Short summary of the book: An extreme drug addict spends his time in a rehab center and slowly heals.
I'm not doing any sort of review that explains the whole premise and plot etc, I'm just voicing my opinions. For this, I might as well add that there might be spoilers.
Finally, I've finished the book.
This is not to say in the least that it was bad; however if your story's setting is only one place - there's only so much you can tell.
The setting is a Rehabilitation Center for the addicted. James being one of them.
James - for me - was peculiar. What I'm trying to say is that I could never have guessed his age was 22. It sounded like years of addiction (which it was) but rustier. I've researched that the book is over-exaggerated for dramatic effect but overall it was a biography of some sort. I predicted false information from all the fights he initiated. The book read as a mid-thirties man. Regardless there were beautiful parts of the book that resonated with me. Such as:
"I think about how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily but the answers don't."It was soothing to read this. I was learning about myself throughout the book.
"For a brief second I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself but strong enough to keep going."There are more brilliant lines but that was all they were in the midst of mud. Gloomy mud - is what I'd describe this book. Thick and full of substance that just took extremely long. The brilliant quotes saved me from yawning. I have already struggled as is just trying to finish what I could.
In the end, the very last page, upon developing relationships with the characters, had given me the biggest shock. I had chills. I guess I'd recommend it to someone who wants to read something that tackles your innermost feelings and asks the questions that needed to be asked however controversial they are.
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