Review: `Don't forget to remember me...I'll be back, so remember me...'
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 17, 2011
With age comes wisdom, with motherhood comes nurturing, life is full of choices...good and bad.  Jaydah is the oldest daughter of a single mom that gets caught up in a game of Russian Roulette.  Jaydah's mother finds herself looking to provide her children with a better life by dating a drug dealer that affords them a better way of living.  But there's always a price to pay, nothing is for free.  Her family is exposed to drugs, prostitution, gambling, physical and mental abuse.  When Jaydah's mom is sentenced to prison, she's left holding the reins to her siblings well-being, but how can she save them when she's only a babe herself.16 Years to Life is a dramatic depiction of foolery, disappointment, selfishness, and sacrifice.  When a family is torn apart because of a mother's poor judgment...separation, cruelty, despair, and memories are all these children are left with.  This is an intense storyline that many children have lived, are living, or will live.  I commend the author for showing cause and effect...actions -vs- reactions with family members.  The dialogue and emotions were very vivid, genuine and lucid yet the design of the details proved to be its undoing.  The narration felt more like reading a documentary and did not have a smooth rhythmic flow as it unfolded.  3.68