As soon as you look at the book, you’re hooked.
By Anisa / Spinebreakers Crew
As soon as you look at the book, you’re hooked. Then you read the book, and you’re hooked. Then you finish the book, and you still can’t stop thinking about it.
For here Brooks has divulged the world of Dawn Bundy; a nobody with a burden of a story. A story so moving and disturbing that it brought tears to my eyes and fractured my heart, as I hid with Dawn in her cave and travelled through the trauma of her troubled childhood.
What’s more is the wonderful way in which Brooks writes so that you can easily relate and empathise with Dawn, feeling her loneliness and fear as well as the dwindling notion of hope for a future as she slowly becomes free of herself, throwing away her invisible coat and finally braving the real world.
You can not help but grieve for Dawn, especially as it is a silent way of grieving for those who suffer the same fate in real life, far worse perhaps. Indeed this book has given me an awful lot to think about, most of all making me cherish the life I have now. For not all of us are so lucky; especially not Dawn.