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It Emptied Us
Tim and his best friend Andy are survivors. Tim's mom left him when he was three and Andy's dad has just passed away. They are bonded by the tragedy of losing a parent and also their love of football. The twins, Donna and Bobby Wilson, have just moved into Tim and Andy's town. Like Tim and Andy, the twins are gifted athletes. However, they have a dark family secret that they hope to conceal. Tim develops a relationship with Donna while Bobby and Andy become embroiled in the vortex of drug and alcohol use. As Tim and Donna's relationship grows stronger, the three families must deal with the toxins of loss and violence. These poisons come out when the four friends become seniors and captains of their teams. Will their tragedies destroy the teams they play for and the town they love?
232 pages, Paperback
Published May 24, 2019
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August 3, 2020
After reading It Emptied Us by Rick Collins I had to walk away and regroup. I went and played a game on Facebook until my mind settled.
It Emptied Us is a story that veers off in a lot of different intense directions. You have a story about a mom and her two children who run away from an abusive husband and father. You have a father and son who were left by a wife and mother. You have a mother and three sons who lost their husband and father to a massive heart attack. You have a high school football team who adore their coach. You have conflict among players of a high school football team. You have a father who is the coach of a high school football team and his son who is a player on the team. You have a girl and a boy in high school experiencing their first real relationship. You have a story about a brother and sister. You have high school athletes and the strain they experience playing a sport not wanting to let their coach, school, and community down. You have friends and their struggles with themselves, their friends and school and their town. You have drugs and alcohol and the struggle to fit in.
Even though you have so much going on within the words on the pages you are far from lost. Collins pulls the reader in instantly and you are hopeless in stopping. Readers will want to know what is going to happen. Once you start reading you are introduced to Donna, Bobby and their mother. Donna and Bobby are twins so they have an unbreakable bond and readers witness that through the story. And when you are introduced to Tim and Coach Joe, you see that they also have an unbreakable relationship. And when Donna and Tim get together, you know that they will also have an unbreakable bond.
It Emptied Us is more than a story about teens and high school and football. It is about commitment, strength, unbreakable bonds, love, loss, courage and devotion. And when readers get to a certain part in the story you will think that you know where the story is heading and you will prepare yourself for what is going to happen......HOWEVER Collins does not take you down that road. NO WAY !! It's like he knows that is what you are thinking so he decides to take you down a much darker, less traveled road.....and I can tell you... there is no way to prepare for what he has in store for you. My best advise to you is to buckle up, sit back, and brace for impact.......
It Emptied Us is going to leave it's mark on readers and leave you with a scar ...... and it is so worth it !!!!
It Emptied Us is a story that veers off in a lot of different intense directions. You have a story about a mom and her two children who run away from an abusive husband and father. You have a father and son who were left by a wife and mother. You have a mother and three sons who lost their husband and father to a massive heart attack. You have a high school football team who adore their coach. You have conflict among players of a high school football team. You have a father who is the coach of a high school football team and his son who is a player on the team. You have a girl and a boy in high school experiencing their first real relationship. You have a story about a brother and sister. You have high school athletes and the strain they experience playing a sport not wanting to let their coach, school, and community down. You have friends and their struggles with themselves, their friends and school and their town. You have drugs and alcohol and the struggle to fit in.
Even though you have so much going on within the words on the pages you are far from lost. Collins pulls the reader in instantly and you are hopeless in stopping. Readers will want to know what is going to happen. Once you start reading you are introduced to Donna, Bobby and their mother. Donna and Bobby are twins so they have an unbreakable bond and readers witness that through the story. And when you are introduced to Tim and Coach Joe, you see that they also have an unbreakable relationship. And when Donna and Tim get together, you know that they will also have an unbreakable bond.
It Emptied Us is more than a story about teens and high school and football. It is about commitment, strength, unbreakable bonds, love, loss, courage and devotion. And when readers get to a certain part in the story you will think that you know where the story is heading and you will prepare yourself for what is going to happen......HOWEVER Collins does not take you down that road. NO WAY !! It's like he knows that is what you are thinking so he decides to take you down a much darker, less traveled road.....and I can tell you... there is no way to prepare for what he has in store for you. My best advise to you is to buckle up, sit back, and brace for impact.......
It Emptied Us is going to leave it's mark on readers and leave you with a scar ...... and it is so worth it !!!!
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