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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Renee’s Five Star Review:
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.
Last Words is probably going to be a very different book than anything you have read in a good long while. Last Words if told though the journals of Emma’s grandmother who lived thought the Holocaust and has hidden this journal from her entire family until she is convinced she is dying and can’t be saved. In the hospital, very confused and surrounded by her family she keeps asking for Charlie but no one knows who Charlie is. Emma is tasked with finding her grandmother and reading her journal to her. Though the reading of this journal to Amelia Emma learns things she never ever knew about her grandmother. Her grandmother never told her family any of the things that she had gone through nor that she had been in love with a Nazi soldier named Charlie. Hence Emma along with her grandmother and her doctor Jackson Beck discover a world that is so earth shattering that it changes their lives and loves forever.
Last Words is not just a book. It is a journey that will, and I promise it will, change your heart in ways you will never expect. I have read every single book that Shari Ryan has ever written and loved them. This however is her best book to date. Last Words is so different from anything else she has ever written and I have to say it is probably my favorite read of 2017. There is no way you will read Last Words and come out on the other side the same way that you went in. I could read this book a million times and I’m sure discover something new every time I open it. You will probably want a kleenex nearby at times and I had to lay it down and take a break several times it got so intense. Don’t you dare not go back to it though or you will be missing out on something amazing. Something you have never experienced before and I will warn you the After Word will leave you with big fat tears sliding down your face.
Giveaway
Signed Paperback of Last Words & $10 Amazon Gift Card
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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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