**Mature Content Warning** Recommended for ages 17+ due to language and sexual content.
I want to tell you how great my life was.
How I lived without regrets. With constant laughter. Without any tears. I want to tell you how I lived each moment to the fullest. How each breath I took was fresh and full of life. With eagerness. Without any fear.
I want to tell you all of that, but then my story would be masked with lies and not worth telling.
My life didn’t start until I left my past. And I left everything…
My mother, my friends, my name. My new name, the name everyone knows me by is Erin Lewis.
Four years after finding the courage to leave her hometown in Alabama, Erin is finally happy with where her life has led her. Not only is she secure in her environment, but the relationships she has formed center her, making her forget how damaged she once was. Before she can fully settle into her new life, her past crashes into her present, unraveling a set of events that destroy the very foundation she has built her new life on.
ARC received in exchange for honest review.
Wow! What an emotional roller coaster ride! I loved it! This book drew me in from page one. I couldn’t put it down. The characters were so well developed I really felt a connection. Erin’s character in particular really got to me. I laughed with her, I cried with her, my heart broke along with hers. I cheered her on. I wanted to smack her upside the head a couple of times as well.
Erin Lewis left her previous life behind wanting to forget about her horrible past in Alabama. A past full of abuse. A past no child or young woman should ever have gone through. Changing her name and moving to Florida to start a new life never sounded better. Things were finally going well. She was finishing up nursing school, starting her new career, and had finally met someone she felt safe with when it all came crashing down. Her past catches up with her. She learns that her mother had died and she has inherited a little sister she never new she had. She’s just coming to terms with this new responsibility when tragedy strikes it’s ugly head again really challenging her strength and ability to cope.
I loved the way this story was written. Having bits and pieces written in Shay’s point of view really brought it together. It intensified the emotion felt in this book tens times more. I will continue to think about this book for a long time to come. Can’t wait for the next installment. 5 well-deserving stars from me!!!
Five months after their wedding, Trent struggles with the strain of juggling work and family life as Erin furthers her education, getting a Master’s degree in Nursing. All Trent wants is one weekend alone with his wife to reconnect but Erin’s focus is adamantly elsewhere.
Meanwhile, Nate, Erin’s oldest friend and brother, has formed an undeniable bond with Tonya that he is reluctant to pursue because of his own inner demons.
Will love be enough?
Copy of book gifted by author for an honest review.
One thing I enjoyed about Yessi Smith’s writing in Life’s A Cappella was that there was so much emotion that could be felt in the story. It really pulled at my heartstrings throughout the book. Our A Cappella did not disappoint. Although it was a quick read, and I felt it could really have been drawn out into a full size novel, It was really good. It was just too quick for me. I really wanted more. I’m giving it 4 stars for this reason. But the book was still very good. Hope to see more from Yessi Smith in the future.
I’m a Hispanic living in South Florida with my redneck husband
from Texas and our “half breed” son, who is actually the reason I started
writing again after years of celibacy. My son loves stories, but not the kind
you can read in an existing book. No, he’d rather make up a story, complete
with our own illustrations. So, thank you, Son, for igniting a flame I had let
go out.
I also live with two dogs: a neurotic Border Collie we call
Nitro and a midget Rottweiler named Nisa.
I have always found my sanctuary at the beach and in music and
writing. I wish I could write rhymes so I could become a famous rapper, but
rhyming is completely lost on me.
I have a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a Master’s
in Human Resource Management. I have held several jobs, from picking up dog
crap to upper management positions. And now I am hoping to leave the business
world behind so I can live full time in a world that does not exist until I
place my fingers on a keyboard and bring them to fruition.
Yessi Smith
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