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Facing the Future
A true story of Kevin Slater's life growing up in foster and care homes. Kevin was born in Liverpool (Huyton).
240 pages, Paperback
Published February 26, 2009
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June 16, 2013
Facing the Future reads like a stream-of-consciousness of an abused child. If that was the goal, bravo! If not, or even if that was the goal, it could use some major editing. It's ramblings, typos and lack of grammar, make it difficult to stick with. For instance, one block mentions a woman named Mandy and besides one other statement never mentions her again:
"She moved house and had a house warming party, my god it was like feeding the 5,000. It was like an off license with the alcohol, Mandy doesn’t do things by halves ha-ha."
The book is made up entirely of passages like that, which was very hard to follow. As I said it seems like a child wrote it, but the author says he's 42. I had to force myself to keep reading, because I did want to see that things worked out for him. Still, I felt like a driver who'd seen a terrible car accident and doesn't look away: ashamed.
The end, like the rest of the book, rambles, leaving me unsure about the purpose of the book. Perhaps he wanted to put everything out there as if it were therapy. I don't want to be cruel, but this book is probably of no interest to anyone who is not related to the author. I didn't get the sense that the writer had come to terms with any of his experiences, that he hoped to help others, or that writing the book even helped his own outlook. So I would not recommend this book to anyone.
"She moved house and had a house warming party, my god it was like feeding the 5,000. It was like an off license with the alcohol, Mandy doesn’t do things by halves ha-ha."
The book is made up entirely of passages like that, which was very hard to follow. As I said it seems like a child wrote it, but the author says he's 42. I had to force myself to keep reading, because I did want to see that things worked out for him. Still, I felt like a driver who'd seen a terrible car accident and doesn't look away: ashamed.
The end, like the rest of the book, rambles, leaving me unsure about the purpose of the book. Perhaps he wanted to put everything out there as if it were therapy. I don't want to be cruel, but this book is probably of no interest to anyone who is not related to the author. I didn't get the sense that the writer had come to terms with any of his experiences, that he hoped to help others, or that writing the book even helped his own outlook. So I would not recommend this book to anyone.
January 4, 2011
A good read, telling the true story of this authors life in care. He has a new book out soon called "Looking back in time" so I will be reading it for sure.
February 2, 2023
I thought this was a great read. Well done to the author.
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