It’s one big thorny tangle of emotions and situations that have her living on a razor’s edge. Acceptance of one’s life, one’s self, one’s choices… whether those choices are bad and ugly and violent, or painful and hurtful and scarring. But despite Raeder exploring all these themes in this suspenseful and dark exposition, it almost seemed to distill to a singular, cohesive motif- acceptance. This story seems to be about so many things… love, desire, hate, revenge, forgiveness, addiction, hope and hopelessness. I felt swept away, and as the story crested and receded, raged and stormed, I was caught up in every word and emotion. A literary undertow that pulls you deeply into a story that’s all dark edges and twisted realities.
Leah Raeder’s writing is spectacular. As a voracious reader and lover of poetry and prose, it’s just the kind of writing that calls to me. It felt intimate, cathartic-a purging of wild emotions, unrestrained and honest. An immersion in a story that is both vibrant and shadowed.
The wolf that raised its head among sheep and devoured its way, ruthless and bloody, to freedom. My Review “I’m the black iris watered by poison. And Laney is going to show them just how true. And Armin and Blythe are going to help.īecause the rumors are true. When a ghost from her past resurfaces-the bully who broke her down completely-she decides it’s time to live up to her own legend. She’s not looking for new friends, but they find her: charming, handsome Armin, the only guy patient enough to work through her thorny defenses-and fiery, filterless Blythe, the bad girl and partner in crime who has thorns of her own.īut Laney knows nothing good ever lasts. College is her chance to start with a clean slate. If Laney could erase that whole year, she would. Mentally ill, messed up, so messed up even her own mother decided she wasn’t worth sticking around for. It only took one moment of weakness for Laney Keating’s world to fall apart. The next dark and sexy romantic suspense novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Unteachable.
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