Young Katie interprets her fathers "special attention" as his way of showing her how special she is to him. That is, until the day he took his "affection" for her too far, crossing boundaries that never should have been crossed... She has been slowly groomed over time and never considered exposing his unwanted attention to anyone until he starts repeating his grooming technique on her little sister.... For some reason, Amazon killed the original title. Look inside to see former title used.
Great book. Well written. Well read. As someone who was raised in a home with a physical abusive male and a bipolar mother and sexualally abused by many outside the home this hit home.
All little girls love their daddy's . most daddy's love their little girls .some are j ust wrong .and some little girls just know it .. This is her story .
This was a very sad case of abuse. Katie's mother is mentally ill and largely absent and her father is manipulative. He switches between being affectionate and threatening with ease.
I agree with other reviewers that the ending was very ambiguous but I could understand why Katie Lynn didn't feel able to tell anyone. She commented several times through the book about her feelings of incredible shame over what was happening. Confessing that to someone would be very difficult.
Truly a sad story but any abuse case is sad. I felt sorry for the girl and the emotional abuse she went through along with the touching her father did. What I really didn't understand and maybe since it is from her point of view is why she did not confess to someone. Her mother when she returned seemed in the right mind. What happened to Katie after her father was shot?
Though obviously written by an amateur writer, the tale itself is chilling and emotionally charged. Writing it from the perspective of the girl took guts, even if at times it made me squirm in discomfort. The ending was a bit odd, but the story itself was well worth the money.
This book started off great, it was really good until the ending. Although it was a pretty good read, I hate books that end the way this one did. I wouldn't recommend this book to my Friends.
Watching Katie come to terms with what her father was doing and seeing b the way her mind glazed over it to help protect her was absolutely heartbreaking.