REVIEW Saving Avery by Angela Snyder
When we first meet Avery, she is a typical teenage girl. Freshly graduated from high school and looking to ditch her fathers graduation party in order to go and party with her friends but on her way out the door, she comes runs into the Mason's, a true power couple and her father's close friends. With them is there very handsome son Nathan. Avery finds herself immediately bewitched by Nathan and his dashing looks and charming persona and soon forgets about leaving to join her friends. Perfection is truly never as it seems and Avery soon discovers that Nathan has two very different personalities. One is charming and loving and the other is abusive and controlling. Avery attempts to leave him many times and even attempted to commit suicide, but Nathan always found her and dragger her home after comitting her to a mental hospital for a short time. Once hime, her beatings were extreme and each time seemed to get worse.
Avery is permitted to volunteer at the hospital on a daily basis but must adhere to a very strict time sensitive schedule. She must get up at 3am in order to shower and clean the house before cooking Nathan's breakfast to perfection, anything less results in pain, then she must clean up afte his breakfast only to then ensure she is covered and no bruises are visable before she can go to the hospital. In the afternoons , she must be home before Nathan and have his meal cooked and ready for him.
It is during on of her volunteer shifts that she meets Max, a handsome and sweet paediatrician who has just started at the hospital. Avery knows that she is not to talk to men and tries to ignore him but Max has other ideas.
Max feels an instant connection to Avery, inlike anything he has ever felt before and the more he learns about her, the more he falls inlove with her. With Max's help, Avery manages to find a part of herself that she thought was lost forever, her will to live. I don't want to give the whole story away but I will warn you that it IS a story about one woman's life of sever domestic violence. Parts of this story contain verbal abuse, physical abuse and even rape. If these things offend you then this is not the book for you, but if like me, you enjoy a story that touches on real issues without the need to sugar coat it, then this is definitely the book for you. Oh and just so you know, the good guy always wins :)
