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Albert Camus

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Not a "dark" book, but with dark themes - The Strange Her Love Series by Courtney Lane

Description:

No one is ever who you expect them to be. Scratch at the surface and prepare yourself for what you’ll see.”

What do you do when you're an awkward indie and corporate is the most attractive man you've ever met?

Charis is a nonconformist with an eclectic group of friends and a dysfunctional family. As a former child-prodigy, she's wise beyond her years and jaded before her time. Increasingly, she's beginning to question the constant need to sacrifice her beliefs to keep her family and friends afloat.

Enter, Wiley Kenzie. He says all the right things and looks the part of the perfect man for Charis. There's just more than one problem...

Porter Hanson is the typical bad boy, but not the kind that Charis would usually go for. When a celebration ends in near tragedy, Porter and Charis become victims of fate. While drawn together in unexpected ways, their dark pasts haunt them in ways neither anticipated.

I gave this trilogy a try because it's a long book. God knows how much I love long book especially if it's a well-written one like this one (totally worth every page!) I had a love-hate fascination with the characters, it was frustrating. This obsession a few characters had on the heroine was sickening. Each of them had their own secret and hidden agenda (consider yourself warned!) A page-turner suspense nonetheless. - Goodreads

”Most won’t believe what they see; their perception is reality”

After suffering a debilitating heartbreak, Charis falls back into her old ways of coping to get through. Wiley, sensing Charis’s mental torment, uses it to his advantage to pursue desires that fall mildly beyond the professional.

A surprising reconnection reignites feelings she thought she’d suppressed. When the unforgivable happens, Charis finds herself turning to the person she’d hurt the most.

With shocking revelations, reappearances, relationship changes, and the occurrence of a life-altering tragedy, the stakes have never been higher...and her love life has never been so turbulent.

This second instalment is as intriguing and shocking as the first with many dramatic revelations revealed along the way....family, work colleagues, friends and lovers. Who has your best interests at heart and what truly rules you more: career success or personal peace? - Goodreads

True love defies physicality. Look within to discover a connection that defies conventions.”

With the prospect of a new career opportunity within her grasp, Charis is quickly thrust into a life that appeals to her deepest desires. As she begins to warm up the idea of her denied dreams becoming a reality, her venture into bliss is quickly shattered. Cataclysmic events upend her world and unveil the explosive secrets of the ones closest to her.

While Charis continues to navigate around the upheaval in her life, her true desires are tested, and the people around her reveal their true intentions. To see her way through, she must rely on the one person she continuously runs away from, because he may be the only one who can save her from herself.

The third and final part of the trilogy takes Charis on a journey of forgiveness, acceptance and the allowing of the past to stay right there: in the past.[...]
Is Charis going to get her HEA? The road to discover that is a darkly intense, passion fuelled journey full of deceit, manipulation and brutal confessions with an ending that leaves you with tears in your eyes. - Goodreads

Includes all three books of the series

While this is not a "dark" book, it does contain dark themes. Not recommended for those sensitive to controversial scenarios and topics. Please read the PREFACE before purchasing

"Most won't believe what they see; their perception is reality" 

What do you do when you're an awkward indie and corporate is the most attractive man you've ever met? 

Charis is a nonconformist with an eclectic group of friends and a dysfunctional family. As a former child-prodigy, she's wise beyond her years and jaded before her time. Increasingly, she's beginning to question the constant need to sacrifice her beliefs to keep her family and friends afloat. 

Enter, Wiley Kenzie. He says all the right things and looks the part of the perfect man for Charis. There's just more than one problem... 

Porter Hanson is the typical bad boy, but not the kind that Charis would usually go for. When a celebration ends in near tragedy, Porter and Charis become victims of fate. While drawn together unexpectedly, their dark pasts haunt them in ways neither anticipated. 

As Charis navigates the harsh world of fashion, her true desires are tested. When cataclysmic events upend her world, and the secrets of the ones closest to her are unveiled; the one person she ran away from may be the only one who can save her from herself. 

About the author:
I’ve been creating my own little world since I was very young. When I was eight years old, I began to bring those worlds to life with pen and paper. 

Although I’ve had a few short hiatuses, writing has been of passion of mine for many years. I've always viewed my writing as a hobby or a purgative process; I never thought to share my very personal works with anyone outside of my family. Now, I’m taking the plunge and self-publishing my works. I’m very excited and apprehensive about the opportunity to share my work with people who may enjoy it. 

While I write across genres (I find it hard to stick to one genre), I do have an archetype when it comes to the female protagonist — they have to have certain brand of strength and layered personalities. There will often be a lot of darkness and depth to my stories, because I'm intrigued by characters who are thrust into "dark" situations that explore their psyche. 

I prefer gritty love stories, where the protagonist isn't necessarily the girl next door, or the girl you encounter in everyday life. In other words, I don't tend to write characters who are easy to fall in love with. 

The elements that will be common in my stories are: depth, controversy, thought-provoking and complex plots, and misfit characters. 


2 comments:

Unknown said...

This post looks so awesome! Thank you so much for participating in the Blog Tour.

CCAM said...

You're welcome;
I must say that the serious intrigued me, it sounds promising and now I'm very curious about it.