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The Interactive Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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iClassics: Beyond Engrossing iClassics unites the old and the new to create immersive experiences...

Road To Ruin

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Malicious Destruction of Property. Two counts of breaking and entering. Two counts of possession...

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Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game set inside a Japanese pop-up book. Fold and slide the...

Clare Parrott (294 KP) created a post

Jul 24, 2017

Road To Ruin (New Orleans Nights #1)
by Callie Hart

Malicious Destruction of Property.
Two counts of breaking and entering.
Two counts of possession of a controlled dangerous substance.
Four counts of assault.
Three counts of illegal gambling.
Three years served in Orleans Parish Prison.

Tommy ‘Havoc’ Kendrick’s rap sheet reads like a recipe for disaster: one part mayhem to three parts chaos. There’s no arguing the matter; he’s a bad guy, or at least he used to be. For the past five years, Tommy’s been on the straight and narrow, keeping his head down and staying out of trouble. He left the French Quarter behind, along with the New Orleans crime syndicates and underground fights that used to pay his bills. Trading in the high-octane thrill of earning money with his fists to work in an auto mechanic’s was hard, and yet somehow, despite everything, he’s made it work.

Until now.

Tommy hadn’t planned on seeing his brother again. When David Kendrick turns up on his doorstep with a bag full of money and four broken ribs, Tommy finds himself heading back to the place he swore he’d never return. Back to the fights. Back to the drinking, the drugs, and the women.

Back to a life he thought he’d left behind for good.

Nikita Moreau has lived in New Orleans all her life. She learned to drive there, lost her virginity there, bought her first house there, and she’s damned if she isn’t going to die there, too. As a prison psychologist at one of the country’s most dangerous facilities, she runs the risk of dying in the state of Louisiana on a daily basis, and yet she wouldn’t give it up for the world. There’s nothing more satisfying than helping those everyone else has given up on. Nothing more rewarding than fixing something everyone said was broken.

The day she meets Tommy Kendrick, however, she learns a painful lesson: sometimes a person is too broken to be fixed. Sometimes a person is beyond reach and cannot be saved. The tall, dark and handsome, tattoo-covered devil is danger personified. She knows this. She knows he’s bad news. So then why can’t she stop thinking about him? Why can’t she stay away from him?

And, most importantly, why won’t she save herself?

*** Road To Ruin is part one in a two-part story. Part two will be coming out soon! Be advised: Road To Ruin is a dark romance novel that contains graphic scenes. As such, this book is only suitable for readers 17+ ***

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Sophia (Bookwyrming Thoughts) (530 KP) rated Daughter of Deep Silence in Books

Jan 23, 2020

You know what happens when you read a little over a hundred pages and rage for two full pages in a reading notebook?

You don't continue the book. You mark it as a DNF because you don't want to spend approximately eight pages raging and raging over a four hundred page book when you can read another book.

As you can see, I did exactly that.

But never, never have I ever wanted to throw a book out the window SO BADLY as I want to do with Daughter of Deep Silence. This is an absolute, horrifying mess disguised as a book with a gorgeous cover and an absolutely beautiful interior layout. Daughter of Deep Silence is really about a girl who is so hell-bent on revenge, she's become obsessed and obviously needs to get a move on with her life.

It's obvious from early on in the book. I don't actually know much about Frances as a person from the fourth of the book I read. I know her plans and what happened on the Persephone with the flashbacks here and there, but I don't know Frances. The book screams revenge. It also screams obsessed, because what else could it be if you're keeping a bleeping notebook on each of the family members filled with little details among details about each member?
<blockquote>Over the past four years I've become an expert on Grey. An expert on everyone in the Wells family. I have the same kind of notebook on each one of them.</blockquote>
But Daughter of Deep Silence isn't just that. It's a carbon copy. An absolute carbon copy of Revenge, and I mean ABSOLUTE. It's worse than <a title="Unbreakable by Kami Garcia" href="https://bookwyrmingthoughts.com/dnf-audiobook-review-unbreakable-by-kami-garcia/"; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unbreakable</a> and Supernatural or The Hunger Games and <a title="The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau" href="https://bookwyrmingthoughts.com/review-the-testing-by-joelle-charbonneau/"; target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Testing</a> and other dystopian novels put together, because there's actually some difference. <a title="The Moon Dwellers by David Estes" href="https://bookwyrmingthoughts.com/review-the-moon-dwellers-by-david-estes/"; target="_blank" rel="noopener">There's a chance that I'll actually like the book.</a> (It's happened. I PROMISE.)

Daughter of Deep Silence, on the other hand? I don't even know where Revenge ends and the book actually begins I can distinguish nary a difference, and I'm completely disappointed.

There's revenge obviously. There's a reason behind both Frances' and Emily's vengeance, and this whole revenge idea didn't bother me at all. It's only just one similarity right? This could have gone on an entirely different route from early on and I wouldn't have complained about a single thing. Maybe not a single thing, but there would be less rage. But I should have seen the signs from the moment I picked up the book.
<blockquote>*peruses new books shelves, sees book*
Hey, didn't I want to read this? *picks up book and reads synopsis again*
Sounds like Revenge. I'll come back and think about it. *looks at other books and chooses two more*
Screw it. Let's give this a whirl. If I don't like it, I've got plenty of papery ammunition.</blockquote>
There's a disguise involved. It's revealed in a later season View Spoiler »Emily is actually disguised as someone else. Frances is asked by her best friend's father to change her identity to Libby O'Martin so she can be protected and be able to find a way to exploit the truth behind the fate of Persephone.
<blockquote>"It's the only way to keep you sage." He pushes the ring toward me. "It's the only way to figure out who did this and make them pay."</blockquote>
There's a politically powerful family. Both are senators, both are planning on running for president, both are famous, both have a mansion with French doors (at least, I'm pretty sure Revenge had the French doors). And both have a son named...

...wait for it...

Greyson. *whistles* Imagine that! I mean, so much is similar, and the son had to be named the exact same name as the one in the show I'm comparing this to? You have got to be seriously kidding me. View Spoiler »I started expecting Ryan to actually throw in a secret son or something.

I just... can't. Someone pick up my horrified self off the floor. I'll wake up later. Until then, Ella or Lupe can take over.

Daughter of Deep Silence is Revenge down to the very basic formula. Enough said.

<a href="https://bookwyrmingthoughts.com/dnf-review-daughter-of-deep-silence-by-carrie-ryan/"; target="_blank">This review was originally posted on Bookwyrming Thoughts</a>