{"id":395,"date":"2016-03-22T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2015-09-17T02:18:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T02:18:50","slug":"review-of-the-way-i-used-to-be-by-amber-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/review-of-the-way-i-used-to-be-by-amber-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/23546634-the-way-i-used-to-be\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1433883455m\/23546634.jpg\" rel=\"colorbox\" class=\"colorbox\" alt=\"The Way I Used to Be\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/23546634-the-way-i-used-to-be\">The Way I Used to Be<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/9857002.Amber_Smith\">Amber Smith<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1393398115\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was fortunate enough to receive an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.<\/p>\n<p>This book! All the feels! There were moments reading it when I felt Eden&#8217;s pain\/terror\/regret\/anger so strongly, it was like being right by her side. Her teenage experiences felt real and honest. In a way, this book was a window that allowed me to understand why teenagers act out about seemingly silly things&#8211;chores, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>This book shares such an important message. That&#8217;s it&#8217;s never too late to change your mind. That you have the right to change your mind. <strong>That not saying anything doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;ve decided.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And the writing! The writing was powerful and gorgeous. An exceptional debut by a very talented author.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Add The Way I Used to Be to your to-read list right away!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/5285139-melissa-gorzelanczyk\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was fortunate enough to receive an ARC of this book in exchange for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-read-p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/review-of-the-way-i-used-to-be-by-amber-smith\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}