her family. Her childhood was just so horrible, and at times reading about all she went through was unbearable, she was abused verbally and physically. Even after all of it, she was still trying to fight, to have a better life. She’s a warrior and searching for her brother, Vic, maybe to find love she couldn’t have in her family.

Be prepared for a roller coaster of draining emotions. In her darkness, she found Eli, a young boy who showed her how to love and feeling loved.

Eli was one of the most interesting male character I met in a book. Brilliant and compassionate, he was Grace’s light in her darkness, wanting to protect her and to provide a better future far away from this shitty life.

After Grace’s disappearance, heis an activity and operation on the
part of a being who is thought of as a cause, that there is an 'ego,'
and finally, that it is already determined what is to be designated by
thinking--that I KNOW what thinking is. For if I had not already decided
within myself what it is, by what standard could I determine whether
that which is just happening is not perhaps 'willing' or 'feeling'? In
short, the assertion 'I think,' assumes that I COMPARE my state at the
present moment with other states of myself which I know, in order to
determine what it is; on account of this retrospective connection with
further 'knowledge,' it has, at any rate, no immediate certainty for
me."--In place of the "immediate certainty" in which the people may
believe in the special case, the philosopher