One “hook up” gone bad becomes a viral nightmare for Jade and Allison will do anything she can to help her sister in their sometimes strained love/hate relationship. Allison, with her biting sense of humor does everything she can to keep people away while Jade does the exact opposite, pushing her boundaries with every male she conquers. Toying with their powers can be deadly, and they can lose control easily, especially as hormonal teens. They are both a succubus, thanks to a curse handed down through the generations. Orphaned and living with their deeply religious aunt, they must hide a secret that gives new meaning to the Kiss of Death. A little dark, filled with jagged edges, relationship interactions, gentle romance and told through the eyes and heart of a teen whose life will always be different from others her age, I was all on board for a new hidden gem to hold up to the light to watch it shine in all of its dark glory.Īllison and Jade are twins, different as night and day, one shuns the limelight and the other glories in the adoration of her peers, especially the boys. When you find that chemistry, you are hooked, no matter where you are taken. You have that perfect chemistry with the book, the characters, the plot and the dialogue.

And he must battle the ever-tempting chemical trip to oblivion.Īn uncommonly genuine account of a life destroyed and reconstructed, and a provocative alternative understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery, A Million Little Pieces marks the debut of a bold and talented literary voice.We all search for that one novel that stands out from the rest, no matter the genre. He must fight to survive on his own terms, for reasons close to his own heart. He insists on accepting sole accountability for the person he has been and the person he may becomeвЂ”emdash which he feels runs counter to his counselor's recipes for recovery. James refuses to consider himself a victim of anything but his own bad decisions. To James, their friendship and advice seem stronger and truer than the clinic's droning dogma of How to Recover. Inside the clinic, he is surrounded by patients as troubled as he: a judge, a mobster, a former world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute. A searing true story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation, told with the charismatic energy energy of Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the revelatory power of Burroughs' Junky.īy the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive.

A million pieces book