Review: A story with so much potential
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2014
Lacey, a high school drop out, working 2 dead end jobs.  She lives with her mother, younger brother and grandmother in a trailer park.  Lacey is treated horribly by her grandmother and her mother does nothing to prevent it.  Her grandmother takes almost all the money she earns and in return Lacey just receives more abuse.  Lacey is caught up in a bad relationship with Macon who abuses her physically, mentally, emotionally and sexually.  Lacey feels so down about herself that she just accepts all this abuse coming from everyone.  Feeling she deserves all of it.  She manages to break up with Macon and he proceeds to stalk her.  Then one day she meets Everett and everything seems to change for her overnight.  After Lacey questions some bruises she finds on her younger brother and speaks with his teacher she is terrorized by her grandmother and kicked out of her home.  She runs to Everett and he saves the day.  At this point Macon seems to disappear from the scene and shows back up later on in the story.  It seemed to me that the whole scene with Macon was just to try to add some action to story and served no other purpose.What I didn't get about this story is the fact that the little boy is being abused by his mother and/or his grandmother and Lacey really doesn't do much about it until the very end of the story.  After she becomes involved with Everett it seems that she forgets that she is worried about her little brother's safety and well being.  What is that all about?For me, this is what changed this story into a 2.5 star rather then the 4 star it would have been if Lacey had not been so self involved and spent more energy into protecting her little brother rather then becoming involved in another sexual relationship.