Holy
Christmas trees people. It has been an INSANE December around the Corner Table
House and in all honesty, these days I’m sort of feeling as if I’m hanging on
by my fingernails. (The ones I’ve been looking at for days and thinking ‘I’ve got to remember to cut those damn
things!’) As ever, reading is the break I can use to escape all the shit storm
of my own life and focus on something else, at least for a little while. This
month hasn’t been too different on that accord, so now it’s time for me to
share with you my thoughts and feelings about one of the A.M. Johnson books
(she is the December Featured Author of the Month, after all).
Possession
Avenues Ink series, book 1
I’ve gushed
about this book more than once since I read it earlier this month and then
proceeded to mow through the other two books in the Avenues set. Needless to say I really loved them all – the brothers
Declan, Liam, and Kieran each have compelling, interesting, heart-wrenching
stories. Each of them has demons that he’s trying to overcome.
For Declan,
those demons are a very real, very threatening, thing.
His mental
illness is one that has made him different from a young age. It made it
difficult to be with people – to interact or to connect with them. The voices
in his head are relentless and have driven him to the brink more than once. Then
Paige appeared in his life. She brought acceptance, love, and silence. And when
she left it destroyed him.
This book
is about being willing to open up again. It’s about being willing to be
vulnerable and to put yourself and your heart at risk again. For Declan it’s
about putting his sanity at risk.
I’ve read a
few of A.M. Johnson’s books now and I can honestly say that each one has
touched me in a different way. Each one has moved me to tears, to laughter.
Each story has reached into my chest and squeezed my heart to bleeding.
Possession did all of this and more. I
finished this story a little bit in love with Declan myself – at least part of
the reason why I dived so quickly and thoroughly into the rest of the series
was simply to see more of Declan. (But then there was Liam (oh my God!) and
then Kieran, LOL!) I adored Paige and Declan’s story because it was raw, it was
emotional and real, and it left you – aka ME – dying for more.
So
obviously, I recommend this book and the others in the Avenues Ink series as must reads. I think you’ll enjoy them. God
knows, I did.
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I hope
everyone has had a brilliant Christmas season and that their holidays have been
wonderful. Until next time, happy reading!
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