Book Review: A Child Called "It"

I haven't had much time for reading lately but was able to squeeze a short story into my day. I read the book A Child Called "It". This is an incredibly sad story about a boy who was extremely abused by his mother. For unknown reasons she picked him out of her four children to be cruel to, to show no love but real hate. The book made me want to hold my children a little tighter and make sure they all know how much I love them. No one should have to go through the cruelty of abuse. To think that a child would have to live in survival mode is horrific in itself but that someone so close to him would chose to torture him like that is pure EVIL!!! Life is too precious!