Synopsis:
Eden was always good at being good. Starting high school didn’t change who she was. But the night her brother’s best friend rapes her, Eden’s world capsizes.
What was once simple, is now complex. What Eden once loved—who she once loved—she now hates. What she thought she knew to be true, is now lies. Nothing makes sense anymore, and she knows she’s supposed to tell someone what happened but she can’t. So she buries it instead. And she buries the way she used to be.
Told in four parts—freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year—this provocative debut reveals the deep cuts of trauma. But it also demonstrates one young woman’s strength as she navigates the disappointment and unbearable pains of adolescence, of first love and first heartbreak, of friendships broken and rebuilt, all while learning to embrace the power of survival she never knew she had hidden within her heart
I thought that this book was good but not great. I felt like the book was drawn out. It would have been easier to get through if I didn't feel like the author was spending so much time on events or choices the main character made that could have been summed up in a few pages. I didn't really like many of the characters in the story and felt that they were not very supportive of Eden. I mean how do so many people not realize that someone is struggling the way that she was. Her actions seemed to make it clear as day. Don't even get me started on her parents, especially her mother. How did these people not see the bruises on her body after the rape takes place!?! Eden was the only character that had any amount of depth. I know that the book was about her but I feel like the other characters should have been a bit more fleshed out.
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