Review: What a rollercoaster ride...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
**Warning- this book is not for everyone.  There are graphic and gory details associated with rape in the book and mentioned in my review.  Please do not read this review if such topics are ones that you cannot read about.**Wow.  What a ride.This is a book about healing.  Not in the heartbreak kind of way or even in the broken bone sort of way.  This is a book about healing when there is nothing but brokenness inside of you.How do you overcome something that not only changed your life but changed you, physically and mentally, forever?  How do you overcome the pain, fear, and shame that was forced on you by others?  How do you live again when you have no idea why you're still living to begin with?Allyn was raped.  She wasn't just raped by one man, she was raped by 3.  She wasn't just raped.  She was mutilated.  Part of her ear was bit off, her nipple sliced off, numerous bite marks all over her body, her eye was damaged to the point where she can't see correctly out of it, and she's no longer able to conceive.  That is just a summary of the hell that she had to endure.She survived, yet she has no idea why or how.Now, locked in her house day in and day out, she is trying to heal.Dr. Dominic Shriver is a psychiatrist who specializes in patients who have experienced life-altering traumas.  Allyn calls his office one day, needing something more than she's getting from the doctor she has been seeing.What she didn't know when she called him, however, is that she was already starting the process that would save her.Allyn and Dominic's story isn't an easy one.  Allyn is broken - as can be expected.  While she wants to heal, the scars and the voices in her make that hard.Through patience, caring, understanding, and ultimately, love, Dominic is able to help her heal.This book was great.  It was an emotional roller coaster from start to finish.  75% in you will have the biggest "Oh my God" moment ever, that I promise you.  Something so unexpected happens but in a way that makes total sense.There are 4 epilogue's in this book.  Once you read it, you'll understand why. I'd like to thank the author for the first three - they were very much needed and appreciated!This one is a hard book to recommend because I know there are many out there who cannot read books that include rape.  However, if you're able to, please read it.  You will finish that last word with tears in your eyes yet your heart will feel full.I give this one 4 starts and commend Margaret McHeyzer on writing such a touching story.