Charred Souls: A Story of Recreational Child Abuse

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Summary: Must Read
Review: This book is a must read for anyone who cares about the neglect and abuse so many children in this country suffer. It makes a good point regarding the number of cases which go unreported. For every case we read about in the newspaper, or see on television news, there are an unknown number of children living in a world of neglect/abuse that we never hear about. This book will tear your heart out, but it needs to be read and passed around. I have read it three times and I still can't do it without clouding up. The fact that Trena Cole, and her siblings are still alive and sane, is a testament to their strength.

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Summary: Charred souls
Review: This book is a rewarding story to get through. It is hard at times to understand the pain and frusteration that a person deals with after they have been abused, and our actions towards them can be helpful or detrimental. This book helped me cope with abuse in my family and helped me learn how to help the abused individual. It's not a world that you can understand unless you live it, but this book helps you come as close as you can. Very moving, very fulfilling. Thank you, Trena Cole.

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Review: This book is amazing! I couldn't imagine anyone else went through what I did. The comparisons are bone-chilling...The author makes you feel like you are watching as she describes the situations that plagued her childhood. This is a sad story, but I have faith that it will help a lot of people. It is a battle worth fighting to awaken awareness about child abuse.

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Summary: Charred Souls: A Story of Recreational Child Abuse
Review: This book tells the tale of a woman and her 6 siblings, growing up in a small town, being abused almost daily. It is an excellent resource to help understand the effects of abuse and neglect. Trena Cole outlines her memories with feelings that become almost tangible to the reader. She invokes such emotion with her stories, you feel like you're on a roller coaster. You hope for these children and care for them as if you know them. She brings life to a story while so many others like it are kept silent. She has told...and we should be glad she did.

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Summary: Review for Charred Souls
Review: This book was very helpful to me and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I would recommend it to anyone.

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Summary: Customer Review
Review: This is an excellent book! I would strongly recommend anyone going into the fields of social work, psychology, or education to read this. Anyone else, be strong and have tissues, but the payoff is worth it.

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Summary: Compelling
Review: This is one of the most compelling and poignant stories I have ever read. As painful as it was to read of the sadism this little girl and her siblings were subjected to, I simply could not put the book down. The writer has a way of putting the reader right there. As you frantically turn the pages you find yourself witnessing the horrific abuse. You recoil in disgust and rejoice in her strength of character as she is determined to survive and be a loving role model to her younger siblings. I only hope this gifted scribe keeps on writing.

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Summary: Affecting Account of Dreadful Abuse
Review: This is the heart-wrenching story of an alcoholic, dysfunctional white trash family, where babies were born like clockwork and then subjected on a constant basis to the vilest verbal and physical abuse. I hope everyone who is considering becoming a parent reads this book. This book may also sell more than a few "nannycams", as the sick, sadistic mother here also made a few dollars as a babysitter, subjecting her innocent charges to the same shameful abuses she employed to cripple her own children emotionally. I hope as well that poor Trena's beast of a mother, who I suspect is a narcissist as well as a born-again in complete denial, will read the reviews of her daughter's book here at Amazon and perhaps before her day of judgment realize what evil she perpetrated along with her equally depraved and sadistic husband. I am forced to deduct one star for the extreme editorial sloppiness displayed in this paperback from Oberpark Publishing Inc. of Indianapolis. Apparently there is no one in that city who has ever cracked the cover of a Chicago Manual of Style or Strunk & White's Elements of Style if this sorry edition is any evidence, as grammatical and punctuation errors abound here on every page. To cite just one example, "it's" is used throughout as the possessive form of "it". Trena Cole's story deserves much better support than this, and I hope Oberpark or another publisher will rise to the challenge in a future edition.

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Summary: My Review
Review: This story is incredible and made me realize how fragile and impactful life is. The author touches the heart with her honesty and vunerability as she recounts her story. 5 stars

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Summary: a quiet warrior
Review: This woman is amazing! Her sad story will penetrate your life, you cannot get it out of your head. I have told my entire family they must read this book, and anyone who comes across it should immediately purchase or obtain it. It affects the mind and soul. 5 stars!