Review: "Loss like those I suffered rip holes in your soul that don’t heal. This much I promise you to be true."
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2014
This is a non fiction short story. I would recommend this book to anyone, especially someone who might need some direction. I started this book not knowing how I would be able to write a review on someones true but devastating life story. But I was drawn in from the first page. Benjamin Daniels has put these heart wrenching memories into words, at times imperfectly edited but it doesn't take away from the story. This book is not to written for any reason other than to tell of this little boys heartache, and to explain there are choices, to let life bring you down along with your troubles or you can survive. There is a lot of sadness, grief and some situations you wish you would have never read in the book but in the end you will have learned from it.This is a true story about a little boy, from his childhood as he grows into an adult. All of his tragic memories. He was handed hard life lessons at an very early age, some he would have to learn from sooner than later. He experiences what some of us only have nightmares about. As he enters adulthood he has choices to make. To allow his grief, his anger, his problems, to rob him of his future or he can survive.I found two passages that touched me:" My Irish Grandmother had an old saying “If you walk before you crawl, you will crawl before you die.” These are wise words.""Loss like those I suffered rip holes in your soul that don’t heal. This much I promise you to be true."