Review: This is a story about a family that is raw with shades of love, hate, grief, rage and redemption.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 13, 2013
Pulling Me Under is a story that will unsettle you. It will rattle your emotions. Only the most raw of emotions, only the most brutal truths can really shake you at your core. Pulling Me Under is all of the above. This is not a story about a picture-perfect family and cookie-cut characters. This is a story about a family that is raw with shades of love, hate, grief, rage and redemption. In the prequel, Precise, you met Katie. But in Pulling Me Under, Katie slips under your skin and challenges you to feel the raw emotion of brutal truths. This story will have your heart in your throat. It is a tour-de-force of emotion and the joys and pains of love: lost love, romantic love, maternal love and family love. You forget this is a story as Katie and her family and friends come alive for you. You will want to embrace Katie from what life has in store for her but you will also want her to find the life she needs and wants. She is that character you want to pull through and have triumph. You will keep turning every page just to see what happens next. This is that rare novel: the one you forget has been imagined by an author. Rebecca Berto proves she has nothing to prove with this story. The story speaks loud enough for her. Pulling Me Under will pull at your humanity and the rawest but most truthful part of yourself. Pulling Me Under will challenge you to not take family, friends and love for granted. Prepare to be pulled under by Pulling Me Under.