Book Review | Saving Beck by Courtney Cole

Saving Beck
By: Courtney Cole

Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Gallery Books
Publication Date: March 5th, 2019
Format: Paperback
My Rating: 5++ Stars
Blurb:

There comes a time when offering your life for your child’s doesn’t work, when you realize that it’ll never be enough. 

The cold needle in his warm vein was a welcome comfort to my son at first. But then it became the monster that kept us apart. 

Heroin lied, and my son believed. It took him to a world where the last year didn’t happen, to a place where his father was still alive. What Beck didn’t understand was that it couldn’t bring his father back from the dead. It couldn’t take away his pain, not permanently. 

You think it can’t happen to you, that your kids, your family, will never be in this situation. 
I thought that too. But you’re wrong. 

Step into our world, and see for yourself. 
Watch my golden boy become a slave to this raging epidemic. Watch me try and save him. 

Drug addiction comes with a price. 
Trust me, you’re not equipped to pay it. 

Yesterday I was looking through my bookshelves, needing something different for my reading palate. I came across a copy of Saving Beck by Courtney Cole that I had won in a Goodreads giveaway and completely forgot about. As I was sitting there reading the prologue, with my heart lodged in my throat and tears in my eyes, I decided to continue on with this story. I’m not even kidding when I say, I sat on the floor in front of my bookshelf for two and a half hours completely consumed and unable to let go of this heart wrenching story. Courtney Cole gave me exactly what I was searching for. Unfiltered Honesty.

Now here I sit, in front of my computer, trying to come up with the words to tell you all how much this novel has invaded my every thought and feeling. It’s a difficult task to put into words how much another’s story can mean to a single person, especially when that story is so unbelievably raw and honest. Courtney Cole shows with this story, the other side of the world that we aren’t usually given a glimpse of in literature. The world isn’t always sunflowers and unicorns. Just beyond the fence of fiction, there’s a dark reality that has affected a great majority of the world’s population. That dark reality is addiction.

Saving Beck is the story of a family’s journey through this dark reality and how quickly popping two pills can soon lead to an addiction to heroin. This is a story about a mother’s fight through depression after losing her husband in a car accident, in order to save her son from the downward spiral on the wrong path he’s decided to walk.It’s also a story about one teenage son’s need to erase the heartache, the guilt, and the overwhelming anxiety he feels when he thinks back to the accident that claimed his father’s life, the same accident that he caused.

I’m going to lay it all out on the table and say, there wasn’t a moment in this book that didn’t have me wanting to break down and sob like a newborn baby. My heart was completely crushed. Courtney Cole puts it all on the table with this devastating tale. So with that being said, If drug addiction is a trigger for you, I highly recommend you go into this one with your eyes wide open and your heart prepared.

The most important task we are given in life, is to be kind and watch over one another. I’ve always lived my life willing to reach out and offer a helping hand to anyone in need. But in all honesty sometimes I wonder if my generosity is being taken for granted. If my help is going towards something else rather than what it is intended for. My mama always says I’m soft hearted and often at times I’ve been told to harden my heart a little. I never understood what that meant until I flipped to the last page of Saving Beck. I truly understand what it means to have a soft heart just by feeling all the pain that Courtney Cole placed in this story. Even though this story resolves into a happy ending, my heart is crushed for those that haven’t had the happiest of endings.

Overall, my intention for this review is too leave spoilers out but also warn those that find this kind of material triggering. If anyone’s suffered through depression you’ll find these characters are going to be easily relatable and you’ll find the alarming truth of how easy it can be for those that fell under depression to jump on the easy track of addiction. Beck’s story completely broke my heart while Natalie’s shattered the fragile pieces. This may sound overly dramatic but in all honesty, I’ll never be the same after reading Saving Beck. This powerful story dug its way into my heart and into my head. I highly recommend this one to everyone looking for a little inspiration and hope that there is light at the end of the dark abyss.

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Peace Love and Happy Reading,

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