Review: I cried and cried!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 17, 2013
This book literally rips your heart out, right from the beginning you are emotionally involved in the rape of a young innocent girl. Mia is a strong maturing young lady, her father is a politician and her mother a French actress. They are uninvolved in her life, she is the youngest of all the children. When she goes to a party and is raped we literally live her moments, her anxiety, her bewilderment that this has happened to her and her sense of abandonment that she feels. Her father only acknowledges her if he can use her story for better poll results, her mother is in rehab, and keeps telling Mia that she will be there in a few days, but never comes through for her.Mia is blessed with a close friend Ari, and she along with several others help Mia on her journey, I can't stress enough the emotional journey this story took me on. I usually read feel good books, romance etc. but this book demands your full attention, and makes you confront uncomfortable memories which you would rather never review. I think it is imperative that if you have children you read this story, if you have sons,so you can insure they know the impact rape has on the victims. If you have daughters, you need to read this to understand that we would never want to re victimize our child by not standing by them. I highly recommend this story, some thought it was too short, it really wasn't, I think the author and editor made the perfect balance in the length. Some stories need to simmer with us to truly have a lasting impression.*ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*