{"id":16187,"date":"2016-09-19T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=16187"},"modified":"2016-09-18T10:32:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T15:32:22","slug":"releaseday-review-dark-darkest-before-dawn-by-stevie-j-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=16187","title":{"rendered":"#releaseday #review #dark &#8211; Darkest before Dawn by Stevie J Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10726\" src=\"https:\/\/obsessedwithmyshelf.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/darkestbanner-sbpr-releaseblitz.jpg?resize=474%2C175\" alt=\"darkestbanner-sbpr-releaseblitz\" width=\"474\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cDark, gritty and utterly captivating. I couldn\u2019t put this book down!\u201d &#8211; USA Today Bestselling Author, Natasha Knight<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10728\" src=\"https:\/\/obsessedwithmyshelf.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/darket-before-dawn-ebookcover.jpg?resize=474%2C750\" alt=\"darket-before-dawn-ebookcover\" width=\"474\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Blurb:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sixty-four days in captivity. Sixty-four days to lose yourself\u2014or find yourself.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m Ava Donovan. I was abducted at the age of nineteen. I\u2019m told I\u2019m a survivor, but the truth is, I only survived because he saved me. Even when he kept me locked in that room\u2014he saved me.<br \/>\nConstantly wondering when and how you will die, that does something to you. To your mind. But what do you do when it does something to your heart? What do you do when the man holding you captive seems just as broken as you are, when his mere presence becomes a comfort you crave\u2014when you love him even though you shouldn\u2019t?<\/p>\n<p>You smile and tell yourself it\u2019s okay because love has no morals.<br \/>\nSixty-four days in captivity gave me a love most people will never have and my freedom took it all away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angies-review.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6154\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angies-review.png?resize=230%2C50\" alt=\"angies review\" width=\"230\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\\<\/p>\n<p>I received this book from the author for an honest review.<\/p>\n<p>What the what what did I just read?\u00a0 How can Stevie make me love a crazy cold blooded killer?\u00a0 How does she do this to me?\u00a0 How does she get into my head and make me fall for the darkest and blackest of souls and feel they are worth my love and devotion??\u00a0 HOW!!!<\/p>\n<p>Max\u2026I mean if the prologue doesn\u2019t make you understand what is up with him then you should read anymore.\u00a0 I mean that will mess anyone up\u2026and mess him up it did.\u00a0 Max is not a good guy. Period.\u00a0 He is a bad guy looking to save his sister but in the mix he finds her\u2026Ava.<\/p>\n<p>Ava was out with her boyfriend when she is kidnapped and stuck in a human trafficking situation.\u00a0 I mean not the way you expect your date to go.\u00a0 When she sees Max she is scared but after time she feels safer with him\u2026uhm what!!\u00a0 How do you feel safer with someone who is involved with this stuff but they do.<\/p>\n<p>As the story unfolds we see that Max and Ava have a past connection.\u00a0 A connection we didn\u2019t see coming.\u00a0 Max and Ava\u2019s love story is not hearts and flowers people.\u00a0 If you are wanting a traditional love story welllllll why in the heck did you grab this author because she doesn\u2019t do traditional at all.\u00a0 If you like dark and twisted with a side of what the heck did I read then you will love Max and Ava\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10727\" src=\"https:\/\/obsessedwithmyshelf.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/darkest-nowlive2.jpg?resize=474%2C247\" alt=\"darkest-nowlive2\" width=\"474\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BUY NOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Amazon US: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2cDgNWm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/2cDgNWm<\/a><br \/>\nUK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B01LX5EEKO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/<wbr \/>dp\/B01LX5EEKO<\/a><br \/>\nCA: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/dp\/B01LX5EEKO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/dp\/<wbr \/>B01LX5EEKO<\/a><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nAU: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/dp\/B01LX5EEKO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/<wbr \/>dp\/B01LX5EEKO<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10732\" src=\"https:\/\/obsessedwithmyshelf.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/darkest-teaser2large.png?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"darkest-teaser2large\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">ADD TO GOODREADS: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2biDLmc<\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10730\" src=\"https:\/\/obsessedwithmyshelf.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/darkest-teaser5.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"Woman with perfect body hugged by handsome man\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About the Author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Stevie J. Cole is a secret rock star. Sex, drugs and, oh wait, no, just sex. She\u2019s a whore for a British accent and has an unhealthy obsession with Russell Brand. She and LP Lovell plan to elope in Vegas and breed the world\u2019s most epic child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Author Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/authorsteviejcole\">Facebook<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steviejcole\"> Twitter <\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7736491.Stevie_J_Cole\">Goodreads<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10733\" src=\"https:\/\/obsessedwithmyshelf.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/darkest-teaser3.jpg?resize=474%2C319\" alt=\"darkest-teaser3\" width=\"474\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDark, gritty and utterly captivating. I couldn\u2019t put this book down!\u201d &#8211; USA Today Bestselling Author, Natasha Knight Blurb: Sixty-four days in captivity. Sixty-four days to lose yourself\u2014or find yourself. I\u2019m Ava Donovan. I was abducted at the age of nineteen. I\u2019m told I\u2019m a survivor, but the truth is, I only survived because he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=16187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#releaseday #review #dark &#8211; Darkest before Dawn by Stevie J Cole<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-4d5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16201,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187\/revisions\/16201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}