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Black Iris by Leah Raeder (2015, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAtria Books

ISBN-101476786429

ISBN-139781476786421

eBay Product ID (ePID)201603165

Product Key Features

Book TitleBlack Iris

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicThrillers / Suspense, Romance / New Adult, Romance / Suspense

Publication Year2015

GenreFiction

AuthorLeah räder

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight14.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2014-041873

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsRisky, brave, bold. Heart-breaking, captivating, and sensual. There aren't enough words to describe this suspenseful powerhouse of a novel. Raeder's gorgeous prose and raw characters will keep you flipping to the very end. Black Iris is one of the best books I've read this year., Not for the faint of heart...gritty, intense, and lyrical...Raeder's compelling and unnerving dysfunctional love story is about revenge and survival., Leah Raeder's writing is skillful and stunning. Unteachable is one of the most beautifully powerful stories of forbidden love that I have ever read., Gripping, emotional, relatable, and yes, romantic (in all the best ways) read. Whatever Raeder writes, I will always want to read and recommend., Raeder masterfully weaves a dark, twisted, dangerously sexy quest for revenge with a raw, honest search for kinship and self-acceptance. Black Iris demands your attention, your heart, and an immediate reread., Unteachable infuses the complicated dynamics of forbidden sexual tension and untamed passion, all while managing to break your heart. Easily one of my favorite reads., Provocative, seductive, and skillfully written, Black Iris is a story that stands out from the crowd., Raeder keeps the action moving as readers try to figure out the dual mysteries--what happened on the road that night, and who is Blue?, Raeder's best book yet. It has the grit, language, and heat you'd expect, but there's more. Raeder has clearly dug down and bled and studied the mirror to reveal the ugliest and most beautiful parts of herself, and human nature. CAM GIRL is a rich and unflinching narrative., Like an afternoon special on bullying gone impossibly dark, Raeder's dizzyingly intense, drug-addicted queer teenage revenge fantasy takes its reader on a sexy, bloody journey of pure emotion that's by turns expressed, denied, and turned back in on itself. Delaney Keating, viciously mistreated in high school for her attraction to girls and damaged by her unstable mother's suicide, falls into a love triangle with two of the dramatic inhabitants of underground dance club Umbra: DJ and patient medical student Armin, and impulsive, fierce, deliciously sensual Blythe. She pulls them into her scheme of violence against her abusers in a heady mélange of lust and bloodlust, while the triad pulls against itself with internal jealousies. A twisting timeline dancing over a year's events makes every moment seem both immediate and angrily steeped in memory. Major themes include depression, mania, and the ways that the use and abuse of drugs affect access to the reality of self and the world's essential nature; but the soul-searching always comes in the context of action, everyone around hit by the shrapnel of exploding feelings. This is an exhilarating ride for our inner underdog, craving a taste of what it would feel like to just get back at everyone if we were reckless enough not to care about the consequences., Intense and visceral, Black Iris is as sharp as a knife and beats with a heart that is double-edged and dangerous., Provocative, seductive, and skillfully written, Black Iris is a story that stands out from the crowd., Praise for Cam Girl : "Raeder's beautifully broken characters are so full of life that they leap off the page and demand that the reader pay attention to them...it's a must read for anyone wanting a sexy deep dive into a tangled psyche and a difficult life.", Equally wicked as it is beautiful. This story is one of the best reads I've read to date. My book hangover afterward was real . It honestly opened my eyes to all things LGBTQIA+ and the importance of treating mental illness. Overall a very note-worthy read that everyone should digest at least once., Unteachable infuses the complicated dynamics of forbidden sexual tension and untamed passion, all while managing to break your heart. Easily one of my favorite reads., With lush, haunting prose, deft storytelling and scorching sensuality, Leah Raeder weaves a love story that obliterates convention. The best book I've read this year.

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisThe next dark and sexy romantic suspense novel from the USA TODAY bestselling author of Unteachable , praised for its "lush, haunting prose, deft storytelling, and scorching sensuality" (M. Pierce, bestselling author of the Night Owl trilogy), and called "one of the best forbidden romances" (Lauren Blakely, New York Times bestselling author). Love is not a thing that we create. It's an undoing. It only took one moment of weakness for Laney Keating's world to fall apart. One stupid gesture for a hopeless crush. Then the rumors began. Slut, they called her. Queer. Psycho. Mentally ill, messed up, so messed up even her own mother decided she wasn't worth sticking around for. If Laney could erase that whole year, she would. College is her chance to start with a clean slate. She's not looking for new friends, but they find her: charming, handsome Armin, the only guy patient enough to work through her thorny defenses--and fiery, filterless Blythe, the bad girl and partner in crime who has thorns of her own. But Laney knows nothing good ever lasts. When a ghost from her past resurfaces--the bully who broke her down completely--she decides it's time to live up to her own legend. And Armin and Blythe are going to help. Which was the plan all along. Because the rumors are true. Every single one. And Laney is going to show them just how true. She's going to show them all., The next dark and sexy romantic suspense novel from the USA TODAY bestselling author of Unteachable., The next dark and sexy romantic suspense novel from the USA TODAY bestselling author of Unteachable , which was praised for its "lush, haunting prose, deft storytelling, and scorching sensuality" (M. Pierce, bestselling author of the Night Owl trilogy), and called "one of the best forbidden romances" (Lauren Blakely, New York Times bestselling author). "Love is not a thing that we create. It's an undoing." It only took one moment of weakness for Laney Keating's world to fall apart. One stupid gesture for a hopeless crush. Then the rumors began. Slut, they called her. Queer. Psycho. Mentally ill, messed up, so messed up even her own mother decided she wasn't worth sticking around for. If Laney could erase that whole year, she would. College is her chance to start with a clean slate. She's not looking for new friends, but they find her: charming, handsome Armin, the only guy patient enough to work through her thorny defenses--and fiery, filterless Blythe, the bad girl and partner in crime who has thorns of her own. But Laney knows nothing good ever lasts. When a ghost from her past resurfaces--the bully who broke her down completely--she decides it's time to live up to her own legend. And Armin and Blythe are going to help. Which was the plan all along. Because the rumors are true. Every single one. And Laney is going to show them just how true. She's going to show them all.

LC Classification NumberPS3618.A35955B58