this book left me depressed for days its terrifiying and says a lot abought the world we live in if storys like this one Junko Furuta, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Sylvia Likens keap hapening and there also so many that no one ever finds out abought like the 5 year old in Russian who was beaten to death by her perents for breaking the chandelier and there many other examples im glad that people are starting to take rape and child abuse more siriusly and that Mr Peters despite the horrors he went through had strength to help other victims Not for the faint-hearted. This was the toughest book I have ever read. I have read many survival stories, Fly boys (decapitations), Unbroken, the Hiding Place, Left to Tell (Rwandan genocide) and A Boy Called "It". I could read through all of those, wincing quite a bit. This one I actually had to skim part of a chapter as I could not take what the child had been subjected to. I could not take it, yet he did. He survived and God blessed him, thank goodness. He makes a good point regarding our thoughts about human trafficking, it's usually third world, far away from us. But he was just a kid in the neighborhood with a terribly sick mother and sick family. I wish to God this man had never lost his father. I could not put the book down. I read it in a few hours, but I'll be haunted by it forever...
What do You think about Cry Silent Tears (2000)?
This was a very moving and emotional book. Very sad but still a good book to read.
—mdcurtis21
What a horrible life this man lived as a child! Very graphic in this book.
—Rhidah
Shocking, sad, challenging to consider what's behind the behaviour.
—ann
