taranthind 's review for:

The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith
5.0

highlights:

“He looks disappointed—I’m not playing right. I’m supposed to make up some cute thing I want more than anything in the world. And then he’s supposed to spin me a web of bullshit about all the ways he could make that thing happen. Of course, he couldn’t. And I wouldn’t. So, we’re left to our own devices.”

“I don’t know who I am right now. But I know who I’m not. And I like that.”

“But I don’t feel better, I feel empty, empty and broken, still.
And alone. More alone than ever before.”