4 Stars
391 Pages
Publisher: Fiction With Meaning LLC, AuthorBuzz
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Genre: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Kidnapping, Torture, Sexual Abuse, Domestic Violence, Sex Trafficking, Drug Usage
Trigger warning: this book contains many difficult themes that could affect some readers.
Eight-year-old Joon lost both of her parents. After being in a temporary shelter, there was an opening at a foster home. Jamie, the social worker, told Joon this was a better option than a group home. When they arrive they are greeted by Aron, the foster mother, and her two sons, Deen and Dobi. Joon has a bad feeling about the situation and tries to tell Jamie with her eyes. She quickly becomes a victim of torture at the hands of her new foster family. She openly wished for death to come for her. At 12 years old, she ran away and met a homeless woman named Ragtop. When Ragtop does not come home one night, she is on her own and homeless again. She meets another young girl, Pringle. Two years later, she is sold to a pimp and Pringle was murdered.
The book had a steady pace, the characters were developed, and it was written in the third person point of view. I must be honest; this was a difficult read.
