VICIOUS CYCLE

by

Terri Blackstock

Synopsis: 
To protect her newborn baby … Jordan has to abandon her. A sequel to Intervention, this latest novel of suspense and family loyalty by bestselling author Terri Blackstock offers a harrowing look at drug addiction, human trafficking, and the choices that can change lives forever

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ISBN: 0310250676 
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Zondervan Publisher
Paperback, 324 pages
3rd book in series

Terri Blackstock

Terri Blackstock (www.terriblackstock.com) has sold six million books worldwide and is a New York Times bestseller. She is the award-winning author of Intervention and Double Minds, as well as such series as Cape Refuge, Newpointe 911, the SunCoast Chronicles, and the Restoration Series,

MY REVIEW:

Life is a vicious cycle in the life of  drug uses.  When the mother stays high on drugs and has a baby or a child is raised in that home then it goes on with the new generation doing the same thing they grow up with.  This is the case of Jordan a fifteen year old girl that uses drug so much and she just became a mother of a baby girl.  Jordan's mother and brother both live with her and they would not stay sober long enough to take the girl to a hospital, so Jordan had to deliver her own baby.

But this book is more about another family that tries to help Jordan.  Barbara has a daughter "Emily" that was a drug user and is now in a place "New Day" where they keep them for a year so that the drugs can get out of their systems.  She also has a fifteen year old son "Lance" and this is where they had met Jordan, as she was there for a while but decided to leave and went right back to the old life style she was in. 

Lance enjoys going to visit his sister as he like to tease and talk to the girls there but he also was one that had turned down drugs and liked to help people.  Barbara had raised her children in a Christian home as she was a widow and she had a hard time trying to raise them. money wise.

I would have loved to have been able to read the first books as I am sure they tell more about how the drug lords drag the young people into the life of abusing their bodies and minds with drugs.  This is the first book that I have read that really made you feel as though you were living the life of these people and it make you see how easy it is for even your child can get into the habit of drugs.

Terri does a wonderful job with this book as she does all that she writes.

 I was given a complimentary copy of this book from the author in exchange for posting my review from Christian Review of Books.