Review: Intense, Emotional and Raw.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 13, 2013
Lilliana Anderson has really delved into a deep, dark place to write something as shattering, heartbreaking and intense as 'Phoenix: The Beauty in Between.What you experience is a story that sometimes you just can't fathom a person going through but it is so very real and delivered so perfectly that you get to experience the characters intense rollercoaster ride through a life she has no control over and feel every emotion she feels.Through events and decisions that were taken out of her hands Paige loses all her innocence in an extremely short period of time and is forced to do things that no one should be forced to do just to survive. I shed a few tears, I got angry and I sat in complete shock while reading about her journey. This book is short and extremely difficult to put down.Over the cause of the story so many secondary characters enter and exit Paige's life and you really learn to hate them because of what they put her through and how they break the trust that she warily gives a few of them. I felt raw with emotion trying to comprehend how a person has absolutely no one they can trust or rely on, it was heartbreaking.When an momentously devastating event occurs for Paige, she decides it's time to turn her life around and she accepts the help that she needs, even though she struggles with certain aspects. We get to see Paige move forward in a positive direction and succeed in making something of herself.I congratulate Lilliana for creating something so deeply intense but moving at the same time. I don't believe this would have been an easy story to write but she has done an amazing job of telling Paige's story and allowing her reader's to experience Paige's haunting past.4.5 STARS