Heart Stopping, Gut Wrenching, Emotional Story
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RAW was by far my favorite read EVER!

This is not your typical Love story, It's Dark, Gritty, and pulls at your heart.

I am forever Team Twitch, and I know once anybody reads this book will feel the same.

It took some time for me to understand the depth of Twitch's feelings, but once it all came together, it all made sense.

If you want a book that is going to take you on an emotional roller coaster ride, pick up this book NOW!!!!!
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This is such an amazing heartfelt story from the beginning all the way to the end.

At time I felt as if I wanted to scream at the characters from their real life stubbornness or sob big fat ugly tears as to how my heart was breaking with each emotional tug/pull.

Such an incredible story and journey.  Well done Carey!!!

a MUST READ!!!

don't forget the tissues
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"I guess in the end, you start thinking about the beginning." " Love isn't always pretty or clear cut. It can't be wrapped in a nice little box and presented with a bow. Sometimes it's ugly and hurtful and does more damage than good." "Family is everything." These are a few of my favorite quotes in this book. This book is heart wrenching and I had to wait for the tears to stop so that I could write this review. This is a book about family drama, loss and mental illness. It also encapsulates so much more. This book made me cry, sob actually. You will need tissues. You will think you know answers to questions, but you will not. This book kept me turning page after page, wanting answers, no, needing answers and yet not wanting it to end. This is a well written portrayal of a dysfunctional family who does the unthinkable. The characters are deeply complex and the dialogue is moving to say the least. Your heart will break, I know that mine did on several occasions. I found this to be Steena Holmes best work to date. It is extremely well written and the flow of the story is exquisite, alternating between characters, it simply said, just works. I will not soon forget this story. My heart is still breaking and I still want to cry. I can not imagine what it must have been like for David, or for the other characters. This is a book that you simply have to read. You must savor every word, every little detail. The ending threw me for a loop, it was quite unexpected. I thought I knew the answers, I did not. I highly recommend this phenomenal book. You will not have an ounce of regret. I am grateful for the privilege to have read it. Thank you to Steena Holmes for another blockbuster of a story. You write with your heart and soul poured into every single word
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In Nova and Quinton's story, Jessica brings a rain of emotions from readers. Her writing style makes you feel them. Every. Single. One. You are invested in it.

Nova and Quinton's story is heartbreaking, poignant, raw, dark, devastating and emotionally charged rollercoaster that tugs at heart strings and leaves you breathless and speechless.

My heart was broken

For Quinton who was bit by bit getting closer to his rock bottom until he hit it. He has so much guilt, pain, sorrow, regret, anger, fear, sadness inside him that he can't think straight. He thinks that he doesn't deserve to live. That his life is a waste. That everything is his fault. He uses drugs to numb him so he could escape for all of that. Even just for a bit.

For Nova who wants to help him. To save him if he just lets her. Who is watching him getting lower and lower and sinking deeper and deeper. Se feels helpless and hear heart is breaking.

Their love for each other is undeniable, big, strong. But they are both afraid of admitting it.

I'm eager for the next book. Until the release I will be in a total suspense.

Picturesque, beautiful writing style and haunting story that takes you on an unforgettable journey that will cut you deep.

 5  read 

>>>ARC received in exchange for an honest review<<<
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This was an intense, gut wrenching story that will definitely have your emotions at the forefront. There is love, sadness, good times, intense connections, and once again, those Irish men you can't get enough of. Just make sure you have some tissues handy throughout. And be prepared for the ride
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There are no words to describe how truly amazing this book is!! It's heartwrenching. The characters are so young, yet have gone through so much pain it's debilitating and suffocating. Nastya is broken, she has no spirit. What happened to her was so horrific that she coped with the only way she could: changing everything about her former self. Josh - what can I say his life is filled with death. He lives everyday without ties to anyone. Once they meet both Josh and Nastya are strangely drawn to one another. They grow to care for eachother and both are scared because they believe they are broken. I felt so much reading this story. I loved each and everyone of the characters. I highly recommend it to everyone!! Read this book!!
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Wow.. what an amazing story. OK,  so this is about a young woman named Rachel who suffered a traumatic and horrendous event in her life. This event left her unable to have  children and with a brain injury that takes away her inhibitions.  She freely admits she has a healthy sexual appetite but even she doesn't understand the full implications of her brain injury.
Logan is Rachels brothers business contact. He is immediately drawn to Rachel but he doesn't know about her past. Logan wants the whole package.. the wife the kids and the white picket fence. He wants this with Rachel. She  can't give him what he wants. When he finds out things don't go well and a lot of things happen that change the course of their lives forever. Rachel has a hugely supportive family who are there for her through everything.
I felt distraught when it was revealed what happened to Rachel, I actually cried! Then when she had her happy ever after threatened I was heartbroken for her. Although this is a shorter story it will draw you in from start to finish.. You may laugh in some parts because Rachel does have a sense of humour but, you will also feel emotional. The things that happened to her do happen in real life to women all over the world and not all of them survive.
I feel like Casey Clipper has done a lot of research to be able to tell this story and to be able to pack so much information and emotion into a novella sized book. I think she has captured not just the detail and emotion of the main characters Rachel and Logan, but also of Rachels family, her father and brothers and all the struggles and emotions they have gone through watching Rachel go to hell and back. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a well told emotional, heart wrenching story filled with love, support and hope. You won't want to put it down until the end and you will most likely need tissues and chocolate while your reading!
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WOW....I mean WOW.  This story was so heart wrenching.  I don't even really know how to explain the feeling that I have right now regarding this book.  I was so enraged, and sad, and disgusted with human indecency during this book.  I was also totally and fully overwhelmed by the compassion I felt for the MC.  She was so "real" to me in this book.

Being a teenager is hard enough.  I cannot even grasp how hard it would be to find out that you were intersex and that the whole school found out about it.  Why is it when people are so threatened by what they don't know.  Why can't teenagers grasp that when someone finds out something so devastating to them it would be easier to just accept and support them, rather than to discard and ridicule them.  This is where the human indecency was just too much for me to handle sometimes.

Kristen's whole world was turned upside down.  As if her life hadn't been hard enough loosing her mother to cancer, but then she finds out that she is intersex.  She has some male chromosomes.  Her boyfriends first reaction is to throw her to the curb....Because he thinks it makes HIM looks bad.  Seriously.  That is the first time I cried in this book.  I knew that this girls life was going to be put under a microscope, and torn apart by here peers.

Thankfully there are a few who stand by her and try to help her though it.  This book made me realize that I hope I am teaching my kids that no matter what people matter.  Their sex, their sexual preference, their color, race, religion anything, doesn't matter.  They are human beings.  A child of  God.  Nothing else should ever matter.  Love is accepting all people no matter their circumstance.

Kristen's struggle through this book felt so raw, and so real.  My heart ached during this book.  Until a few people...not very many, but a few people finally made Kristen realize she is still loved no matter what.  It helped redeem some of the human indecency in this book.  She wanted to be accepted and loved.  Just like ever other teenager in the world.  I am not saying all teenagers are easy to love...hehe.  Kristen was though.  She had a great heart, was a loyal friend, and just so happened to be dealt a different card than her peers.

Her struggle to accept who she was made my tears flow freely.  I think there are so many great lessons to be learned from this book.  Awareness, being the most important.  When people understand things they fear them a lot less.  Even so,  it is never okay to make another human feel as though they don't belong.  Ever.

I think that every child and parent should read this book.  It does have some language in it, and I never condone teenage sex, so it totally would have been a 6 star book for me if there wasn't, but even with that I think it is an important book to read.  It's a work of fiction, but it doesn't matter.  There is such a gripping message to this story, in my opinion.  Even the authors notes, and suggestions at the end of the book were so fantastic.  Touched me more than I can even explain in words.

Source:  I bought this book for myself.  I was not compensated in any way for this review.  These are my own PERSONAL feelings about the book.

Content:  There is a little descriptive sex scenes, but not too graphic, and there is language.
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As sad and harrowing as this story was, I could not put it down. I, as the reader, really felt every emotion from every single point of view. I sympathized with Emily. She made me remember how important the smallest things were as a teenager, and how that no way out feeling leaves you desperate. I wanted to scoop Chris up in my arms and just save him. The story enthralled me and kept me so wrapped up. I felt in the story the entire time, like I was part of it. This story will take You in so many directions and will have you questioning how you would handle a situation such as this. Be prepared to cry. Jodi Picoult truly shows her talent with this story. A must-read!
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Grab the tissues.  This story is both heart wrenching and happy at the same time.  As I started reading it, I felt sorry for Megan.  She had some horrible things happen to her.  But then she was able to get out of that situation and found a couple who took pity on her.  Then she meets the new cook, Nik.  And things take a turn for the better, and worse.

Devon Ashley puts us in a story that is scarily similar to what has happened to many girls when they are abducted.  This book isn't for the faint of heart, and it does have strong situations that would not be fit for the young adult.  It's classified as New Adult, becuase the main character is 19 at the "present" time in the book.  But her story starts when she was just 17.  This book is one of those that I feel people will either appreciate or hate.  Maybe it's becuase I have seen too much evil to not hate this book, becuase I thought it was amazing, and the strength alone that Devon Ashley would have to have in writing it.

If authors only wrote things that were easy and not controversal, then there wouldn't be many good books out there.  But, like I said, if you are not of the faint of heart, then I strongly suggest you pick up this book!
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Wow wow wow, what a beautifully heartbreaking story. Jonah and Kacey's story will leave you absolutely heart broken but happy to have shared their experiences with them.

Jonah is dying, his heart is failing but he still makes the most of the time he has and with the girl he accidentally falls for. The way he is and what he feels for Kacey is breathtaking, he brings life back to her dull life as she does to his.

Kacey is in a band and it's nothing she wants and it's slowly killing her, she's rejected by her parents for one mistake and she's been spiralling ever since until she wakes up on Jonah's sofa. Her life slowly begins to change for the better.

We watch them on their beautiful journey of trusting each other, watching Jonah live the time he has left with Kacey and his family and friends.

As the ending slowly creeps up the heartbreaks clenches harder and the tears just freely fell from my eyes and wouldn't stop, it was so upsetting.

This is the first book I've read by Emma Scott and I can't wait to read more from her, amazing tear-jerker of a book.

Full Tilt is a story about what it means to love with your whole heart, to sacrifice, to experience terrible grief and soaring joy. To live life with all its beauty, and all its pain, and in the end to be able to smile through tears and know you wouldnt have changed a thing.
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I have chosen a five star rating because it truly has earned it.  The story fully takes you thru a tragic accident from start to finish.  How the surviving husband deals with his grieving in a realistic way.  You feel what he feels and it is just a heart wrenching struggle.  I was surprised ,  i couldn't stop til i reached the end of the book.  I believe it warrants the high rating
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I don't know where to start this review. There's so much to say, but too few words to express the impression this book made on me. It made an impact on my heart from the start. Then it nearly cleaved it in two, before finally stitching it back together.
If you haven't read the first book, I strongly urge you to do so.
The gamut of emotions this story made me go through was nothing short of exhausting. By the end, I was a complete teary mess. It's not attractive at all to cry the way I did, so it's a good job I wasn't in public.
Lena and Nate are amazing characters, but in this book - more so than book one - I fell for Marcus too. It's all well and good writing strong main characters but if your secondary characters feel more like something to fill the story rather than a real part of it, then that turns me off. I can tell you honestly, that didn't happen with Caught By Her. There was a whole host of secondary characters that impacted on me in different ways. But Marcus really stands out from the crowd and I am so glad he gets his own story next month.

I really want to say how beautifully this story was written. There was so much going on, and it was done so well. My words would never do it justice, you just have to read it for yourself and see what I mean.
GL Chapple doesn't fail to amaze and surprise the reader. There was a point where I sat for 30 minutes straight with a hard lump in the back of my throat and saliva in my mouth as I felt the urge to be sick. My poor old heart strings were tangled in a complete mess. I ugly cried, unabashedly, as I got to around 80%. So warning: have a pack of tissues ready.
GL Chapple is a talented author, of that, there is not a trace of doubt. I think if it came to it, I'd read her shopping list.
I can't wait for more wonderful stories from her and I can definitely say I am a fan for life.
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WOW I need to give this story more then 5 stars if. It's amazing the characters are all very different in there own lovable ways, and story kept me on my toes fight from the start of the book to the very end. This is very real and raw story which had my emotions all over the place, i love a book i get drawn into and i never want to put it down. There were times that i would laugh, cry because i felt there pain and i even wanted to hit someone ( mainly kellan dam that hot tattooed boy can get under your skin)as the story unraveled before my eyes .There was a lot oh OMG moments especially the ending that had me a emotional wreck that had me on the edge of my seat.
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OMG! I am still crying. This story was beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time. The relationship between Lilly and Jax is scorching and tear jerking. I have never cried this much over a book. Lilly has been heartbroken by Jax twice now and I just wanted to scream at him! I really didn't see this story ending this way. It threw me for a loop. The kind of friendship that Lilly and Jax share is remarkable. They are so in tune with each other. Of course they want to fight to keep it. But the emotional toll it is taking on both of them is awful. This was my first Ellie Wade book, but it won't be my last. Cant wait for the next one to see where the story of Jax and Lilly leads.

Reviewed for FMR Book Grind
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Absolutely heartbreaking and gut wrenching. This book was beautifully written, no doubt about that. The author portrays these amazing characters and a situation so unusual and believable that the reader becomes invested in their well being. The forbidden/taboo aspect aside, I was wrecked over the lives of these 5 siblings and the unfair burden weighing on both Lochan and Maya's shoulders, but especially Lochan, because he's such a sensitive and tormented soul inside. He would do anything and everything for his family. I can see how Lochan and Maya found both comfort and reprieve in one another, they were each other's rock in a screwed up scenario of neglect. They are teenagers, yet they function like adults out of necessity and nothing is more important to them than family. I admired their perseverance and devotion, how they took their responsibilities so seriously. I just couldn't buy into the actual relationship beyond siblings, but that didn't stop me from wanting to see them happy or to delve into the more philosophical questions about love and boundaries. And that ending, I knew there was no way it could end well and...it doesn't.
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Its 4:15 am and I'm sitting here trying to gather my thoughts. I just finished Bright Side and to say I have a book hangover is an understatement. I'm in a Book Coma right now. I feel like I can't come up with the right words to do this story justice. The emotions that Ms. Holden provoked with her writing are indescribable. Its been a while since I've had such a gut-wrenching reaction from a book. I don't want to give anything away, but I will tell you I couldn't put this story down. Please read this story!!!! And then Do Epic!!!