738 Days

738 Days by Stacey Kade

At fifteen, Amanda Grace was abducted on her way home from school. 738 days later, she escaped. Her 20/20 interview is what everyone remembers—Amanda describing the room where she was kept, the torn poster of TV heartthrob Chase Henry on the wall. It reminded her of home and gave her the strength to keep fighting.

Now, years later, Amanda is struggling to live normally. Her friends have gone on to college, while she battles PTSD. She’s not getting any better, and she fears that if something doesn’t change soon she never will.

Six years ago, Chase Henry defied astronomical odds, won a coveted role on a new TV show, and was elevated to super-stardom. With it, came drugs, alcohol, arrests, and crazy spending sprees. Now he's sober and a Hollywood pariah, washed up at twenty-four.

To revamp his image, Chase’s publicist comes up with a plan: surprise Amanda Grace with the chance to meet her hero, followed by a visit to the set of Chase’s new movie. The meeting is a disaster, but out of mutual desperation, Amanda and Chase strike a deal. What starts as a simple arrangement, though, rapidly becomes more complicated when they realize they need each other in more ways than one. But when the past resurfaces in a new threat, will they stand together or fall apart?**

I read this one because of the infamous BFF. She said she'd been rec'd this one and said it was like something we used to read a lot. It gave her all the feels and so I had to read it!! She was right, of course. (I get tired of saying that by the way) HA!

I can't even imagine living through what Amanda lived through. It is a parents worst nightmare, to send your child off to school and them never come home. Two years later she's found and its like a miracle. Except she's has severe PTSD. Things are hard for her, people touching her or loud noises make her cringe. Her family walks around on eggshells except her sister Mia. The one thing that kept her sane while she was kept was a picture of Chase Henry. When he suddenly shows up at her job she's shipped right back to that tiny dirty room, her world is chaos around her. She doesn't know why he's there but he's not HER Chase.  It's been a few years since she's been home but she's not getting any better, she still has a hard time coping with everything. Something needs to change. Maybe Chase's sudden appearance will help her in another way.

Chase's career is down the toilet. He remembers hearing about the girl that talked to a poster of him while she was abducted, now his publicist thinks that if he has Amanda come visit the set of his latest movie near her hometown.  He doesn't see how it can help but really it can't hurt. His career has been down the toilet for a little while, he's basically shoved it in the ground. Drinking and doing drugs, being in general unruly. He doesn't like the idea of using her but he doesn't want to crawl home to Texas a failure. After he meets her and spends some time with her he doesn't want to use her anymore.

I really did enjoy this one. It was nice and sweet. It was hard to imagine as a parent how they all were dealing with it. Amanda was going to therapy and her family seemed like they were trying but I could see that they were ignoring their other children in an attempt to help Amanda. Her dad was also having a hard time with Amanda being back. Of course they were all happy she was home safe and sound but she was different, understandably.  Amanda decided to take her life back and Chase was the one to make her want to try more. He may not of been the Chase she spoke to in her mind for those 738 days but he still helped her in the end. I thought the ending of the book was rushed. Some of the book was overly detailed. I was hooked though, I had to know how things were going to go. Have you read this one? Leave the author love in the form of a review!!

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