Aphrodite Matsakis

Received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

As a person who is married to a PTSD survivor and as a PTSD survivor myself, I knew this was one book I wanted a chance to review, and am thankful the Publishers decided to allow me to do so.

This book uses examples throughout to help illustrate what it is trying to say. I believe it is what keeps this from being a dry, text book read.

I found it helpful in many ways, and the author gives us a bit of homework to do at times, such as writing down things that can be helpful to remember as you try to love a survivor with PTSD. It isn't easy, loving us. We often have some emotion problems that cause our loved ones to question if we love them at all.

My biggest problem with this book is something that is in the publishers hands, not the author's. The formatting of the book. Like a number of books I have been reviewing for NetGalley, the publisher appears to have taken the Print ARC and stuck it into a file and labled it a digital ARC...except that's not what it is. It becomes a hot mess when you do this. While not as horrible as several other books I have just reviewed, or am reading now, it makes it difficult at times to read this book.

Loving Someone with PTSD has so much to offer the reader, that the publisher needs to take the time to have a proper Digital ARC created for reviewers, so that we have one less thing to count against a book. Formatting matters, it affects who easily we can actually read the book you have put in our hands.… (mer)