Review: Heart-wrenching and honest
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2013
I was given a copy of this book in exchange for a review.As I read this book I was so curious to know what was going on with Ryan. I could just imagine how crazy it drove Liliana. I was so glad once Lili and Ryan got together yet I CONSTANTLY kept wondering what his deal was. As the story read on it started becoming evident what that something was and I was just so sad and hurt for him. Reading through the attempt of suicide when Lili first met him and then why he was in such pain and that his haunting nightmares were due to his uncle's sexual abuse to him when he was 10. I was so sad. I teared up. This was very hard to read because this touched home for me, it is something that my family also faces issues with so I understand how hard it can be for someone to deal with this type of abuse, let alone being a man.Another big part of my love for this book was Javi, Lili's son. Him being autistic and the parts where she is so sad and just wants to be able to touch her son and love him killed me. I cried at each of these parts. When Ryan took Lili and Javi ice skating and Javi actually grabbed Ryan's hand and Lili had to run to the bathroom crying because she was so mad that it was Ryan, and not her that Javi had touched first KILLED me. I am tearing up thinking about that pain and as a mother, understand how heart wrenching that moment was for her.I have read other reviews and several people mention this story being dark. I do not agree. I think that when taken into context, as a whole, this book sheds so much LIGHT and PEACE and HOPE on these kinds of crime. Sexual abuse and suicide are not to be taken lightly. Ryan and Lili's story shows us that there CAN be light at the end. There CAN be a semblance of peace and there is ALWAYS, always hope and love out there for us. This shows the true struggle of love and acceptance on both Lili as well as Ryan's part. Keep in mind, they married and are now expecting a little on. They found their LIGHT, PEACE, and HOPE. :)