~ she who reads, is booked every night ~
BOOKED EVERY NIGHT
Review
First let me start off by saying that there are sensitive subjects addressed in this book. This is a book about life and not all of life is rainbows and butterflies. This is a unique, raw, emotionally packed story about addiction, recovery and most of all hope. Hope that no matter how low you go in life, you can always find a way to the light. I had a lot of emotions going through me while I read. It is so well written that I felt what Tegan was going through.
Tegan is a young woman who has been carrying a dark secret for most of her life. It is the burden of this secret that causes her to seek ways to make her feel like she is in control of her life at first and then it is this secret that causes her to find ways to numb herself to everything around her. Tegan ripped my heart out. She is such a lost little girl in the body of an adult. Nobody seems to see this in her. They just see her drug addiction and not that there may be something deep underneath leading her to her addiction.
Asher is someone I still have mixed feelings about. There are times through the book that I loved him and the fact that he was willing to open up about his own issues to help Tegan deal with hers. Then there were times when I wished I could punch him in the face. Asher definitely has issues of his own which come to light through the book. They made me want to hug him and give him comfort when I finally found out.
This book was a hard read for me because there are things that hit close to home but I walked away from the book with a sense of hope. Hope that there is always light at the end of the tunnel even if you can’t see it yet.
“Change brought me him. He brought me strength. My strength brought me hope. And hope will set me free. Maybe change isn’t so bad after all.”
~ Tegan
This book is written between Present and Past and it flows so well. How the author slowly peeled away at the underlining problem of Tegan's addiction was so well done.