A review by librarianryan
Visitations by Corey Egbert

emotional sad slow-paced

4.0

 
This book was not at all what I was expecting. I was expecting area 51 and ghosts and instead I got a heart wrenching biography that looks overzealous religious belief ones parents foster upon their kids. This is the true story of Corey, his parents’ divorce, and the weeks of living in a car after being kidnapped by his mother. His mom told the kids all their life that their dad was bad and he did bad things and so they shouldn’t talk to him because that is what God wanted. His mom had mental health issues and he had to deal with the consequences to him and his sister. This book was incredibly well done. It’s a read with illustrations that make one feel like they’re with the author during the event. This is a book I would read multiple times, but it is books that will have readers that need it. Readers that need guidance dealing with their own mental health, or readers that need guidance, to see someone who was raised with religious beliefs that seem to differ from what they feel inside. This book has a place and should be on Library shelves.