Adult Literary Fiction
Published by BookTrope
Released July 2014
~Synopsis~
It’s
September when good girl Via Sorenson stumbles into a Seattle strip club, drunk
and alone on her twenty-first birthday. Matt and Nick—best friends, bandmates,
and bouncers—do their best to shield her from their sadistic
cocaine-trafficking boss, Carlos. They don’t realize her daddy issues come with
a forty-million-dollar trust fund and a legacy she would do anything to escape.
She
is actually Violetta Rabbotino, who had been all over the news ten years
earlier when her father, an acclaimed abstract artist, came home in a rage,
murdered her mother, then turned the gun on himself. Young Violetta was spared,
hidden behind the family Christmas tree, veiled by the mysticism of its pretty
lights whose unadulterated love captivated and calmed her.
Now,
desperate to shed her role as orphaned victim, Via stage dives into a
one-hundred-day adventure with Matt and Nick, the bassist and drummer of
popular nineties cover band Obliviot. The rock-and-roll lifestyle is the
perfect distraction—until she is rattled by true love. As Christmas looms
closer, her notorious past becomes undeniable. How will she ever untangle
herself from her twisted string of pretty lights?
~Review by Jodie Rae~
I rated Please Pretty Lights by Ina Zajac FOUR LEAVES!
I
read this book in one sitting because it sucked me in and left me
wanting for more at the end. It really is an amazing book and I truly
recommend it. I will warn you, this book isn't for everyone. If you
love gritty, consuming, and emotional books, then this book is for you!!
Please Pretty Lights owned me from the first page to the last. It had my emotions all over
the place–from frustration to pure elation. Most of my
jumbled emotions were due to the heroine, Via, and her
understandable yet disturbing behavior. My heart truly ached for all
that had happened to her at the young age of eleven. A decade later on her twenty-first birthday everything changes for her.
After
that night, she becomes the exact opposite from the girl that teaches
Bible classes at her church to the girl that gets into sex and drugs,
and becomes a stripper. From the night, two very special are brought
her into her life, Matt and Nick. As the book goes on, the lives of the
three weave togther perfectly and they start to dependent on each
other. The story gets very dark by the end of the book. I don't want to say much more about the story without spoiling it, so you need to read it! I highly suggest it.
Ina
Zajac is an award-winning journalist, avid people watcher, and lover of quirk
and contrast. Her writing is heavily influenced by her
fascination with music, art, and her hometown of Seattle.
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