cuckleberryfins 's review for:

The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith
5.0

This didn't make me sob the way I wanted it to but it still hurt me.

tw: graphic rape, drug use

This was a fantastic depiction of how some people react to trauma. I saw so much of myself in Eden. Which was a bit rough, tbh.

I saw a lot of reviews mention Eden's drug abuse but she literally smoked weed twice. I was probably worse in high school than Eden was in every way except surrounding sex.

But this was a good story. It was a necessary one, as much as it hurts to say.