The Leading Edge Of Now

Book: The Leading Edge Of Now

Author: Marci Lyn Curtis

Publisher: Kids Can Press

Released: Sept 2018

Readership: Teens & YA

Review:

*** stars

I swear through out the book I was scared for the lead so much, worrying that she is going to be scared for life even though she already is.

Disclaimer: I was provided with a ARC of this book by Netgalley so I could give an honest review.

Also the book contains trigger words like abuse and rape, so if you are not ready to read something like this, I would suggest you think twice before picking up this books.

Grace Cochran once living the perfect life filled with love and family now struggles as every day ends. With her father gone and her uncle missing from her life, she has no way to find her way back to the once happy life she lived.

Just as she begins to adjust to her foster care life, two years after her father's dead her unreliable uncle Rusty signs her guardianship papers. Uprooting her life once again. Too many reason why she does not want to return to the place that scared her the most, took her best friend, love and more.

The book heavily plays on the mystery around who Grace's rapist while she has been believing her Boy friend and childhood crush aka best friend's brother is responsible. As much as painful that sounds I don't even want you to image what happens next.

As she deals with the aftermath of all kinds of losses and picking up the pieces Grace beings to find comfort in the old familiar New Harbor.

What bothered me the most in the book is its structure a bit , in which the mystery lasted 3/4th of the book we got very little time to actual deal with the culprit. I am aware that's not what the book is about but after seeing grace go through all of it I just wanted her to be angry more angry.

I thought she'd be more angry, I dont even want to think about what she goes through. It is a tough topic and harder to write about. Let alone let the world read it.

I did like how Marci Lyn Curtis manages to deal with the topic in a very serious and subduded manner, focusing on Grace her life and moving forward.

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