When I was diagnosed with breast cancer my life changed in an instant. My once clear path was now going 100 miles an hour into the pitch black unknown. I couldn’t stop nor change it. I was in the driver seat, yet I couldn’t steer back on course. My life was never going to be the same. I lost friends and refused to make new ones. I refused to let anyone in.
I lived an empty void of existence.
The day the doctor muttered the word remission my path changed yet again. I knew, however, at any moment it could change back. I needed to find myself and purpose in life.
One day it all changed. I found myself in a place most would look down on. A place where I wasn’t pitied or treated like a piece of glass. It’s was where I met him. Where I would find myself. This is my story and how I became Faith.
My name is Elizabeth Hayes and I am from the Midwest. I have a few things I just happen to obsess over those include Hot pink and Zebra print, Unicorns, and cupcakes, and Books, I love to read and get lost in a book. I have thought about writing for a long time now and finally started to put words down. Ashlee and I are both new at this and our first book Finding Salvation is going to be thrown out there for you all to read. I must say I am having a hard time with this. I am the type of person that likes to know the outcome before I do anything. I want to know that this is going loved by most of you. The thing is I know that this book is going to be hopefully liked by some, hopefully loved by some, hated by some and just ok to some and I think I am finally ok with that. I am stepping out of my comfort zone. I hear that is a good thing. But with everything time will tell. So there you go! If you want to know more just ask.
TBird’s Review:
Faith (Hades Angels #1)
4 stars
Faith is a shorter book with a unique take on a young woman who is a
survivor of breast cancer. At an early age she was diagnosed with the
cancer and had to have a double mastectomy along with chemo and radiation
treatments. Her life had become hospitals, treatments, needles,
disappointments, pain and the reality that her dreams of husband and
children were gone. There was no way she would ever allow a man to love
her only to live with the fear that her cancer would return at any time.
The treatments and poisons to save her life, also took away her chances at
having children. When she finally heard the words remission, instead of
celebrating she found herself wondering what she was supposed to do now?
With deformed breasts, lost dreams and no desire to be intimate with a man,
she decides that she will focus on college and apply to become a pole
dancer. The rules at Hades plays in her favor, pasties to cover the
nipples she no longer has, no sex at any time. Getting up there and
dancing for men, seeing their appreciation could be just what she needed to
regain her self-confidence, but then she sees Bryce.
There was an instant connection to him from the moment she laid eyes on
him. After a chance meeting over coffee they began to build a friendship
and eventually date, then the truth of her past comes out and she tries to
run. She is going to have to trust that he sees more to her than the
outside, he can see her soul and strength she possesses.
This is a wonderful story that shows the struggles of mental recovery once
cancer has changed your body and image. This could go along with many
other issues women face but I found it to be even more special that the
author used breast cancer as the source. I love how the author used Bryce
and Faith who met at a club where women’s bodies are the main attraction,
where she hoped to gain some self-esteem back and took us on their journey
to the place where she attempts to accept that Bryce sees more than her
body; he sees her heart and soul.
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