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Monday, May 27, 2019

Romine Reviews - How to Cope with Intense Drama and Survive by M Lemont & Taylor Green

Blurb
Every 13 minutes someone in the United States dies by their own hand. More than 41,000 died last year and 1,400,000, suicide attempts.
One out of every four people suffer from some form of mental illness and go undiagnosed until tragedy strikes. If you know someone that has been emotionally abused, have had abusive parents, like a stepmom or stepdad, or know someone with severe mood swings, or a person who’s been bullied, they could be affected and have a mental disorder. This book is not a manual, inspiration, or a self-help guide. It is based on a true story of how one woman found the courage and strength to survive the cruelty and emotional trauma of her family. It’s an intense real-life drama, intriguing and poignant; it deals with serious challenges related to mental illness and could be upsetting for some people who have endured similar incidents of trauma.
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Review

It took me a long time to read this book. When I was reading How to Cope with Intense Drama and Survive, I found myself gripped and propelled forward with a pace and nuance I have rarely experienced. I love to read. I am a writer, so I read a lot. This review is difficult, not in the sense that I have anything negative to say, but I am somewhat speechless. As a woman who has a family history filled with current and past mental illness, this was a very difficult read.

The narrative is enthralling and concise. The descriptions are horrific and mind-blowing. The emotional upheaval I experience throughout this book is unmatched thus far in my lifetime. The only thing I can equate this book to is the ocean. Beautiful, clarifying, refreshing, and inspiring. In the same breath, this story, like the ocean, is overwhelming, thought-provoking, real, emotional, horrific, and powerful.

How to Cope with Intense Drama and Survive is the closest dual sided narrative about mental illness in the world. Leaving out the medical jargon and social stigmas it tells the hard, ugly truth. Pulling you in and not letting go, even when you walk away from reading it for a while. It changes your perspective, your empathy, and your understanding of the devastation mental illness has on not only the person but the people surrounding them.

A few years ago, I watched a scene in one of my favorite shows, The Blacklist. In it, the Main Character describes the aftermath of suicide.

Have you ever seen the aftermath of a suicide bombing? I have. … The shock wave knocked me flat, blew out my eardrums. I couldn’t hear. The smoke… It was like being underwater. I went inside. A nightmare. Blood. Parts of people. You could tell where (he) was standing when the vest blew. It was like a perfect circle of death. There was almost nothing left of the people closest to him. 17 dead, 46 injured. Blown to pieces. The closer they were to the bomber, the more horrific the effect. That’s every suicide. Every single one. An act of terror perpetrated against everyone who’s ever known you… Everyone who’s ever loved you. The people closest to you… the ones who cherish you… are the ones who suffer the most pain, the most damage.

This emotional speech shook my core. This book flattened me.


Kudos to M LeMont and Taylor Green on such a masterpiece. Well done. 

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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Romine Reviews - Three for the Win by Keta Diablo

Blurb

Eli Trace and Hollis Rowan have been friends in the small town of Barrows since childhood. Their lives are changed forever when Stede Marrow rides in on his big shiny motorcycle. After he saves Eli from drowning in the creek, Eli introduces him to Hollis.

One look is all it took for Stede and Hollis to fall in love. Eli soon realizes he just crushed his own dreams of happiness and Stede wonders why he didn't just keep on riding down that road to nowhere. He's on the run from the law and to tell his new best friends the truth could put their lives in danger.

Three For the Win is about a love triangle between two men who love the same woman and a woman who loves them both in her own way. And then there's the bullies of Barrows who won't tolerate a tough-as-nails stranger threatening the control and power they've held over the town for years.

Danger twists and turns like a maze through Barrows and not everyone makes it out alive.


Three For The WinThree For The Win by Keta Diablo
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Three for the Win - First off Keta Diablo always delivers I can always look forward to a sweeping romance when I sit down to read one of her latest releases. Three for the Win is no exception to this rule. Well paced, engaging, funny and also heartbreaking.Three for the Win reflects how love is not always cut and dry. It is messy, complicated and never easy.

Keta's characters are always very original, never cookie cutter and always very intense. She left out the heated scenes this time around opting for a sneak peek and let the readers imagination do the rest of the work.

Three for the Win is well crafted, beautifully written and a great book to snuggle up to on a rainy night. Bravo to Keta once again, looking forward to her next romantic entanglement!


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