The Darkest Sunrise by Aly Martinez | Review!
Sticks and stone will break my bones, but words will never harm me.
Whoever coined that phrase is a bald-faced liar. Words are often the sharpest weapon of all, triggering some of the most powerful emotions a human can experience.
"You're pregnant."
"It's a boy."
"Your son needs a heart transplant."
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me.
Lies.
Syllables and letters may not be tangible, but they can still destroy your entire life faster than a bullet from a gun.
Two words-- that was all it took to extinguish the sun from my sky.
"He's gone."
For ten years, the darkness consumed me.
In the end, it was four deep gravelly words that gave me hope of another sunrise.
"Hi. I'm Porter Reese."
Originally from Savannah, Georgia, USA Today Bestselling author Aly Martinez now lives on South Carolina with her four young children.
Never one to take herself too seriously, she enjoys cheap wine, mystery leggings, and baked feta. It should be known, however, that she hates pizza and ice cream, almost as much as writing her bio in the third person.
She passes what little free time she has reading anything and everything she can get her hands on, preferably with a super-sized tumbler of wine by her side.
My Review:
"She reminded me of a girl I might see cozied up in one of the overstuffed chairs at a coffee shop in the middle of August, desperately pretending it was December: sweatshirt wrapped around her, eyes aimed down at a book, plump lips sipping a steaming-hot chocolate while the hot sun blazed in from the window behind her."
This book... it was nothing short of amazing. Aly Martinez can freaking write stories that gives you all the feels. Her stories, her writing always centers around a women, kind of a damseled in distress type but with serious issues that have to do with something that happened in the past, a women stuck in her own nightmare, not being able to move on.
I had chills running down my spin at times, this book tore me open and made me think. All of Aly's books do that to me but there is something about her duets. Last summer I read her Retrieval duet, it blew my mind, it was amazing to read. Seems like she is on that same path again, if this duet is anything like Retrieval, I know that book two is going to blow up. Transfer was much more crazy insane, right now that's how I am feeling about The Brightest Sunset, I have a feeling it's going to get extremely crazy.
"The tiniest smile I'd ever seen played at her lips. She'd been beautiful before. But, in that second, she became extraordinary."
Aly is an amazing writer, she has ways of dragging you in and doesn't let you go until the last sentence. I don't want to give too much away because there is a follow up book that I haven't read yet either, so I am left on the edge of my seat, waiting and wondering what is going to happen and what Aly is going to put my heart through!
"No. Not like that. I'm talking about one where you'd spend the rest of your night touching your bruised lips, and I'd spend the rest of mine desperately trying to memorize the way you tasted."
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5 Stars!!!!!!!
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