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Laddar... Open Woundsav Brandon Ford
Ingen/inga Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.  TheTrueBookAddict | Mar 23, 2020 |   I wouldn’t necessarily call this a horror book, it’s more along the lines of a tragedy. Kate’s life has never been easy, but she learns how easy it is for it to always get worse, because it does always get worse. After the divorce of her parents, she tries to tell herself that her new home will be a fresh start. Then her mother meets Grady, and Kate’s life spirals down into abuse and fear. Her only relief comes from cutting. This is a book that will make you ugly cry for sure. It’s easy to feel sorry for Kate because her life is never easy. The author handled the delicate situations in this book in a very real, very concrete manner. It’s sad to think there are girls forced to suffer lives like that, and this is one of those types of fiction stories that makes you really think about the world and people in it. For all the darkness in the story, I loved the end of the book and felt like it gave the piece a bit of hope, a bit of closure. A little bit of light at the end of the tunnel. I was so captivated by the story that I had to finish it in a day because once I started, I didn’t want to stop until I heard how it ended. This is definitely not a story for the faint of heart, but for those who can handle difficult topics, it is worth a listen. The narration was well done, giving a gentle edge to these not-so-gentle topics. This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review. (  ) Kayla.Krantz | Feb 14, 2020 |
 I had issues with this book. I'm just going to start with that. I'm glad I had issues with it, I'll be up front with that as well. This was a powerful book and I wasn't expecting that. It took me places, that frankly i didn't want to go. But like Kate, I had little choice. I couldn't make it stop nor could I turn away. Kate Montgomery was fourteen years old in 1981. She lived in L.A. with her parents until her father's gambling addiction and poor decisions takes its ultimate toll on the family. The resulting divorce places her in a car with her mother going to her mother's home town of Philadelphia. She isn't thrilled to be there but tries to make the best of it. Hard to love grandparents and few friends don'tt make things easier. Her one solace was a leather-bound diary which become the most important thing to her. The worst was only yet to come as Kate's life quickly begins to unravel and the darkness in her life only compounds on itself. One by one the people in her life either abandon her or push her away. She finds a new way to push all the horror in her life momentarily aside. The blade on her soft flesh slices only the once before she finds in it a moments euphoria. Keeping a small paring knife handy, her way of escape leaves scars. As disturbing as it is powerful, Open Wounds refused to let me put it down. I admit that some of the most difficult parts for me was when Kate put knife to skin. It wasn't the knife slicing the flesh of her arms and thighs that disturbed me the most, it was confronting my own memories of doing the same thing when I was younger. My own life did not mirror hers but those feelings of hopeless frustration are universal. The only difference is degree. I wasn't expecting that, nor was I expecting the unflinching journey that the characters in this novel walked either. Well written and engrossing, I cannot recommend Open Wounds enough. This is certainly a must read. Ingår i förlagsserien
The first cut brings a wave of calm that immediately washes over her. The second, an incomparable bliss. The third, euphoria in its purest, most absolute form.A twisted and often unsettling glimpse into the mind of an unwitting victim, OPEN WOUNDS tells the story of a young girl's battle to maintain her safety and sanity after she is preyed upon by a savage predator. She finds only the slightest comfort in scrawling the details of her horrific tale onto the pages of a leatherbound diary. But when her living nightmare becomes more than she can bear, the only comfort she finds is beneath the blade of a paring knife. Night after night, she slices into her own tender flesh, while praying for some escape from a world filled with anguish and torment. Before long, those leatherbound pages are dripping with crimson and soon, open wounds become ripples of scar tissue. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The story is set in 1981. I was thirteen that year and I am so thankful I did not have to endure what Kate did. Ford was smart setting the story in this era because these kinds of abuse were even less recognized back then. Often, if a girl told what was happening, no one would even believe her. We're seeing this come out in the present time...that abuses were going on back then and no one believed.
I'll be honest. This story is very dark. I sometimes found it hard to continue because it was so disturbing and distressing. Plus, I listened to the audio book which made it even more real. The young voice of the reader made it seem like Kate was really relating the story. I had to keep listening though. I had to know how it would all end.
I love stories that draw me in, while still teaching a lesson along the way. I warn again...it's very dark, and those who are triggered by stories containing subjects of abuse and self-harm should probably avoid. For others, read it. Learn why it's so important to believe when someone tells you something bad is happening to them. If they're lying, fine, but if they're not, you just might save a life. (