Sticks and Stones
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4.3 • 11 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
"What a ridiculous saying."
Jenny nodded. "Bruises heal, eventually, but the words - they're there forever."
"Actually the words are like sticks and stones," said Fiona quietly. "Sharp and spiky and painful. Like little missiles."
Maddie had thought the support group might help her. But with a sense of almost giddy relief she can't identify at all with these women. She knew what Jake would say - sad, sorry bunch of females... drowning in bitterness and the inability to move on. And she felt relieved that she didn't belong.
But she had been wrong about so much lately. Wrong to think that everything was over, wrong to think that the law would protect her, and wrong to think that after six long years she could finally drop her guard and enjoy family life free of fear.
Because now Jake's found them. And he's taken the children. And he's going to make Maddie pay.
Customer Reviews
Highly recommended.
This book, and the previous, Broken (which you really have to read first) are so emotionally intense and as a woman and a mother, the most frightening I have ever read. Although my experience was no comparison to this, I could easily identify with Mattie/Maddie, and her pain, frustration and helplessness which was so well articulated.....And never have I hated a character as much as Jake. I could not put down the first book and immediately downloaded and began this one ..and with both books, even when not reading them, I could not stop thinking about them. All I can say is Isla Evans has done an incredible job of writing about such a troubling topic and although not "enjoyable" books, they are books which I highly recommend reading.