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A review by mlarick
Who She Was by Stormy Smith
5.0
i loved this book and everything it stood for.
first of all: i love the cover. it immediately jumped out at me, and was why i picked the book up in the first place.
trying not to spoil for others, but i enjoyed the separate perspectives and their different healing processes.
as someone that lives in iowa, it was bizarre but fun to be able recognize different places in the state and easily visualize everything.
suicide & abuse are always topics that make me very emotional, and this book portrayed everything in a such an accurate and real way that i couldn't help but shed a few tears. another aspect i loved was that there was no real romance or one person "fixing" the other. of course, the two protagonists helped each other in their separate journeys, but the majority of the healing happened by one character focusing on them, and only them. the characters sorted through their problems alone, with the support of the others, which i found much more realistic than other books.
the writing was truly beautiful, and this book has become one of my favorites.
first of all: i love the cover. it immediately jumped out at me, and was why i picked the book up in the first place.
trying not to spoil for others, but i enjoyed the separate perspectives and their different healing processes.
as someone that lives in iowa, it was bizarre but fun to be able recognize different places in the state and easily visualize everything.
suicide & abuse are always topics that make me very emotional, and this book portrayed everything in a such an accurate and real way that i couldn't help but shed a few tears. another aspect i loved was that there was no real romance or one person "fixing" the other. of course, the two protagonists helped each other in their separate journeys, but the majority of the healing happened by one character focusing on them, and only them. the characters sorted through their problems alone, with the support of the others, which i found much more realistic than other books.
the writing was truly beautiful, and this book has become one of my favorites.