Thank you to Netgalley and Convergent books for the eARC!

Once or twice the stories got repetitive in the beginning. Chapters were a little too long for my taste.

This is very dark and depressing, you just want to hug the author for all the shit her parents put her through and how they treated her. Trent is a better person than me because I wouldn’t have been as forgiving if these were my parents.

I appreciated the author’s honesty and vulnerability in sharing her struggles! The writing was atmospheric and reminded me of my midwestern childhood in Michigan. I don’t love rating memoirs because this is someone’s personal story so my rating reflects the writing style not the content. 

TW/CW: drug use, mental illness (schizophrenia, depression, and personality disorder), neglect, child abuse, violence, animal cruelty, animal death, anxiety, suicide attempts, suicide, toxic parents, eating disorder, addiction, alcoholism