The sympathy and insight you get for others in a position in which you may never find yourself in is huge. I've only recently started reading but I know for a fact that this is going to be one of those novels that stays with me for a very long time. And no matter how successful you may become in life, how intact your life may be, the abuse never truly ends. How their suffering doesn't end when the abuse ends, but it is a continuous struggle throughout their entire lives that not only affects them, but everyone around them. And that is why I really love this book, because it gives you a peak inside the mind of survivors and how they may feel/think. He was sexually abused as a child, and despite being a millionaire, having a beautiful family and surrounded by loved ones at home and on the road when touring, it still wasn't enough to keep his "hyenas" at bay. Especially that of Chester Bennington (and Scott Weiland albeit his death was a drug overdose).
And I couldn't help but think of recent suicides when I read this novel.
No matter how much he was surrounded by loved ones and was treated with love, he still felt like he was undeserving and it was going to go away. How they can feel like it was their fault, how they're forever marked and broken. Beware, it is a really sad book but, I believe, a worthwhile read.īut I truly loved this novel not because of the story, but because of the insight it gives you to victims of sexual abuse. If you're on the fence about reading this book, I strongly recommend it. And despite you knew how it was going to end, how it was screaming at you from the beginning you still couldn't help but feel heartbroken when it happened. How heartbreaking it was to see how Jude felt undeserving of the love he was getting and it'd make you want to just reach out and hug him. But that's part of the reason why I enjoyed it. I read mixed reviews about this book on here, the main complaint being that it's just nonstop continuous suffering.
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