Post – Living in the after, the events that took place over a year ago are etched in my brain. Haunting me in the worst ways imaginable.
Traumatic – Physical and psychological scars have me so wounded that I can’t get through a day without my mind swirling with constant fucked up images.
Stress – Anxiety. Panic. Rage. I’m not myself and the pain I fight through each day has made me make some really bad decisions.
Disorder – Out of control. Not fucking normal. Nowhere even close.
I say fuck Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
The life I left behind is gone and everything I’d hoped to return to has been stolen away, all while I was being beaten, starved, and tortured. But being Nate Wilcox, I pick my ass up, ‘cause I’m a fucking survivor. Even if my methods are totally fucked up, it’s all I can do to keep the pain at bay.
4.5 stars
3rd book in the Every Soul Series – Book One: Every Soul – Book Two: Every Heart
I have to being by saying I have not read the other two books in this series. However after reading Nate’s story I do wish that I knew the other characters background because Nate’s story is pretty traumatic. What I learned was that Every Soul and Every Heart are Bain and Arion’s story that directly holds a tremendous impact on Nate. Having said that I did get the just of what had happened not in detail of course but it didn’t make me love this book any less.
Lets start with the cover --- dead on. The emotions held in the form of one photograph is astounding. A man fighting his demons, containing his fears and harboring his flashbacks – that is one soul destroying picture as it puts everything into perspective. Amazing …..
Nate suffers from PTSD after being held captive as a POW for over a year. We are engulfed in emotion as he remembers through flashbacks during the course of the story. His heartache and suffering is soul torturing. I admire the strength that is written into Nate’s character by Ms. Collins.
A chance encounter brings Nate hope in the form of an exquisite and determined woman named “El.” Accepting Nate for who he is due to her own past experiences something more grows between them. The past however threatens to keep them apart and falling back into a life with true happiness.
This is a great story. Of course its fiction but giving readers even a very small understanding of what soldiers with PTSD fight through on a daily basis is something that I am grateful for. My reality is a veteran who lives with this, fights to forget and remember all at the same time.
Great read and a must click in my opinion. I certainly will go back and grab the other two books up and put them on my TBR. Review to appear on Ramblings From Beneath The Sheets blog/FB.
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