Review: Powerful message!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 3, 2013
This book really hit home with me. Being someone who was tormented by bullies all throughout High School. I identified with some of what Alex went through, as no bullying experience is the same for anyone I know I didn't go through things to the extent that he did but I was looking for the same end result as he did. Thankfully I had the support group I needed and I wasn't afraid to talk about it. This story takes you through the Journey of Dee Dee as she learns to cope with life after her brother's death.Dee Dee is still tormented with the images of her brother at his death and with the thoughts of what brought him to that point. She is incased and hidden inside her shell of despair and pain to keep people from getting close. She hasn't truly faced her demons or learned to cope with what she saw and lived through.Cameron is going through the motions of living. He can't get what he caused off of his mind. Nor what he lost, Everything. He had such a bright future but peer pressure and the need to fit in ruined it all. Now he is trying to get some semblance of his former self back. When he gets put to work with the girl he irrevocably hurt he doesn't know what to do. Trying to come back from the edge is so difficult. Could he do it?This book addressed how bullying not only effects the person being tormented, but also family, friends, the bully themselves, the community and sometimes even the Nation. One wrong choice can change everything......for everyone. 5/5