Review: Forgive or Blame?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2014
The author gave me a free copy for an honest review.All of the royalties from this book will be going to the Yellow Ribbon Suicide prevention foundation.You can find their page here:[...] .Every book sold will being going to a great cause to help others.There was a beta challenge going around to see if I could make it through the book without crying. I did make it through chapter 2 without a tear. But That is some screwed up s***. I never had to deal with sexual assault but If I had I probably would of been more sensitive to it. But mom would make us food we disliked and made us stay at the table till we fell asleep in it. We refused to eat it and was sent to bed hungry.WoW! Um! I don't know what to say! Amazing emotions and words. I wanted to cry twice but I keep my cool and kept reading!! Very Powerful story!I was confronted with questions asked by the character at the end of his story. They are meant for us to question what we believe..... Could you or would you ever forgive me? Would you blame me had that been my choice in the life time of choices being made for me?The best answer I could give.......Let me see, were to start. Forgiveness is always welcome, but on the other hand if I was a person in the story I don't know how I would feel. In certain case as in the court battle over his son. I have been there and experienced that in my life so of course that was very emotional to me. I did curse my judge out! I was held in contempt till I apologized so I served 5 days. I have never been sexually assaulted so it's hard for me to understand the extent the character is feeling. Ummm...We do make our own choices, no one makes them for us. I don't think he did anything wrong in his life of choices. Unless there is something between the lines I missed or misunderstood. I keep thinking he was over reacting and over thinking to much, put himself into depression. He had no way in knowing that was going to happen in the car. Sometimes others get caught in the cross fire. Even if they chose their original seats the outcome might have been the same. I do believe we all have our own time to go no matter the circumstances. In the end the character did get to know his son, that's what he always wanted and even though he was bound to a wheel chair. That part sucked. Those questions are hard to answer because I believe when peeps read a story they associate their lives with the story and the characters. But I would forgive and not blame.It's hard to put the way I am feeling onto words. Or what I want and am trying to say. The author did a great job capturing what the character was feeling. Mix of emotions painted a perfect picture in my mind. Now I am pouring tears!! Realizing this could be a true story of someones life. Knowing this could happen and not be a story just from the imagination. I don't know what to say...A million things are going through my head!  Sometimes I don't realize what others go through and every now and then we need a wake up call. And be aware of the world around us. We get comfortable and that's when things start to hurt us. We stop paying attention to the world around us. I am so glad Ben offered me the chance to read his book. Thank you :)**The character I mentioned in the story is the author himself** True story!