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UNRAVEL

Unravel, September 2014
Fairfax #1
by Calia Read

Ballantine Books
Featuring: Lana; Naomi Carradine; Max
364 pages
ISBN: 0553394770
EAN: 9780553394771
Kindle: B00JBE987C
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"...everyone thinks I'm insane. But, I know he's real, and I know he needs me. Do you believe me?"

Fresh Fiction Review

UNRAVEL
Calia Read

Reviewed by Sherri Morris
Posted October 21, 2014

Women's Fiction | Suspense

Every once in awhile you read a book that was nothing like you imagined it would be. When you finish that last chapter, you are left sitting there saying WOW! This was exactly that book for me. I absolutely loved it. Saying too much about the story line, will take away from the reading experience and give away its secrets.

The story is a little confusing in the beginning since it jumps right in with Naomi Carradine in the Fairfax Psychiatric hospital for the last month.. When Naomi meets her new doctor, Dr Rutledge, she begins to tell her story. The story that led her up to the day she was admitted into Fairfax.

It isn't until we get the back story, do we learn about how and why Naomi is in her current situation. The story is told from Naomi's point of view and during her sessions with Dr Rutledge. Each session is a flashback into Naomi's past that takes the reader back to when Naomi meets those she cares for most in her life, her best friend Lana, Lachlan, and Max.

It is only when the past catches up to the present do we start to see the story unfold. All the while, the reader is wondering is Naomi really is crazy or not. And just when you think you have the ending figured out...Wham! Its steam rolls over you! I must say, that I certainly didn't see it ending the way it did.

Calia Read's Unravel is certainly a book that needs to be on everyone's reading list. It is considered new adult romance, but this isn't your typical romance. Calia Read's writing style flows beautifully throughout the entire book, that reader can not begin to see what the next page will bring. Calia Read is a new author for me, and I am curious as to what she will be doing with this, and since I could not put this book down, it certainly won't be my last.

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SUMMARY

One kiss can change everything. One month ago I was admitted to a psych ward. Yesterday, Lachlan told me I’m losing my mind. But I know what I saw. Will you believe me? Behind the walls of a mental hospital, Naomi Carradine feels her world breaking to pieces. She’s starting to believe all the voices questioning her sanity. Only visitors from the outside world keep her tethered to reality. But deep in her thoughts, Naomi is haunted by memories of a golden summer that twisted into a waking nightmare of obsessive love and fractured truths. Just home from college, Naomi moves in with her best friend, Lana, the daughter of a Virginia senator. At a lavish party thrown by Lana’s father, Naomi meets a sexy stockbroker named Max and finds herself unable to resist his charms. One fiery kiss and she’s going back for more, beginning a terrifying descent. Having witnessed the unspeakable, Naomi has only one hope of escape: unraveling the devastating secrets of her past. Unravel is intended for mature audiences.

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Unravel
UNRAVEL
#1.0 • September 2014

 

 

 

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