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A review by tee_tee_lou_lou
Hitting the Wall by Cate C. Wells
5.0
I'm obsessed with Cate's books, her characters, her writing... I can't get enough.
This book was honestly so good. I felt this story down to my bones.
These stories are so real, the feelings are real, messy, and deep. The characters are flawed and interesting, complicated.
Shay is a single mum with her young daughter Mia whom has autism, the way that Cate wrote about her and her autism through Shays eyes was very true, anybody who knows anyone with autism or any disability at all really, especially in children knows that things can be complicated, messy, sometimes hard and upsetting, its all there in this book.
Mia might have been my favourite character in the book.
Kellum was a genuinely good guy, but he was blind to all the poison within the town and his own family, it wasn't entirely his fault as he was a product of his own happy and perfect upbringing he really didnt realise how toxic the people closest to him could be.
He got there in the end, im kind of glad the story was left a little open and unresolved at the end, as it is in real life, things rarely get solved and tied up in a neat little bow, especially when money gives people power.
Im hoping we see things slowly unfold over the next few books, and we can see the muck be slowly removed from the town as the next generation moves up.
This book was honestly so good. I felt this story down to my bones.
These stories are so real, the feelings are real, messy, and deep. The characters are flawed and interesting, complicated.
Shay is a single mum with her young daughter Mia whom has autism, the way that Cate wrote about her and her autism through Shays eyes was very true, anybody who knows anyone with autism or any disability at all really, especially in children knows that things can be complicated, messy, sometimes hard and upsetting, its all there in this book.
Mia might have been my favourite character in the book.
Kellum was a genuinely good guy, but he was blind to all the poison within the town and his own family, it wasn't entirely his fault as he was a product of his own happy and perfect upbringing he really didnt realise how toxic the people closest to him could be.
He got there in the end, im kind of glad the story was left a little open and unresolved at the end, as it is in real life, things rarely get solved and tied up in a neat little bow, especially when money gives people power.
Im hoping we see things slowly unfold over the next few books, and we can see the muck be slowly removed from the town as the next generation moves up.