Review: True to it's title
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2013
Stubborn Love is definitely true to it's title. In more ways than one.This book is incredible, even if I did want to throttle Emmie more times than I wanted to hug her. But really, it's more than that. This book takes a subject as touchy as suicide, and it plays up the side of it that not many people see. The guilt that the survivor(s) carries. I can relate to that on a very personal level, so I understood where Emmie was and what she was going through. Carrying that guilt isn't an easy thing to do, and to have it thrown back into your face just when you're beginning to pick up the pieces... Well, that's even harder.Ultimately, Stubborn Love is about faith, acceptance, healing, and understanding. It's about continuing to move forward when the world around you stops spinning. It's about letting go of the pain and accepting the comfort of someone else's embrace.I won't pretend to know how Ms. Owens knows what it's like to carry around the burden of that type of guilt, but even if she doesn't know it personally, you wouldn't know that by reading this book. It's executed flawlessly, and I absolutely loved it. A definite five star read.