Smith, Amber The Way
I Used to Be, 367 pgs. Margaret K.
McElderry Books, 2016 (Simon and Schuster).
$17.99 Content: Language: R (138
swears; 120 “F”); Mature Content: R; Violence: R.
Eden is a good fourteen-year-old girl until
the night her college-aged brother’s best friend rapes her. Because the best friend is loved by her
family and her brother, Eden thinks nobody will believe her and keeps it a
secret. Over time the secret eats at
Eden and she loses who she is and her place in her family. Although good people come into her life, she
can’t cope with the good or the bad and unless she can get help she will
destroy herself.
This is a heartbreaking
emotional read about rape. Eden’s
survival story is not pretty and is hard to read, but it seems realistic. The content is rated R across the board for
casual sex, sexual relationship between a 14 and 18 year old, underage drinking
and drug use, intense and upsetting rape, and description of
dismemberment.
PUBLIC ONLY Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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