*BOOK REVIEW* Reclaiming the Sand- A. Meredith Walters
Reclaiming the Sand Synopsis:
Bully and victim.
Tormenter and tormented.
Villain and hero.
Ellie Mccallum was the bully. The Tormenter. The Villain. Taking what she wanted, stomping over anyone that got in her way. Feelings, futures, and relationships be damned. She felt no emotional connection to anyone or anything. A sad and lonely existence for a young woman who had come to expect nothing more for herself. Her only happiness coming from making others miserable.
Particularly Freaky Flynn.
Growing up, Flynn Hendrick was known only as “Freaky Flynn.” He lived a life completely disconnected even as he struggled to become something more than that boy with Asperger’s. He was taunted and teased, bearing the brunt of systematic and calculated cruelty, ultimately culminating in a catastrophic turn of events that brought Ellie and Flynn’s worlds crashing down.
But then Flynn and Ellie grew up.
And moved on.
Until years later when their paths unexpectedly cross again and the bully and the freak are face to face once more.
When labels come to define you, finding yourself feels impossible. Particularly for two people disconnected from the world who inexplicably find a connection in each other.
And out of the wreckage of their tragic beginnings, an unlikely love story unfolds.
But a painful past doesn’t always want to let go. And old wounds are never truly healed…and sometimes the farther you try to run from yourself the closer you come to who you really are.
REVIEW:
Poets write to be heard, Authors write to speak for those who can’t. In the incandescent rain of all the books that flow through my iPad, this review was probably the most emotional to write. Today’s review is on Reclaiming the Sand by A Meredith Walters.
Modeling a story that has never been told in this caliber. A bully. A victim. Two hearts. Two stories. In the poetically driven heart rendering book Reclaiming the Sand the emotional of the two characters don’t match words to a page. The flawless writing of such an emotional story brought me to tears. Such as a kind of novel that breaks through boundaries Reclaiming the Sand demonstrated a raw, sensitive and exposed story of Flynn, a male who grows up with Asperger’s. A tormentor, a friend or a lover Ellie comes into his life. This friendship that is created really did shed such bare and pointed passion.
The narrative guides past and present as Walters describes in-depth a pain, a life, a connection that cannot be faked. The narrative relates to not only the aspect of Asperger’s and the reality of people are treated, but also to the thin line between Bully and Victim. A ridiculous amount of kids get bullied at school, Walters through Ellie’s background and Flynn’s moving forward. The heartbreak and warmth are uncanny in a striped, raw, and flawless rendition of love, passion and two characters’ whose connection is more than the words that we speak every day. This book was a BEYOND Lit-Love star, because It hit chords of pain and suffering but also strung to remind us that trust, friendship and believing in yourself is important.
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A. Meredith Walters Bio:
The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Contemporary and Paranormal romance including The Find You in the Dark and Bad Rep series as well as the upcoming stand alone romance, Reclaiming the Sand, and a dark new adult series for Gallery Books.
A. Meredith spent ten years as a counselor for at risk teens and children. First working at a Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault program and then later a program for children with severe emotional and mental health issues. Her former clients and their stories continue to influence every aspect of her writing.
When not writing (or being tortured with all manner of beauty products at the hand of her very imaginative and extremely girly daughter), she is eating chocolate, watching reality television that could rot your brain and reading a smutty novel or two.
A. Meredith is represented by Michelle Johnson with the Inklings Literary Agency
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