Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child
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Warrior Protect
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Two Kingdoms. Two problems. One solution. An arranged marriage is in the works to combine the lands...
Play To Kill
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Her Pretty Face
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The Dead and the Dark
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Imagine Riverdale crossing streams with Stephen King's The Outsider and you'll get a sense of this...
The Time of my Life
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The Paper Place
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Before anyone else is awake, on a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the...
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The Midwife of Auschwitz
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Auschwitz, 1943: As I held the tiny baby in my arms, my fingers traced the black tattoo etched...
BUT, when I looked at it on Goodreads, one of the tags was “historical fiction”. Has it come to this now, that 1995 - the year I graduated from Uni - is seen as historical fiction?!
I’m feeling a bit old.
Anyway, I’ll hobble on to the review…
Diana and Aurelle live next door to one another in a wealthy neighbourhood, but have nothing to do with one another until Diana’s brother unexpectedly dies. Diana has had a poor relationship with her brother, but he was clearly their parent’s favourite. Diana is pushed away by her parents, and she ends up next door with Aurelle.
They become close friends, decide to study at the same college, and live together in Aurelle’s family house near the university campus. It’s an idyllic setting. Classrooms in woodland, near a lake. It sounds beautiful.
Aurelle starts to go off the rails, whilst Diana’s art really takes off.
And then it all goes terribly wrong with misunderstandings, envy and obsession.
I didn’t see the latter half of this book coming at all, and it was a real shock!
The whole book was fascinating, though. A prime example of young adults cut loose from the relative stability of their families and left to do whatever they want. And what these girls want to do, especially Aurelle, just isn’t good for them.
So if you like a ‘good’ toxic relationship in a story, then this will be for you. I thoroughly enjoyed it
Merissa (12066 KP) rated Scorned (The Emrys Chronicles #3) in Books
Jul 5, 2021 (Updated Jul 17, 2023)
This continues the story nicely, giving Meuric and Catlin their own space and time to figure things out on their own, without well-meaning but sure-to-be-interfering, families. I thought the history/current aspect of the story was brilliant, giving extra depth to those we have already met in the previous stories.
I will admit to Cat growing on me. She annoyed me in Einion's book and it started off the same way, but she matured and had realisations in this book that helped me warm to her. Meuric was always a star, and my heart broke for the sorrow he has had to live with. I hope both Cat and Meuric have a happy future, but am content with their Happy For Now ending.
This has been a great series that I have loved reading and have no hesitation in recommending either this book or the series as a whole.
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Merissa
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Jul 5, 2021