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*favorite* BOOK REVIEW: Collared by Nicole Williams



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Title: Collared
Series: ?
Author: Nicole Williams
Genre: Adult Contemporary Dark Hopeful Romance
Rating: *favorite* 5-Stars
Cliffhanger:HFN
HEA: HFN
Blog: HERE

When a seventeen-year-old girl vanishes,
A community is shaken.
Parents turn desperate.
Friends hold vigils.
And the boy who loves her searches.

When a year goes by,
The community is recovering.
Parents feel hopeless.
Friends feel helpless.
And the boy who loves her continues his search.

When ten years go by,
The community has forgotten.
Parents cling to the past.
Friends move toward the future.
And the boy who loves her . . .
Brings her home.

Jade Childs spent ten years in captivity, but now that she’s back, the real battle for survival begins. The media shadows her. Flashbacks haunt her. Her old life evades her. Her so-called new life rejects her. She spent too many years in the dark to recognize the light. She spent too long repressing her feelings to remember how to express them. She spent a decade abandoning hope and cannot dare letting it back into her life. Jade’s not just defined by what happened to her—she’s collared to it.

When the twenty-seven-year-old woman is found,
A community wants to know the story,
Parents want to forget the story,
Friends want to be a part of the story,
And the man who still loves her faces the greatest challenge yet: letting her go.

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I refuse to share anything, tell anything, hint at anything about Collared's plot. Why? Because—trust me, believe me—that this is a book you want to pick up and read blind, in the dark of knowledge. This book is powerful enough to capture you, to collar you, to its pages without shedding light on its contents.

So read the synopsis, that's all you need:
When a seventeen-year-old girl vanishes,
A community is shaken.
Parents turn desperate.
Friends hold vigils.
And the boy who loves her searches.

When a year goes by,
The community is recovering.
Parents feel hopeless.
Friends feel helpless.
And the boy who loves her continues his search.

When ten years go by,
The community has forgotten.
Parents cling to the past.
Friends move toward the future.
And the boy who loves her . . .
Brings her home.

Jade Childs spent ten years in captivity, but now that she’s back, the real battle for survival begins. The media shadows her. Flashbacks haunt her. Her old life evades her. Her so-called new life rejects her. She spent too many years in the dark to recognize the light. She spent too long repressing her feelings to remember how to express them. She spent a decade abandoning hope and cannot dare letting it back into her life. Jade’s not just defined by what happened to her—she’s collared to it.

When the twenty-seven-year-old woman is found,
A community wants to know the story,
Parents want to forget the story,
Friends want to be a part of the story,
And the man who still loves her faces the greatest challenge yet: letting her go.
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Jade was the lost girl, the victim of a woman. But she was so strong, so brave in the face of evil. Getting inside her head was like no other. It confused me, it made me think, it made me ache, it made me scared. Nicole Williams high-lightened the troubles of finding yourself after tragedy in Jade, and I felt that. Every. Single. Day. of Jade's journey told throughout this book—past, present—I felt it, with all that I am.

Torrin was the searching boy, the hero of a man. And he...oh my God...Torrin broke me with his gorgeous devastation, his undying love and never-ending devotion. *clutches chest* So much hope, he had inside him, but also so, so much loss. I'm almost in tears now, just thinking about how much Torrin meant to me—how very much I adored every untouchable, unresistable bit of him. *sobs uncontrollably*

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This book

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There are no words, no utterances at all, really, to describe it's terrible, heart-wrenching beauty. I'm in awe of Nicole Williams, for the pages of mind and heart and soul and body she ripped from the darkest parts of humanity, and laid bare for us to read—the good, the bad, the dark, the light, the everything.

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Overall, Collared is devastating perfection. Throughout the whole book (no lie, no exaggeration) I cried. Slow, sad tears. The kind of tears that come from the hurt of a wound that's healing, scabbing over to scar the insides of your soul.

This book truly was one of those rarities, the ones that shatters you with words, that smashes you with each and every page—only to piece you together, slow and heart-wrenchingly steady.
Forever is fragile. Forever is fleeting. Forever is finite. Forever is gone.

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*PS: I was given an copy of this book. But I do solemnly swear that I am up to...good. ;) This is a fair and honest review of this book, pinky promise.*