Need You Now {Book Review & Giveaway}

I'm an avid reader, but as the girls get older, the time I have to read is short. I mainly read non-fiction parenting books (I'm real interesting huh?). :) However, I recently received the opportunity to review a book by author Beth Wiseman called Need You Now.

I was absolutely capitvated from the very start by a personal, touching, and what I consider realistic story set in contemporary times. I don't personally want to give the story away, but I'll share just a bit about what touched my heart while reading this book.

The story is about two middle aged parents who move their family from a big city to a small town. In doing so, their teenage daughter struggles in a very real way through self-injury. I appreciated that the author addressed a somewhat taboo and rarely talked about real issue in teenage girls. Furthermore, later on in the book, the author included a character who had high-functioning autism.

I quickly realize that this was a book I was not going to be able to put down. So much so that I read it in two days! Not something that happens often anymore as my time is limited. Overall, I would highly recommend this to a reader. It is not your typical boy meets girl and falls in love romance story. Rather it is real life, hard and even painful at times, one that includes a messy, non-perfect life. Perhaps that is why I liked it so much, because it was honest and real, rather than a fairy tale.

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