I’m pretty sure that the people on my Snapchat aren’t happy with me since I have countless messages I haven’t seen or answered. Most of it is of sexual content stuff I don’t want nor asked for. The only conversation I’m in the mood for is book or poetry-related.
Hey Everyone,
As you know, I have been trying this new thing for me where I tell you about a book I loved and share a free ebook link to that book if possible.
Why I picked this book?
I wanted to talk about this week’s novel. Ever since I read it, the novel I’m talking about is This Violent Heart by Heather Levy. However, I listened to it on audiobook, and I couldn’t find an ebook version to share with you, so I wanted to. The audiobook is pretty well done; we have two teen girls who live in a small southern Summer is more openly queer Devon is a closeted bisexual. Years after an issue with a client of hers, Devon returns to her hometown, where she starts finding clues to what really happened to her friend while understanding herself better.
First Lines:
I promise, I didn’t mean for any of this to happen. Soon, everyone is going to hate me. I don’t know—maybe you will too. I hate myself for so many things, but I don’t hate myself for what I’m about to do.
Remember when you gave me the book by that Neruda guy? You read that poem to me, the one about secretly loving obscure things, and you said how much you loved it. I’ve read it so many times and thought about how perfect and simple it is, and it scares me that I may never read it again. It’s funny—when it comes to love, how much it hurts, Neruda sure knew his shit.
I don’t even care that you’ll never see this. I just needed to get it out of my head before I do this. I’ve thought about things so much, and now I know some mistakes stay with you forever, deep in your belly, rotting you from the inside out. I only hope when you find out you’ll understand and that you won’t hate me.
I could never hate you. I really wish I could.
Goodreads Blurb:
Devon Mayes thought she was done with the small conservative town she once called home. She fled when she was eighteen after her best friend Summer took her own life, leaving Summer’s twin brother, Keaton, lost in his grief. But when tragedy strikes again, Devon has nowhere to turn but back to the place that first broke her heart.
Being back in Arkana means struggling with the old guilt that shrouds her bisexuality and her feelings for Keaton. There’s so much she’s still hiding from him—and so much of their shared past that’s now resurfacing.
It’s not long before Devon has reason to believe Summer’s tragic death wasn’t suicide after all. Summer had secrets, too…and she wasn’t the only one who didn’t want them exposed.
As Devon and Keaton piece together the mystery of what happened that fateful summer, they must reckon with their own truths before they can move forward. But one person will do whatever it takes to stop them.
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Alex
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