Everything done in darkness, will eventually be brought into the light.
I ran, but all it did was keep me one step ahead of my past. I tried to start over; new name, new identity. But you can't change your soul.
A fresh start at college was just what I needed. For a while, it worked. I was the party girl, the one that seemed confident, but it was a lie.
When guys kissed me--I felt only pain.
When they touched me--Nothing but fear.
Deep inside, every girl wants to be the beauty in the story, to find someone that will see you as their world.
But the truth? I was the beast. And as much as I wanted redemption, I wasn't fool enough to think I'd ever get it.
Until he walked into my life.
I wasn't prepared to fall for someone. My scars were too deep, the wounds too raw. But he offered me peace, he offered me security. I should have known it was just another lie--I should have known that falling in love with my professor was a bad idea.
But I was powerless to stop myself from falling.
And he was powerless to catch me.
Because the darkness finally caught up to me, and as fate would have it, a cruel twist almost bled me dry. But I'm stronger than I knew. I'm stronger than you think.
You think you know my story, but you don't....after all everyone has Shame in their lives-- and I'm no longer afraid to show you mine.
I ran, but all it did was keep me one step ahead of my past. I tried to start over; new name, new identity. But you can't change your soul.
A fresh start at college was just what I needed. For a while, it worked. I was the party girl, the one that seemed confident, but it was a lie.
When guys kissed me--I felt only pain.
When they touched me--Nothing but fear.
Deep inside, every girl wants to be the beauty in the story, to find someone that will see you as their world.
But the truth? I was the beast. And as much as I wanted redemption, I wasn't fool enough to think I'd ever get it.
Until he walked into my life.
I wasn't prepared to fall for someone. My scars were too deep, the wounds too raw. But he offered me peace, he offered me security. I should have known it was just another lie--I should have known that falling in love with my professor was a bad idea.
But I was powerless to stop myself from falling.
And he was powerless to catch me.
Because the darkness finally caught up to me, and as fate would have it, a cruel twist almost bled me dry. But I'm stronger than I knew. I'm stronger than you think.
You think you know my story, but you don't....after all everyone has Shame in their lives-- and I'm no longer afraid to show you mine.
I can't even begin to tell you how much I LOVED this book.
Oh my God. I loved Lisa in the other two books. She made me laugh so much, but in this book we get to see the real Lisa. The real woman behind the fun and smart mouth.
She went through such a horrific past. Domestic violence comes in all sorts of abuse, whether it's manipulation, violence, name calling, mental abuse, it all leads to the same thing, domestic Violence. No one should have to be in that kind of relationship and I hope, like I did myself, other people find a way out of that whole they get themselves into. There are millions of people out there ready to help you, sometimes it feels like there's no way out, but I promise, there is always away. You just have to take that first step in believing it.
I don't have the contact information at hand to write in this blog post, but if you search in google, you'll find numbers to women aid groups that will help you.
This book is about Lisa's past coming back to haunt her. What happened to her is so shocking, so sickening that I just wanted to pull her from the book and hold her.
Rachel Van Dyken is such an amazing writer. She did it again with this book because I was completely hooked to it and couldn't put it down until I'd finished. It had me gripping the edge of my seat, my heartbeat race because i needed to know what happened.
Some parts where predicted and other parts I just took a guess at and found I was right, but even guessing the outcome still had me so freaking shocked I almost screamed the house down and woke my kids up.
It was so freaking good.
Oh and we have Professor Blake ;) Oh jesus, I fell in love with him and i'm pretty certain he could seduce a nun into bed. I'm not kidding. You'll need to take a cold shower after hearing the things he says.
And like the other books in the series, Rachel and her wise words affected me more than any other book I've read. It held so much truth, so much wisdom, I even found myself wanting to change certain aspects of my life. I can't even begin to tell her how truly inspiring her words are, the way she fits them into the story, the way she makes you feel them down to your very core. They hold so much meaning it's hard not to grasp ahold of them.
5* But just like the other three in the series, it deserves so much more.
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