The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Way I Used to Be Series: #1 of The Way I Used to Be Author: Amber Smith Narrator: Rebekkah Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 22, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 77 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 18 Genres: Popular on #BookTok Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestseller! In the tradition of Speak, Amber Smith's extraordinary debut novel “is a heart-twisting, but ultimately hopeful, exploration of how pain can lead to strength” (The Boston Globe). Eden was always good at being good. Starting high school didn’t change who she was. But the night her brother’s best friend rapes her, Eden’s world capsizes. What was once simple, is now complex. What Eden once loved—who she once loved—she now hates. What she thought she knew to be true, is now lies. Nothing makes sense anymore, and she knows she’s supposed to tell someone what happened but she can’t. So she buries it instead. And she buries the way she used to be. Told in four parts—freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year—this provocative debut reveals the deep cuts of trauma. But it also demonstrates one young woman’s strength as she navigates the disappointment and unbearable pains of adolescence, of first love and first heartbreak, of friendships broken and rebuilt, all while learning to embrace the power of survival she never knew she had hidden within her heart.