RELEASE DAY: Last Words by Shari J. Ryan

Cover Design: MadHat Books

Release Date: October 9, 2017

Synopsis

Last Words, where Non-Fiction meets Fiction, and the lines in between are blurred by forbidden love.

Amelia - 1942:

The inside of my closet held the last bit of my freedom before I was torn from my home and shoved onto a dark train.

Our destination was even darker. “Women and children to the right. Men to the left,” they shouted at us.

Everything was taken from me, leaving only the smoke filled air, piercing screams, and soul-burning cries.

I was slowly starved and weakened to the bone, but there was a man—a Nazi—who brought me extra food. He called himself a prisoner too, but he scared me, and I wondered if he was the enemy I should fear the most.

Emma - Current Day:

My grandmother hid her past in an old diary under her bed. The tattered, brown leather book sat there for years until she asked me to find it and read her unspoken words. Now, her stories and secrets are consuming every moment of my life.

She’s dying ... and asking for a man no one in our family has ever heard of.

I never imagined a hand-written book could change my entire life, but it has. It opened my eyes to a new beginning, and I learned that love is not the unsaid word my grandmother has refused to speak. It’s an action—it’s longevity, taboo and sometimes forbidden. Do we fight for what’s wrong, or do we spend our lives searching for what’s right?

Last words were never spoken because love doesn’t stop until a heart is no longer beating.

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About the Author

Shari J. Ryan is an International Bestselling Author of heartbreakers and mind-benders. Shari was once told she tends to exaggerate often and sometimes talks too much, which would make a great foundation for fictional books. Four years later, Shari has written eleven novels that often leave readers either in tears from laughing, or crying.

With her loud Boston girl attitude, Shari isn't shy about her love for writing or the publishing industry. Along with writing several International bestsellers, Shari has split her time between writing and her longstanding passion for graphic design. In 2014, she started an indie-publishing resource company, MadHat Books, to help fellow authors with their book cover designs, as well as assistance in the self-publishing process.

While Shari may not find many hours to sleep, she still manages to make time for her family. She is a devoted wife to a great guy, and a mother to two little boys who remind her daily why she was put on this earth.

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First… Oh my word! Have you ever seen such a beautiful cover? It’s completely fitting that this amazing cover would grace the words of Shari J. Ryan’s best book to date! I’ve read several of her other works and this stands out among the others… granted, this book is unlike any other book out there. Truly unique! Ryan writes that this is where non-fiction and fiction gather up and blur the lines of forbidden love. She really has woven this breath-taking story spanning generations of time and mixing a truly devastating past with a memorizing love story.

Ryan’s words are captivating… you WILL feel them deep in your soul. You can’t help but feel what Amelia goes through in that concentration camp… the starvation and mistreatment. It’s completely devastating to think  back on that time period. Ryan goes into such explicit detail that you feel transported back into time. This could have been a tough story to follow but it wasn’t. With the multiple POVs, it was easy to understand and follow the story through the past and to the present and back and forth. It was just so perfectly weaved together that I can’t help but think that this must have been a labor of love. Prepare yourself to experience the Last Words because that is what this is, an experience. 

I received an ARC of this book with the hope that I would leave an Unbiased Opinion. I was not required to leave a review, positive or otherwise, and my opinions are just that... my opinions.