This could be a very triggering read, but I highly recommend it if you feel safe reading it.Īverage Customer Review: (4.3 out of 5, on Amazon)Ĭategory: Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Violence, Girls & Women FictionĪvailable: Paperback | Hardcover | Kindle Check On Amazon It’s done in a way where you see what exactly characters go through and what people go through every day. There are many parallels to how we talk about social abuse and assault in our current culture. Like The Way I Used To Be, there are several subtle ways to show how people blame the victim instead of the perpetrators. So it was intriguing to recognize those in character and relate to them that way even though they’re not part of the experience. Without giving any of them away, there were several different coping mechanisms that you could see throughout the book. The timeline won’t match up to what you’ve already talked about because you can’t get it clear in your brain. Especially in the cases where alcohol and drugs have been used, memories shift, and it can be a situation where an interrogator will ask questions. The other aspect of this book is the timeline. It eventually comes up in passing conversation, but it took a while before I figured out the protagonist’s name. One interesting way the author has shown this erasure that she feels about herself is that you don’t even know the protagonist’s name for the book’s first few pages. Even it feels her life has been taken away from her. Through this, you get a protagonist struggling to continue through life. Due to rape culture, small-town politics, and economics, she has not been believed about the accusation she put forth. All the RageĪll The Rage follows a high school senior named Romy Grey, who has been the victim of sexual assault.
Many books about harassment, abuse, and assault are similar to The Way I Used To Be.
Though it is a fiction book, you find the reality in our society. She’s not a victim, and she’s a survivor. In this book, Eden went from being a sexual assault victim, and then, in the end, she ended up realizing that she is a sexual assault survivor. The Way I Used To Be is about social abuse and struggling life. If you like The Way I Used To Be, keep reading! 5 Books like The Way I Used To Be (Social Abuse) Eden was a shining star in this book, and she grasps you and tugs at your heartstrings. Even though Eden makes a lot of bad choices, she ends up hurting a lot of the people trying to help her, trying to understand why she is the way she is because she does not tell anyone what happened to her. She can captivate you, keep your attention, and immerse you in the story. You can see that she is incredibly talented, and she has a way with words. She ends up pushing the people that love her away from her.Īmber Smith’s writing style is gorgeous in this book. It follows her through her bad choices, and she makes a lot of bad ones. She’s trying to understand why it happened and how can someone she knows, someone she trusts, do this to her? It follows the aftermath of that assault. It starts with her freshman year when the assault happens, and it goes all the way to her senior year.Įden does not tell anyone what happens, mostly because she’s trying to wrap her head around what happened. However, her entire life changes the night when her brother’s best friend Kevin rapes her. So she has a typical average normal life, and she is 14 years old. She has a great relationship with her older brother and has loving parents. The Way I Used To Be by Amber Smith is about Eden, and Eden is a typical average good girl.
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