The way she loses her old self and emerges anew broken and in pain and desperately trying to build herself an armor around her person as her first line of defense and a wall around her heart as the final line of defense. You will experience with her, the way she changes and grows with each chapter. I realized after a second (more prepared and also distanced) read that the way it’s written effectively allows you to experience Eden’s ‘present’, which includes her emotions, her experiences and her thoughts. The one thing that stood out most to me was how this book evoked so many emotions from me. Instead, view it as a reiteration-a reminder because the world needs as many it can get.
McElderry BooksĪlthough there is no lack of stories about a white girl who got raped, it’s aftermath and the way rape victims are treated, Amber Smith’s The Way I Used to Be shouldn’t been seen as another ‘typical’ or ‘expected’ or ‘cliche’ fictional account.
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