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Robbed of a Childhood, Raped by the System: Autobiography of an Adult Survivor of Child Abuse

by Sunny Love

2.0 of 5 stars 2.00 · rating details · 4 ratings · 2 reviews

The nightmare began on day two for little, six-year-old Sunny. That day she was sexually molested by her stepbrother, on a remote Tennessee farm. The abuse by her stepfather and stepbrothers didn't stop for another five years, until Sunny's mother loses her battle with cancer. When Sunny and her brother, Toby, are sent to live with their father and stepmother in Indianapol ...more

Paperback , 124 pages

Published May 21st 2007 by iUniverse

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Jun 07, 2011 Jeannie rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: i-own

I didn't care much for this book, wasn't at all what I expected it to be. Getting tired of reading books by people that just have no idea how to write. Why not hire someone to write it for you and save us all the pain and suffering? Ok, on to the book.
I seem to get a lot of flak when I rate a book such as this, about childhood abuse, and don't give it a glowing review. I rate a book more on the style of writing the author uses than on what the book is about, I don't think that's wrong, it's jus I didn't care much for this book, wasn't at all what I expected it to be. Getting tired of reading books by people that just have no idea how to write. Why not hire someone to write it for you and save us all the pain and suffering? Ok, on to the book.
I seem to get a lot of flak when I rate a book such as this, about childhood abuse, and don't give it a glowing review. I rate a book more on the style of writing the author uses than on what the book is about, I don't think that's wrong, it's just how I do it. My heart goes out to anyone who is abused as a child, there is no excuse that justifies that happening. My beef with this book is with the author. Sorry, I don't like her much.
Only the first 9 pages are about her childhood sexual abuse so that kind of threw me, she writes more about her life after she grew up and she went into prostituion. This book is just basically her with one man after the other who she allowed to use her in different ways, her working in "saunas and massage parlors, stripping (which she calls dancing), she complains throughout the book that she had to do this to support her children, yet states that she gave custody of her children to her ex-husband and they didn't even live with her. She justifies working in a sauna and servicing men as not her fault because if the women had taken care of their men at home they wouldn't be there paying for sex with her. ???Hello??? and that makes it ok? sorry, doesn't cut it with me Miss Sunny Love. At one point in the book she goes into a lot of detail about when her man was cheating on her, hanging out at what she called "Slut bars", calling the women who hang out in bars "sluts and sleazy", I think Sunny Love is a hypocrite. Get real girl, you are one too! Then when she is busted for prostitution while working at the sauna, she blames it all on a bad cop who lied about her. But she had admitted earlier in the book that she was making money having sex with the men. That is prostitution! I'm laughing my ass off by this time cause this woman is not in touch with reality, I mean she is out there! Now I agree that what happened to her as a child probably made her this way but she could at least have a little humility about it, the whole book is just one big brag fest and almost pornographic in parts (like when she talks about a man who put a 45 magnum gun into her vagina).
I was very interested to know more about how she had turned her life around and became an advocate for people exiting correctional facilites but she barely touches on that subject. Only the last chapter deals with that and it was only 2 pages.
I'm still trying to figure out why she even wrote this book, I learned nothing from it. Sorry if this review offends the author or anyone else who reads this book and likes it. We are all entitled to our opinion, please don't jump all over me for mine. ...more

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Nov 09, 2011 Eva Leger rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: b-abuse-recovery , b-non-fiction , couldn-t-finish-yuck

I read the first three chapters. I can't read anymore. I'm so tired of people who feel they can write since it's so easy to self-publish. Self-publishing may just be the biggest detriment to this industry ever. I hate to say that since I've loved books by self-pub'd authors but damn. Most of them are garbage.
This? Garbage. The writing sucks. She jumps all over the place . If you can't properly construct a paragraph why are you trying to write a book? If I write a sentence about cars. Another sent I read the first three chapters. I can't read anymore. I'm so tired of people who feel they can write since it's so easy to self-publish. Self-publishing may just be the biggest detriment to this industry ever. I hate to say that since I've loved books by self-pub'd authors but damn. Most of them are garbage.
This? Garbage. The writing sucks. She jumps all over the place . If you can't properly construct a paragraph why are you trying to write a book? If I write a sentence about cars. Another sentence about cars. A sentence about fish. Another sentence about cars. Will you look at me crazy? Yes. You would. So don't write the frigging "book" if you can't write . The editing mistakes aren't as bad as some I've seen. In fact, pick up most any urban fiction book from a REAL publisher and you'll sadly find worse. But still, there are there.
On to the next thing, I'll be honest here even if it makes me unpopular. Number one because I don't care if I'm unpopular and number two because I like being honest. (Couldn't you tell?) I find it hard to believe anyone who has ONLY met people who have abused them. I mean, for real? I know the real world, trust me. Been in it for awhile now. But unless your kept in total seclusion by your abuser you are going to meet and interact with someone - someone - who isn't abusing you.
This woman's brothers raped. Her step-father raped her, her mother beat her, her step-mother beat her, the dog raped her, on and on and on and on.
Then you have the contradictions. That may be an unfair word though because a lot of what I'm referring to may just be poor word choices. But still, they are contradictions.
She complains in the beginning that "prison is no picnic". I'm sorry! Let us change that for you! We'll make it so much nicer for our rapists and murderers. How about we make it more worthwhile to commit crimes? You know, since those harsh sentences and prison conditions are really putting people off of the crimes now and all. wtf.
On page 2 the last sentence in the second paragraph goes as follows:
"As you may well imagine, my mother went ahead and married this man."
Yes. I can well imagine it. Especially since you told me that four freaking times in the last page and a half. Poor writing anyone? The second sentence in the very first paragraph in the entire book(let) states that she married this man. The first sentence in the second paragraph states that she married this man. The last sentence in the third paragraph states that she married this man. Do I REALLY need to hear it a FOURTH time in the fourth paragraph? Were we going for some sort of obscure record here?
On page 3 she tells us how "close" she and her mother were. (I use that word, 'mother', loosely. My definition of 'mother' is pretty damned defined and this one isn't cutting it for me.) They cooked together, talked about everything, etc. The next paragraph says they got beat when they peed the bed. Hey, what do I know? Maybe mothers can be "close" with their kids and beat them too. Sure, why not.
I have a question for someone with more medical experience than I - can a pulled disk turn into spinal cancer if left unattended? Common sense tells me no. But I'm not a spine or cancer doctor so I'll wait to say much more about this. But, this is the authors claim. Her mother didn't go to the doctor for a pulled disk and it turned into cancer. Remind me to not let my flu turn into AIDS please.
I stopped noting things here. When I started the book(let) I thought I wouldn't finish. Then I told myself to give it my all, it's not a real length book after all, go for it. And then I read some more and that flew right out the window.
It's basically coming down to this - I don't think I believe everything out of the authors mouth. That may be a result of the poor writing though. But it is what it is either way. The writing isn't good in any sense of the word. If there were any good ratings on this I'd immediately think they were fake.
I appreciate what the author is trying to do - I think. I don't really think, in the world right now, that our money, thoughts, and actions should be wasted on criminals. Criminals did something to get where they are. There are sick, abused, tortured, lost, etc. children and animals in the world. Single mothers and fathers who can barely make it out there. And this woman - and others like her - are concerned about criminals? What is this? How backwards can you get?
No one deserves to be abused ANYWHERE. But at the same time, if I rape someone and go to prison I don't deserve all the amenities! I deserve a shitty time of it! It was MY choice. I don't feel bad for criminals. And, by the way, I've been a criminal. In case anyone wants to think I'm jumping on a high horse here. I have been there. I've been locked up. I've been alone and in jail. It's not fun, nor should it be. I did what I did and deserved what I got.
My money, efforts, time and attention will go to those in trouble who do not deserve it. Who did nothing to put themselves in the situation they're in.
Our jails and prisons should NOT be "picnics" to use Miss Sunny Love's words. I'm happy she's gotten her life together and moved past her abuse. I wish it has never happened to her or anyone else. But being abused doesn't make you an author. ...more

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