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msoul13's review
4.0
NOTE: I won a free eBook copy of this book in MOBI format from LibraryThing's Early Reviewers (June 2020).
I am still in disbelief that this was a memoir and not a "novel," because it read like the latter. The book proper opens in medias res, and readers are left to decipher what happened along with the narrator. The flashbacks between the hospital scenes and the years of the author's marriage work to keep the reader in suspense. As the truth is revealed, the story grows a bit more surreal. Lee's memoir of abuse details the sacrifices that many women make in their lives and the mixed results that occur when they take to overcome them.
I am still in disbelief that this was a memoir and not a "novel," because it read like the latter. The book proper opens in medias res, and readers are left to decipher what happened along with the narrator. The flashbacks between the hospital scenes and the years of the author's marriage work to keep the reader in suspense. As the truth is revealed, the story grows a bit more surreal. Lee's memoir of abuse details the sacrifices that many women make in their lives and the mixed results that occur when they take to overcome them.
ashley__reads's review
2.0
This story was all over the place, I couldn’t keep the timelines straight and I just did not connect with the writing.
our_bookish_reads's review against another edition
challenging
slow-paced
2.0
This is a pretty crazy and messed up book and I normally love that, even if it isn't fiction, but this was written in such an odd manner that I couldn't focus on it very well.
cheryllangley's review
5.0
I thought the book was written very well. I enjoyed how it went back and forth between the past and the present. It is hard to imagine how one person can endure so much in just one lifetime.
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