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Above It All
Guilty or innocent? Murder or self-defense? These are the questions Maddie must answer as she goes on trial for the death of her father. Faced with the consequences of her actions, Maddie is now forced to come to grips with everything that happened that fateful night. In the process, she learns more about herself than she thought there was to know.
307 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 4, 2024
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January 1, 2024
This was a compelling story: when it opens, the first-person narrator, eighteen-year-old Maddie, is at the scene of a domestic tragedy. Her father's lover, Harley, has shot Maddie's mother. In retaliation, her father has strangled Harley. And then, fearing for her life, Maddie has stabbed her father to death.
Next thing we know, she's in forced therapy and on trial for murder.
In one of her group therapy sessions, she meets Dean, a handsome young man slightly older than Maddie. They fall in love, and he becomes her rock to help her get through life's challenges. With his help and that of her therapist, Maddie learns to put the past behind and believe in herself.
Unfortunately, the pacing was slowed by all the repetition and over-analyzing internal dialogue; instead of showing us the action scenes, we were told about them repeatedly after the fact.
I think this book would have benefited from a good developmental edit before going to print. The bones are there.
Next thing we know, she's in forced therapy and on trial for murder.
In one of her group therapy sessions, she meets Dean, a handsome young man slightly older than Maddie. They fall in love, and he becomes her rock to help her get through life's challenges. With his help and that of her therapist, Maddie learns to put the past behind and believe in herself.
Unfortunately, the pacing was slowed by all the repetition and over-analyzing internal dialogue; instead of showing us the action scenes, we were told about them repeatedly after the fact.
I think this book would have benefited from a good developmental edit before going to print. The bones are there.
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