The Strong Within Us (The Olason Chronicles #2)
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Wonderland
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A Thousand Pardons
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Ben and Helen Armstead have reached breaking point. Once a privileged and loving couple, widely...
My Pulse (Town of Broward #1)
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For single mom Tristan Maddox, moving to the small town of Broward, Georgia is the opportunity she...
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Sky in the Deep
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Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient,...
ClareR (5906 KP) rated Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? in Books
Dec 17, 2022
I loved all the Nigerian culture, and I feel as though I’ve learnt a lot.
The relationship between Yinka and her friends was a bit puzzling at times, and she seemed to struggle to relate to them - and I think that may have been because she was struggling with her mental health, as well as the cultural expectations. Hence Yinka’s pressing need to find a date for her friends wedding (which sounds spectacular, by the way!).
I loved how Yinka grew up as a person as this book went on, and how the ending showed that this was a long term process.
Recommended!
Stone Blind
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'So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call...
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The Sight of Heather
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For centuries, the fae folk and spae women of Scotland were feared – and persecuted. Life in...
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They Came At Night
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In the five years since the fateful and horrific night that changed her life, Sandra Leigh has kept...
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Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated A Deep Dark Secret in Books
May 10, 2018
Jillian Mitchell was 7 years old when her step-father started to molest her. It was one of the happiest and saddest days of her life. The day her baby sister, Layla, was born.
The abuse continued for 5 years. Starting with touching and escalating to oral sex and naked pictures. Byron, her step-father told her that if she told anyone, they wouldn't believe her and that they would blame her. And that if she wasn't going to do it, then he would get her little sister(who is now 5) to do it.
Jillian lived with this secret and never told anyone, not even her closest friend. When an incident at school, leads Jillian to find out she is not the only one in this situation, she finds the courage to stand up to her step-father (who she thought of as her real father from the beginning) and get him out of her life for good!
This is a great book and helps us understand that effects that abuse can have on children and their life as adults. Everyone handles it differently and more need to know that it is alright to speak out about it. I believe that if more children were not afraid to tell the secret, then we would have a lot less abuse out there and the cycles of teenage pregnancy and suicide would decrease.