Thank you Little A and Netgalley for the advance digital copy.

This memoir is raw and shocking.

Keele's unbelievable story about her upbringing is indeed a story that "must be told".

The memoir feels like journal entries and little snippets of the most horrid parts of Keele's experiences as a child and teenager. I appreciated the way that she chose to tell her story. It was easier to digest the horrific content with the story being told in divided chunks of time like was.

Keele's story is gripping and I would recommend it as a must read for memoir readers.

This book contains detailed descriptions of abuse and sexual assault... It was not an easy read. I also felt the storytelling left me wanting more details in some areas (perhaps less in others). I enjoy memoirs when they include reflection from the author but Wholly Unraveled seemed to be missing that.

It was a very interesting and at the same time, awful read? i mean, how her childhood was and what she had to endure through it, it was painful and i kind of had a knot in my stomach basically the whole read. Sometimes things was left unsaid and i wish bits and pieces were clearer, hence my 3 stars. But i'm glad she's doing better now.

Open raw sad at times hard to read,Kelly shares with us the abuse she suffered as a child theveffects it had on her life as she grew up.A memoir that had me racing through the pages in shock at times a book a life you won’t forget.#netgalley #littleA

Although I read through this book at lightening speed I don’t know if I could recommend it to a friend due to some graphic, heart wrenching moments in Kathleen’s life. How she escaped such horrific abuse is nothing short of a miracle.

As the description says, this is a dark novel. Trigger warnings for abuse, drugs, sexual assault, mental abuse and more.
It felt very detached and matter of fact, reading through the book. I was expecting more emotions, but I found out later that this is part memoir and that would maybe explain this detachment.
Altogether I found it a decent read.

Always remember that reviewing a memoir means that on some level you are also judging a person and their life choices. Keele Burgin has done a very brave thing to open up about her abusive childhood, let alone what happened after. Not every choice was a good one, not every option was fully explored, and not all ends are tidy. She's a force to be reckoned with. Thanks to net galley for the ARC of this well written and interesting book.

Even though this memoir has a beginning, middle, and end, it felt disjointed even though there was a connection.
The beginning is about the author living with her abusive, religious fanatic father. Then, the next section, she leaves the house, takes up with drug dealers and is engaged to man who seems to worship her, but she refuses to reveal anything about herself. Before she left home, a boy her father insisted that she dated, raped her. Her mother knew but did nothing more than state that once she's married, she'll have to have sex even if she doesn't want to. She doesn't enjoy sex with her lover, but doesn't tell him why or that she finds sex painful. Instead, she leaves him with a drug friend, and as abruptly as the first section ended, we are now in the final section, where she's broke and living at a religious commune, and eventually, she admits to the others that she was raped in high school, and calls her father to say she's never going home, but we haven't seen her visit her family or have contact with them since she left home after high school. She disappeared, changed her name since she owed so much money on credit cards, and we never see her missing her sisters, brother, any family member, except for the hired help, a woman who basically raised her., a black woman who her mother once informed her that she thought all black people belonged in Africa, yet she kept her at their housekeeper since she served a function. For a book that dealt with so much abuse in the beginning, the narrative lacked much emotion, and perhaps that was intentional, but, as a reader, I wanted more than just a reciting of what happened, not that I was expecting wonderful lyricism to accompany this dark history, but I wanted to bit more honesty, another level of pursuit.