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267 pages, Paperback
First published March 7, 2008
I wouldn't exactly say I liked it. What is there to like about someone's else's torture? This book is a detailed and vivid account of Alloma Gilbert, and how her foster mother, Eunice Spry tore her childhood apart, piece by piece.
Even if this would have been a fictional piece, the events in the story would have still filled me with horror but, the fact that this is a true account shakes me to the core. The reader feels Alloma's desolation, fear and helplessness. Alloma grew up in an unstable household. This soon bought her under the radar of Eunice Spry. Alloma's unstable yet happy life turns into a nightmare when she is taken in by Eunice Spry, her foster mother.
From the time she was a mere child to the time she reaches her teens, her life is a nightmare, the kind you never wake up from, the kind where no one hugs you to make the monsters go away. This is like the tale of Hansel and Gretel gone horribly wrong. The children here don't get away. They live through the nightmare, the pain, the fear, the helplessness, the hopelessness that no one is going to come for them, to save them.
In short, it is the story of a survivor which has been narrated in painfully graphic detail.