Showing posts with label blood and sympathy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blood and sympathy. Show all posts

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Blood & Sympathy by Lori L Clark, review by Dee

My rating: 3 of 5 hearts

Synopsis:

What would you do if you found yourself in love with the twin brother of the man who murdered your sister?

Claire Copeland has just graduated from high school with no plans for her future other than getting laid and partying the summer away on Devil's Fork Lake.

When her sister is murdered, Claire tries to understand why. Why the good daughter was taken, and she was left behind.

Now, she's found herself falling in love... with the twin brother of the man who murdered her sister.

Braden Sayer and his twin brother were incarcerated for murder when they were twelve years old. Braden's only connections to the outside world are through his uncle's visits and his pen pal Claire Copeland.

When Braden's released from juvie six months early for good behavior, his twin brother is less than happy about it and plots his revenge.

Now, he's fallen in love and by the time he figures out his brother's agenda, it may be too late.


****GRAPHIC LANGUAGE, SEX, VIOLENCE, AND ADULT SITUATIONS. TRIGGER WARNING - VIOLENCE AND RAPE****



*arc provided for an honest review *

I'm going to do this review a little differently, almost like a Pros/Cons list.  Let's go over what I did and didn't like.

I liked that this was an original storyline. I liked the twists to the story with all the characters involved. I liked the idea of where this could have gone. I also really liked the difference between our characters; brother vs brother, sister vs sister, dark vs light, good vs bad; almost like opposite ends of the spectrum for our characters. And I liked that the good of one was paired with the bad of the other.

But let me discuss what I didn't like. To me there was parts where I just needed more. The story almost felt like it was choppy because parts needed more details, more time needed to be spent on certain aspects instead of just glided over. Like when the body was found, more of her reaction, more of her devastation. More of why her dad hated her so much, he never really admitted to why. I just felt like it needed more. More as to what happened to her Ex and why Brandon didn't sell him out. I needed more explanations and reactions to a lot more of the story line. It would have helped me connect to the story more. 

All in all I thought it was a good book and a great storyline, I just didn't connect to it as well as I could have.


I give this 3 hearts 



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Monday, September 22, 2014

Blood and Sympathy by Lori L Clark release day blitz

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Title: Blood and Sympathy
Author: Lori L. Clark
Genre: New Adult romantic/thriller/suspense
Release Date: September 22, 2014


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Synopsis
What would you do if you found yourself in love with the twin brother of the man who murdered your sister?

Claire Copeland has just graduated from high school with no plans for her future other than getting laid and partying the summer away on Devil's Fork Lake.

When her sister is murdered, Claire tries to understand why. Why the good daughter was taken, and she was left behind.

Now, she's found herself falling in love... with the twin brother of the man who murdered her sister.

Braden Sayer and his twin brother were incarcerated for murder when they were twelve years old. Braden's only connections to the outside world are through his uncle's visits and his pen pal Claire Copeland.

When Braden's released from juvie six months early for good behavior, his twin brother is less than happy about it and plots his revenge.

Now, he's fallen in love and by the time he figures out his brother's agenda, it may be too late.

****GRAPHIC LANGUAGE, SEX, VIOLENCE, AND ADULT SITUATIONS. TRIGGER WARNING - VIOLENCE AND RAPE****   Blood & Sympathy Teaser #1
 
About the Author
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In 2009, after participating in NANOWRIMO, Lori L. Clark began to take the voices in her head seriously. Two New Adult contemporary romance novels, Different Roads, and I Breathe You, were published in 2013, and showed early success. The Heart Knows What the Heart Wants, a romantic suspense, released in March 2014. The Dead Tree, a literary thriller is scheduled to release 6/10/2014.

Lori is a member of Savvy Authors, the St. Louis Writers Guild, and Romance Writers of America.

Lori L. Clark was born in Iowa, where she spent the first forty-six years of her life. In 2007, she loaded up a moving van and relocated to Missouri, where she currently resides. Lori's only child is a very spoiled Min Pin named Barkley. When not writing, she reads and runs. She completed her first half marathon at the age of fifty.



 
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