Review: What 'guys' don't typically talk or write about...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2013
'From the Abyss' invites the reader to join author John Augustine in a story worth retelling. Although I've never met the author, I am all too familiar with the circusmtances described in this story telling. As a 'guy', Augustine writes about stuff 'guys' don't typically talk or write about. Quite daring really ... At first, I wasn't sure about this read. I was asking myself 'Do I want to read about stressed relationships from a guy's point of view?' And then, the author won this 'guy' over with literal, realistic story lines and statements, for example, "I wanted to be the guy who was different; who would be there to help-"  and  "... could have noticed something wrong..."  And then it happened for this reader ... I couldn't finish the book ... I couldn't get close to those circumstances again... because he'd nailed it through the first chapters I'd read.  I knew he'd lived it. My pause from this read is for  me ... I give this read Five Stars, because I know Augustine is sharing that which needs to be shared... I just didn't need the gift. I already experienced walking on eggshells enough to know. In this day and age of computers, texting and gaming, youth needs as much lessoning about relationships ('good' and 'bad') as possible. I therefore recommend this book if you (or someone near you) wants to know what can, and does really happen, more often than you will prayfully never know... G Mitchell Baker, Author "The Innocents" and D.V.M. (Lethal Believers Series, MKSP 2013)