What Unbreakable Looks Like

3.5 stars

I was sent an email with a NetGalley widget inviting me to read this book. I read the synopsis and decided to read it so thanks to the publisher, the author and Netgalley for providing me with a copy in exchange for my honest review.

First I just want to say that this is a painfully honest book and a hard topic to read about. There are trigger warnings for sex trafficking, substance abuse, addiction and so many others so if you are triggered by content please look into it before reading this book.

This book starts off by the girls being rescued and then follows Alexa (Lex) and how she copes with the aftermath. Every person has a different way of coping with trauma and there's no right or wrong way. We get to see Lex grow so much in the story. She starts off not trusting anything or anyone and by the end of the book she still has bad times but she has started to trust more and believe that she deserves to be happy.

The writing was very choppy and hard to keep up with. I mean one minute I was reading about Lex sitting in the kitchen talking to the detective and then she was all of a sudden in her room. This is just one example of how the author would jump from one thing to another and you really had to be paying attention to catch it. Keep in mine that I read an uncorrected proof so things could be different in the final copy.

I also need to mention the use of AAVE (African American Vernacular English) This was brought to my attention and I have to be honest and say I didn't know what this was until I looked it up. The person who brought it to my attention was very uncomfortable with the usage and stopped reading it. When I was reading it I felt like some of the language was off and didn't feel right but I didn't know what it was until this was brought to my attention. It was only in the very beginning of the book.

Overall I think this is a book that needs to be read by everyone. The content is very heartbreaking but also hopeful. as mentioned several times in the book most girls go back to the like so Lex's story is a best case scenario but still one that needs to be talked about more.