Helpful Score: 3
Julia Latchem-Smith has a very easy way about her and that flows directly into her writing. As hard as it is to read about the life of a child who was abused, in any manner at all, she makes it a lot easier for her readers.
Luckily for Julia, her father has some type of control, granted it wasn't very much, and that makes this book slightly easier to read I think, especially for people unaccustomed to the mis-lit genre.
That out there, it's still very hard because even though the author was never actually raped, the abuse she did take should never, ever happen to anyone, much less a child.
Latchem-Smith's writing is above average I think, especially for a first time writer writing about something so personal as this. She outlines her childhood, her mothers' very extreme OCD, her fathers relationship with her when she was very little and how perfect it was, then she goes on to let readers know how the abuse started when she was around the age of 8.
We get to see how she dealt with everything, how her family managed to deny pretty much everything that was done to her for her entire life, and so much in between.
If someone asked me what book they should start reading in this genre, this would be the one I refered them to. It's not easy by any means, but it'd well written and a little easier to stomach than a lot of others I've read.
I'm not going to go into the outcome because I don't like to use the spoiler feature if I don't have to but we do find out the end result in the book and Latchem-Smith also quickly goes into the volunteer work she got involved in once she started to heal
Luckily for Julia, her father has some type of control, granted it wasn't very much, and that makes this book slightly easier to read I think, especially for people unaccustomed to the mis-lit genre.
That out there, it's still very hard because even though the author was never actually raped, the abuse she did take should never, ever happen to anyone, much less a child.
Latchem-Smith's writing is above average I think, especially for a first time writer writing about something so personal as this. She outlines her childhood, her mothers' very extreme OCD, her fathers relationship with her when she was very little and how perfect it was, then she goes on to let readers know how the abuse started when she was around the age of 8.
We get to see how she dealt with everything, how her family managed to deny pretty much everything that was done to her for her entire life, and so much in between.
If someone asked me what book they should start reading in this genre, this would be the one I refered them to. It's not easy by any means, but it'd well written and a little easier to stomach than a lot of others I've read.
I'm not going to go into the outcome because I don't like to use the spoiler feature if I don't have to but we do find out the end result in the book and Latchem-Smith also quickly goes into the volunteer work she got involved in once she started to heal
