My Review of You'd Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow

Title: You'd Be Home Now 
Author: Kathleen Glasgow 
Expected Publication: September 28,2021
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Genre: Young Adult/ Contemporary 
Pages: 400pages 
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Review: 

Wow! I don't even know where to begin with this book. Let's just say this should become a Netflix show or movie, it is real and raw. The novel takes you through a 360-degree turn in all the emotions: happy, hope, despair, fear, sadness, embarrassment for the characters, and strength.
This is definitely the book that will bring you to tears more than once.
This story follows Emory. While Emory seems to have very big shoes to fill, she is also a normal teenager and things do not always go the way we want them. At the beginning of the book Emory and her brother along with her brother's friend, Luther and Candy are in a car accident after leaving a party. While Emory suffers from a knee injury, Luther loses an eye and is sent to Juvi, Joey because he had overdosed on Heroin was sent to rehab but Candy lost her life in this accident.
The whole accident has turned Emory's life upside down her friends left her, her family is upside down because of her brother's addiction, her perfect sister is off in college, her father is still the same saving lives and working at the local ER all the time and her mother is still trying to micromanage the whole family.
This book just proves that no life is a gift wrapped with a big bow on the top. Life has struggles and challenges and while things do not go over as planned life will be okay, it just takes time for you to realize that when you are down in the dumps.
In this book, Emory finds herself, not the person her mother wants or that is expected of her because of her family legacy she finds herself. She also finds her ride-or-die friends in the process and it's just amazing!
This book also gives you an insight into addiction that you never really get and that's the insight of someone that loves her brother and would do anything for him just to see that sometimes isn't enough that there is not a magically fix for addiction that it's a process and speed bumps are going to happen. I cannot recommend this book enough. I didn't know I needed this book until after I read it, and I'm still emotional over it. This should be one of your next reads! Thank you Netgalley & Delacorte Press for the extraordinary opportunity to read and review this book! 

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