The Reckoning by Tara Proffitt with Ann Cusack

A truly harrowing read .
Poor Tara and her siblings had an awful childhood at the hands of their parents and when she escaped the house to stay with her grandfather , her mother's father he sexually abused her as he had Taras mother .
Life threw many more awful things her way including the murder of her mother yet Tara was able to turn her life around and to become a mother herself .

It's hard to say you enjoyed the book due to the subject matter but it is worthy of 5 stars for her honesty and tenacity to share her life .

A powerful and emotional story.

From a young age, Tara had shouldered so much responsibility. She had a hard childhood. Her parents were drug addicts. They had more children than just Tara, so she, being the eldest, was basically in charge of all the kids, even when she was still a child herself.

Another sad, sickening and tragic story. There are so many of them these days. How brave that some can speak out; tell what happened to them, maybe even help others. This was well-told, and made gripping reading, I was just hoping and praying that all would turn out for Tara in the end.

I got this a while ago, and thought it would be a difficult read, so I delayed starting it. But once I went in, I just couldn't stop reading. Such a powerful story.

I've read a few memoirs co-written by Ann Cusack, and they've all been excellent-this one is another great example.

There are hopeful and positive elements to her story as well as the extremes and her eventual quest for justice and healing.

A fast read, I powered through the pages. Such an emotional story. This lady has been to hell and back.

Such a raw, heartbreaking memoir. It's hard to rate a book as excellent when the topic is so brutal but it's excellent none the less.