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Title: Compellingly honest
Review: This book is as honest as it comes. The story is told by a mature man, but through the eyes of the boy who lived it. It's a story of happiness, adventure, sadistic cruelty, betrayal, disillusionment, love, beauty and redemption, but not necessarily in that order. It's a story that needed to be told, not for our benefit, but for Eire's. At times this book makes the reader feel like an unintentional eavesdropper to a confidential therapy session; it can be uncomfortable, yet sacred, all at the same time. The book has an angry, broken heart, but an unyielding, generous soul.I simply had to respect the depth and clarity of raw, naked and conflicted emotion that pours between the lines in this story about paradise. The innocent exuberance of youth romps through the book, daring the angry, bitter voice of maturity to deny the existence of turquoise seas, sunlit days, happiness and...love? Ah, but this is not my story to interpret, so I will leave it at that.
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