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Aug 21, 2018AnneCarolineDrake rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This book should probably be required reading by every girl and her parents before she goes on her first date. We've all seen quicksand moments in movies, and it is an apt description for an abusive relationship. We can be in awe of the sand on a beach or in a desert and not notice it is quicksand until we are in too deep to escape without help. The book presents the inextricable links between self-absorbed, narcissistic (a/k/a neglectful) parents' giddy euphoria over their daughter's relationship with the school's top jock or wealthy boy, child abuse, dating abuse/sexual assault, and shooting rampages. Almost all shooting rampages are rooted in domestic violence and/or child abuse with the perpetrator killing family members first. The first chapters of this book should have been edited down to a few pages, but it eventually picks up and becomes an intriguing story. It is quite thought-provoking and unsettling. The main character asks hard questions that many adults may not want to acknowledge or answer.