As someone who is learning about the enabling and abusive cycle of parents I cried so much in this book. The expectations of parents and the reality of watching your parent, someone you love and know, have survived harrowing trauma with their partner and still know that you deserve better is hard. Extremely hard. Especially when it comes from the people who were supposed to love you unconditionally. 

Abby has redeemed herself as an author for me. I wasn’t a huge fan of her writing in her previous series. Ur oh how she has grown ! I mean, she captured character development SO WELL. I even cried at Neil’s part, like — I wanted healing for him in the end! The telephone scene between Alexis and Daniel was HEARTWRENCHING, I felt myself getting choked up so much for these characters who were experience intense grief and intense love simultaneously and I just. I smiled and I felt and I felt like I was in Walsh with these lovely humans and their lives. 

I loved Alexis’s journey to freedom and reconciling herself to her need an and her wants and desires and dreams. That was the most beautiful part of this story for me.