Lily of the Valley by Sarah Daltry

 

Synopsis

 

This isn't a sweet and innocent coming of age story. If dirty talk, bedroom toys, and threesomes offend you... this is not your book. There are also no billionaires, strippers, or virgins. This is just the story of typical college kids trying to connect to each other. "No one tells you about pain. They tell you that it hurts, that sometimes it's consuming. What they don't tell you is that it's not the pain that can kill you. It's the uncomfortable numbness that follows, the weakness in your body when you realize your lungs may stop taking in air and you just can't exert enough energy to care. It's the way taste and color and smell fade from the world and all you're left with is a sepia print of misery. That's when the shift starts - the movement from passive to active. I fall asleep, hoping that the morning will bring back the pain. At least the pain is a thing." Plagued by a dark past, Jack sees college as a way out. Desperate to escape the area where he grew up, the people who know his secrets, and his own family, he deals with his problems through alcohol and meaningless sex. When he first sees Lily, she's the epitome of everything he hates. Yet something about her makes Jack rethink everything he knows and assumes about other people. Now, with the help of his best friend and lover, Jack has to decide if he wants to pursue something that he knows will only end badly. Can Lily be one of the few people who can see Jack for who he really is - or will his darkness be too much for her to handle?

 

 

My Review

 

 I got this book on sale on Amazon for Free.....
 

I  have to say I think I should have had to read the other book in order to fully understand this book.

This book was not a bad book but also not great I give it 3 stars out of 5

I did love the Characters.
Jack with his suicidal nature and his dark history, the only way to cope with this is with meaningless sex, lots of alcohol and behaving like a dushbag. Alana with her self-destructive lifestyle and thinking everything needs to be fix with sex. Then we get Lily aka princess she is the innocent girl who believe in not judging people from their past. I do believe that she herself has a dark past but it is not mention in the book I just get the feeling.

I loved the storyline and that kept me reading on with this book not the X-rated scenes
 

 It felt like the Author was trying to shock the reader with Jack and Alana relationship and the X-rated scene's. I would not recommend this book to 1st time adult romance readers or who is a bit sensitive to these type of things.

If these scenes was not so disturbing and shocking I would have given the book 4.5 stars.
 

but overall not to bad book.

About the Author
Sarah Daltry writes about the regular people who populate our lives. She's written works in various genres - romance, erotica, fantasy, horror. Genre isn't as important as telling a story about people and how their lives unfold. Sarah tends to focus on YA/NA characters but she's been known to shake it up. Most of her stories are about relationships - romantic, familial, friendly - because love and empathy are the foundation of life. It doesn't matter if the story is set in contemporary NY, historical Britain, or a fantasy world in the future - human beings are most interesting in the ways they interact with others. This is the principle behind all of Sarah's stories.

Sarah has spent most of her life in school, from her BA and MA in English and writing to teaching both at the high school and college level. She also loves studying art history and really anything because learning is fun.

When Sarah isn't writing, she tends to waste a lot of time checking Facebook for pictures of cats, shooting virtual zombies, and simply staring out the window.

xoxo