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You'd Be Home Now
by Kathleen Glasgow
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5 stars
You’d be home now is a contemporary story about Emory and her brother Joey, who is a drug addict. It is a story about their bond and how an addiction effects the addicted and those around them.
“And if you’re not, like, solid with yourself, how can you help somebody else?”
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Kathleen Glasgow as a writer and have been seeing her books around for some time, Girl in Pieces especially. Constantly seeing her books and hearing good things made me curious, so when I saw You’d Be Home Now on sale I couldn’t help but bring it home with me. After having read a lot of fantasy lately I wanted something different to read.
The story takes place in a small town where everybody seems to know everybody. It makes it feel like everything somebody does will always be found out and thus no secrets are possible. It gives the sense that there is some sort of expiration date to the “good” and “calm” that is sort of present at the beginning. A sort of calm before the story. It made me very curious to see what would happen next. Especially with the prologue being very intriguing and attention grabbing.
The whole book is completely focused on one’s mental health and how events you have no say in can effect it. I applaud Glasgow for writing this book, as it is super realistic and I believe more books like these are needed in the world. Not only to give people who have never experienced mental health issues, or know somebody who does, an idea what it is like. It is also needed for those who can recognize themselves in this book. The story doesn’t shy away from the bad and the ugly and recognizing yourself and maybe what you’ve been through will make you feel seen. It will make you feel like it isn’t a taboo or something not spoken about!
I loved the way this story was written from the POV of Emory, and thus from an “outsider” looking in at the one with an addiction. A lot of things come around when someone close to you has an addiction and I loved seeing how it affected Emory and not only Joey. The ugly and the bad it brought, but also the hope. It was beautiful to see and read.
This book was an emotional rollercoaster for me that I won’t ever forget reading. I recognized so much of the feelings I had years ago, when reading how Emory felt about being invisible. It was eye-opening for me and honestly made me very emotional while reading this book. Because I saw my younger self in it, it made me cry multiple times when reading it. And to be honest, a book that makes me cry is just an instant 5 star rating hahaha.
Overall, it is an amazing book about an addiction and what it does to those affected. It is grabbing, honest, realistic and really makes you see and understand it more. It is just as Emory said, they are people as well, even if they struggle.
You’d be home now is a contemporary story about Emory and her brother Joey, who is a drug addict. It is a story about their bond and how an addiction effects the addicted and those around them.
“And if you’re not, like, solid with yourself, how can you help somebody else?”
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Kathleen Glasgow as a writer and have been seeing her books around for some time, Girl in Pieces especially. Constantly seeing her books and hearing good things made me curious, so when I saw You’d Be Home Now on sale I couldn’t help but bring it home with me. After having read a lot of fantasy lately I wanted something different to read.
The story takes place in a small town where everybody seems to know everybody. It makes it feel like everything somebody does will always be found out and thus no secrets are possible. It gives the sense that there is some sort of expiration date to the “good” and “calm” that is sort of present at the beginning. A sort of calm before the story. It made me very curious to see what would happen next. Especially with the prologue being very intriguing and attention grabbing.
The whole book is completely focused on one’s mental health and how events you have no say in can effect it. I applaud Glasgow for writing this book, as it is super realistic and I believe more books like these are needed in the world. Not only to give people who have never experienced mental health issues, or know somebody who does, an idea what it is like. It is also needed for those who can recognize themselves in this book. The story doesn’t shy away from the bad and the ugly and recognizing yourself and maybe what you’ve been through will make you feel seen. It will make you feel like it isn’t a taboo or something not spoken about!
I loved the way this story was written from the POV of Emory, and thus from an “outsider” looking in at the one with an addiction. A lot of things come around when someone close to you has an addiction and I loved seeing how it affected Emory and not only Joey. The ugly and the bad it brought, but also the hope. It was beautiful to see and read.
This book was an emotional rollercoaster for me that I won’t ever forget reading. I recognized so much of the feelings I had years ago, when reading how Emory felt about being invisible. It was eye-opening for me and honestly made me very emotional while reading this book. Because I saw my younger self in it, it made me cry multiple times when reading it. And to be honest, a book that makes me cry is just an instant 5 star rating hahaha.
Overall, it is an amazing book about an addiction and what it does to those affected. It is grabbing, honest, realistic and really makes you see and understand it more. It is just as Emory said, they are people as well, even if they struggle.