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Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian...
Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1)
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London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat...
The Gravity of Birds
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In this compelling debut novel, an art authenticator and an art historian are employed by a famous,...
The Wangs vs. the World
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A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only...
The Red Word
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A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go,...
Before I Go
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A heart-wrenching debut novel in the bestselling tradition of P.S. I Love You about a young woman...
The Ghost Bride
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Publisher's Summary A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous...
Too Many Reasons to Live
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Rob Burrow is one of the greatest rugby league players of all time. And the most inspirational. As a...
Merissa (11874 KP) rated Shatter Me in Books
Dec 17, 2018 (Updated Apr 11, 2023)
There is a trigger warning at the start of this book and with good reason. The images that Alex Grayson conjures within your mind are horrific and heartbreaking. They will make your heart pound faster as the adrenaline pumps through your veins, your breath hitching as you read faster and faster, praying that the main female is going to be okay, even though you 'see' most of it through flashbacks so that you know she is... sort of.
This is also a story about trust, hope and friendship and the love that can follow if someone is prepared to be patient and help someone who is suffering from trauma instead of riding roughshod over them. There is darkness, there is beauty. There is horror and humour.
Shatter Me will make you sob, not just cry. There will be big, fat, ugly tears rolling down your face but you won't want to stop reading. I read this in one sitting as there was no way I was going to bed halfway through.
This is an exceedingly well-written and well-paced story that will blow your socks off. When I found out that this was a debut novel, I was astounded! I honestly can't wait for the next but at the same time am dreading it (if that makes any sense).
If you can read 'dark' subjects then I highly recommend this. However, please heed the trigger warning!
December 18, 2018
A Quiet Life
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From the author of the critically acclaimed debut, A Little Hope comes an enormously powerful and...