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A review by books4biana
Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland by Amanda Berry
3.0
Okay...spoiler alert: they get rescued. And not because of any work on the part of the investigators, but because Amanda Berry got very very brave and opened a door that hadn't been opened in over a decade.
I remember this tale as it played out in the media. I felt this great sense of shock and frustration that ANOTHER tale of abduction happened. I had just finished reading Elizabeth Smart's tale and she was gone for 18 months...but these gals was like 11 years!
I started reading one of the other books about this same event and found it significantly less interesting. This one actually felt real. It was a horrific event, but the book wasn't filled with the train wreck of trauma. I don't need to read the play by play but I don't want to dismiss her suffering either. I believe this took a nice middle ground.
The reason it didn't get 5 stars? It was written by novices who didn't graduate high school (or junior high in one case). That's not a reflection on them, because it was good and sincere. It just wasn't blockbuster material.
I remember this tale as it played out in the media. I felt this great sense of shock and frustration that ANOTHER tale of abduction happened. I had just finished reading Elizabeth Smart's tale and she was gone for 18 months...but these gals was like 11 years!
I started reading one of the other books about this same event and found it significantly less interesting. This one actually felt real. It was a horrific event, but the book wasn't filled with the train wreck of trauma. I don't need to read the play by play but I don't want to dismiss her suffering either. I believe this took a nice middle ground.
The reason it didn't get 5 stars? It was written by novices who didn't graduate high school (or junior high in one case). That's not a reflection on them, because it was good and sincere. It just wasn't blockbuster material.