SYNOPSIS:
You met them in
Forget Me Not. Now, hear Jack’s story.
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 sex.
When he first sees Lily, she’s the epitome of everything he hates. Yet something about her makes Jack rethinks 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?
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 sex.
When he first sees Lily, she’s the epitome of everything he hates. Yet something about her makes Jack rethinks 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: 5 Stars
| If you haven’t read Forget Me Not don’t worry. Lily of the Valley takes place at the same time. Only it is in Jack’s point of view. That being said I loved it just as much as I loved Forget Me Not. We get to see what makes Jack tick. We get to learn more about his family and how he truly feels for Lily. Jack comes from a dark place and Lily is his light. Alana is there for support but she would follow Jack into the darkness quicker than you can say stop. Jack and Alana boy they sure do know how to tear each other apart but love one another in the way that they need at that time. I have to say their relationship starts off rocky but then it smooth’s out as they begin to learn about one another. Their sex if freaking awesome, I mean who wouldn’t want to try what they did? I can’t get enough of Jack. I don’t want to give too much away because if you haven’t read either book then I might spoil it. I can tell you that Jack is in college when he meets Lily. Everyone makes the wrong impression of him. Yes he is a bad boy but he is a hard worker trying to get by like everyone else. I didn’t go to college so in a way I got a glimpse of how it could have been. I highly recommend this book as well as Forget Me Not.
AUTHOR BIO:
Sarah Daltry writes erotica and
romance that ranges from sweet to steamy. She moves around a lot and has
trouble committing to things. Lily of the Valley is her third full length
novel, although she also has several story collections and two novellas
available. Her other novels are Forget Me Not, the story that tells Lily’s
version of events, and Bitter Fruits, which will be released by Escape
Publishing in December. 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.
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Excerpt
“You realize this is everything?
Like my entire life happens tonight,” he says.
Neil’s never come out and said so
much, although I read it in him. Music is his way out. He doesn’t talk about
his life. He lives off campus, alone, in the shittiest house I’ve ever seen,
but hell, he’s twenty something and when he’s on this side of the country, he
lives in his own house. That’s still pretty fucking sweet. But every so often,
something in Neil’s face tells me that he has plenty of experience with the
things we write about. In the band, though, neither of us is our past. We’re
just a singer and a bassist with nothing but right now between us.
“Because I wasn’t nervous enough,
right?” I ask.
The
joke doesn’t cover the fact that I feel the same anxiety that Neil does,
although for different reasons. For him, this is his shot. If tonight goes
well, the road opens up for him. For me, it’s a bigger crowd with more of
my own songs. And there’s that stupid voice that keeps hoping Lily saw a poster
around school and will make her way to the show. I know Alana was here earlier,
but when I check for Devon and Eric, she’s gone. She wouldn’t leave, so I assume
she’s in the bathroom.
“You’re good. I sometimes wonder if
you even know that,” Neil says, but any chance of that being a conversation
fades immediately as Eric and Devon come back. We each down a shot of tequila
and chase it with a beer before it’s time to get onstage. I didn’t stick to my
plan to stay sober, but as I walk out on the stage, I’m glad I drank enough to
anesthetize the heartbreak that bursts within me.
She’s here.
Lily looks fucking incredible. I
don’t know where she found the dress she’s wearing, but she doesn’t even look
the same. The sweet girl I fell in love with is there, but this new Lily is
somehow wilder and tougher. She’s still beautiful, but now she looks as
dangerous as she is. And it’s unnerving, because if I thought I wanted her
before, I had no idea what it felt like truly to want.
I look down at her face and her eyes
meet mine. My body reacts instinctively and begins to play the notes, but my
mind is lost in her. I love her; any doubt is gone. Her eyes look to me with a
silent reverence and she opens her lips slightly. I want to lean over right now
and kiss her, to feel her body against mine, to smell strawberries as I breathe
her in, but I keep playing. I don’t know what the story is with Derek, but I
see in her that there’s nothing except us now. I have a million questions, a
million things I need to say. But first, we have a show to play, and I focus on
that. My eyes don’t leave hers for the entirety of our set.
AUTHOR TOP TEN
Top Ten:
Author’s Favorite Video Games:
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Borderlands 1 and 2
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Fallout 3
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Persona series
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Silent Hill series
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Final Fantasy series
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Skyrim
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Dragon Age series
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Mass Effect series
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Fable series
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Bioshock series
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Magic: The Gathering
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Perfect Dark
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Heavy Rain
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LA Noire
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Catherine
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Zuma
Author’s Favorite Bad Boys:
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Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights
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Jake Barnes from The Sun Also Rises
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Will from Infernal Devices
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Lord Byron
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The Scarecrow in Batman Begins
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Lucifer from Supernatural
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Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice
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James Dean
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Damon from Vampire Diaries
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V from V for Vendetta
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