Review: Progress by Amalie Silver

Progress by Amelia Silver is the first book I have read by this author.  Let me just start by saying that this book is a cliffhanger and I will be waiting to read the next book.  Charlene (Charlie) and Jesse are such complex and twisted characters that you can’t help but read the book just to see how things turn out.  Both of the characters alone deal with mental anguish that they have made coping devices for instead of handling their issues.  This book is not a light and cheery book it makes you stop and think about what people who have gone through these issues and that have these problem go through on a daily basis.  I have to say that I did love seeing the growth that Charlie did through this book and that she was finally able to except things about herself and realized that she can love herself.   I can only hope in the next one Jesse figures out how to truly love and grow in his own way as well. 

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Jesse I admit, I didn’t think much of Charlie at first. She was rounder than the girls who usually caught my eye. Not my type. But when I saw her sitting in that booth alone, for the first time something in my mind or my instincts or my heart told me to join her. She defied me. She challenged me. She gave me hope. Before I knew it, moving forward was my only option. Charlie I couldn’t tell you when it happened, but it had to have been a gradual change; I never moved too quickly. If someone would have told me earlier that year what I was going to go through, I wouldn't have believed them. Jesse was so different from anyone I’d met before. And everyone I’ve met since. He sucked all the life out of me, in the best—and worst—ways. We don’t get strong overnight. For most of us it takes time. Strength isn’t measured by how high and fast our walls go up, but how easily we can watch them fall.

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Amalie Silver resides in Minnesota with her husband, two toddlers, and German Short-haired Pointer, Saba. She consumes approximately three pots of coffee a day, and credits this for her survival over the past decade. When not completely consumed in her writing, she can be found taking road trips to northern Minnesota, engaging in fierce Scrabble games, or reading a good book. She’s a sucker for all romance genres, literary fiction, and psychological fiction.