Review: True Eye Opener for someone that has never experienced nor seen a drug detoxt.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2013
I have to admit I believe this is the first book that took a deep inside view of a drug user and his recovery, including detox.  And it was not a pretty picture. The closest I've ever experienced anything like it myself is the few times I've been pregnant trying to stop my habit of caffeine, or the multiple times I've stopped drinking alcohol. Admittedly those detox's were nothing compared to what a street drug users goes through I according to the novel.I admit that I would have given up on Sterling during his detox, so I had no problem when "Phoenix" (as you'll come to know Victoria by) walks out on him when Sterling uses again 1 time a month into being clean. I believe her finally walking away from him that night and ignoring him for a full month after saved Sterling in every way possible.Sterling did start using because even as he admits he felt like somebody while he had the high. He didn't feel like a piece of nothing that was hopeless, which it what his own father repeatedly beat into him that he was.I truly enjoyed how the other describes in Sterling's words that when he finally decided to get clean and stay clean it was a day by day process he had to tell himself today will be better than yesterday. He used the old cliche of "one day at a time".I don't think anyone could have had their love tested like Phoenix did and not want to give up, but in the end she decided to let him back into her life, to prove that today will be better than yesterday.I'd highly recommend this book, especially if you have no idea what a drug user has to go through to get clean. It will open your eyes, especially to forgiveness for those around you that seem to fail at staying clean. Awesome eye opening book.