A review by teatime_with_a_book
Never Ever Tell by Kirsty Ferguson

4.0

Trigger warning, abuse, addiction, rape, suicide.
Holy moly this was such an intense vivid read, very descriptive narrative, not for the faint of heart.
I always find books which such intense topics hard to review.
The authors writing style was able to suck me right into the storyand i quickly became addicted and emersed in the story and could not put it down. Through her vivid descriptions of events that occurred the character developed was also very well executed. I could feel the pain, sorrow, and hardships that the vanessa, the main character faced in the fight to escape the life with her abusive husband. It was very interesting to see how her story evolved once she got out of the house and how the abuse continued to appear and disrupt her life.
In the second part of the story we got to find a little more about her son's life, and the events that lead up to some huge tragedys that shock the vanessa to the core, where she made it her mission to get to the bottom of what happened to those two teenagers to get to the devastating place they both ended up.
You could see family was always Vanessa's main concern but at what costs to her current life can see endure.
This was such a hard read, but you were able to see how beaten this women was and how she put her kids and family always above her needs.