Sometimes the heart speaks in whispers, and by the time we hear, by the time we listen, it’s too late and we don’t know. Also, this book talks about Hurricane Katrina and how so many families were broken apart and forced to flee New Orleans, and become refuges in their own country. Ok, I need to stop here because I could spend all day re-reading and sharing all the highlights I have of all the delicious things that came from August. Because shortly afterward it took a serious turn for the better (though for the worse for what the characters go through). I signed up for the "bonus epilogue" that's to be released in April, but I'm really frustrated that I had to.

Iris really hasn’t had a very good life, she has been through a lot in childhood and now in adulthood. But after having an amazing night just baring their souls to one another in a bar, Iris confesses that she has a boyfriend, so their relationship can go no further than friendship. She created a shift in my own personal bubble that allowed me to see more sides of issues that are vital to understand as a woman who wants to breathe compassion most of all. Kennedy and her writings have been featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, TIME, O magazine, and many others. One thing to note, he didn’t change throughout the story, his venom never diluted, just distilled to potency and for that I must applaud Kennedy.Kennedy Ryan navigates through a sensitive topic with eloquence and compassion ensuring that I understood the standpoint of the heroine and felt compassion for her situation. It ended at 78% on my kindle app and included another novella of the author's (I hate when they do that!

With Long Shot she captures a crime which is deeply rooted in the societal inequality between women and men. I do not want to say too much about the storyline but I must say this- It's splendid, it's heartbreaking. With the connection these two have, you won't even have any space in your heart to deny they're meant to be.MAJOR trigger and content warnings for a lot of graphic rape, stalking, being trapped, and a lot of very graphic physical, emotional, and mental abuse.