Even though Eden makes a lot of bad choices, she ends up hurting a lot of the people trying to help her, trying to understand why she is the way she is because she does not tell anyone what happened to her. She can captivate you, keep your attention, and immerse you in the story. You can see that she is incredibly talented, and she has a way with words. She ends up pushing the people that love her away from her.Īmber Smith’s writing style is gorgeous in this book. It follows her through her bad choices, and she makes a lot of bad ones. She’s trying to understand why it happened and how can someone she knows, someone she trusts, do this to her? It follows the aftermath of that assault. It starts with her freshman year when the assault happens, and it goes all the way to her senior year.Įden does not tell anyone what happens, mostly because she’s trying to wrap her head around what happened. However, her entire life changes the night when her brother’s best friend Kevin rapes her. So she has a typical average normal life, and she is 14 years old. She has a great relationship with her older brother and his loving parents. The story is about Eden, and Eden is a typical average good girl. The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith is an emotionally charged novel that focuses on the aftermath of a traumatic event and its profound impact on the protagonist’s life.
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