Title: Dear Ava
Author: Ilsa Madden-Mills
Publication Date: February/02/2020
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The rich and popular Sharks rule at prestigious, ivy-covered Camden Prep. Once upon a time, I wanted to be part of their world—until one of them destroyed me.
The last thing I expected was an anonymous love letter from one of them.
Please. I hate every one of those rich jerks for what they did to me. The question is, which Shark is my secret admirer: Knox, the scarred quarterback and their leader, Dane, his twin brother, or Chance, the ex who dumped me...
Dear Ava,
Your eyes are the color of the Caribbean Sea.</del>
That’s stupid.
What I really mean is, you look at me and I feel something REAL.
It’s been ten months since you were here, but I can’t forget you.
I’ve missed seeing you walk down the hall.
I’ve missed you cheering at my football games.
I’ve missed the smell of your hair.
The truth is, I wanted you back then—but you had him.
And then everything fell apart that night.
Don’t hate me because I’m a Shark.
I just want to make you mine.
Still.
An excerpt of Dear Ava appeared in the anthology Team Player 2 in 2019. (No longer available.) This full-length version is 100,000 words.
I’m so happy I was one of the lucky ones to received an ARC of this wonderful, sweet, heartbroken story.
Dear Ava started with a really terrible and bad episode for Ava, there’s not specific description but you do get the images in your mind while reading. After Ava was pickup walking alone on the side of the road by the woods, there’s a ten month’s lapse, she returns to the HighSchool, that same one where she knows her attacker is, but she’s a girl who’s been through a lot and this time she’s fighting not just for her but her little brother too.
I love and admire Ava, after everything that happens to her she rise like a Phoenix, not everyone got the strength to go against the richest and powerful people, and when she does it instead of get support from the classmates what she receives is hostility.
“So you aren’t going to let these assholes get to you, Ava?” I say to the scared girl in the mirror.“No. Not yet. I’m not quitting. Only cowards quit.”
But she got a few really good friends who stand by her, and then there’s Knox.
Knox has scars and it is not the ones that marks his face, his scars are so deep and he hides them with a coldness that allows him to raise a wall toward the other ones. The only person who knows him well is he’s twin brother, and then Tulip when they both gains each other’s thrust.
“I hate it when you call me Ava instead of Tulip, you know. You’re putting distance between us. Even now, when I know you aren’t the big bad Shark you want me to think you are.”
Is sweet and adorable to read the way this two get to know who they really are, their souls, the way they start worried and taking care was something the touch me deeply. Not all monsters have scars, sometimes the real ones hide in perfect faces.
“What makes me so special?” He cocks an eyebrow. “Does that even need a response? Don’t you see how incredible you are? How fucking hot and sweet and strong?
“Truth or dare, Cold and Evil. You pick, and you better choose the right one, damn you.” “Dare.”“Kiss me.”
I’m so honored to read Ava’s journey, to read a young girl with all this dream who loves and cares but is willing to let go in order to grow and keep moving, looking forward to a better future and maybe, just maybe if the time and life do any justice end up with the love of her life, the one who needs the space and time time to heal, even when he doesn’t see it, she proves that she is strong enough to make that decision when the time is on.
“I know underneath that tough-girl exterior, you’d do anything for the people you love. Do you know how rare that is? People may say they care and love, but from what I’ve seen, they only look out for themselves.”
“Our lines got a little blurry along the way, through broken hearts and time lost, but in the end, we made a full, complete, beautiful circle.”
I dare you to read this book, you won’t regret it, this book is going to touch you on ways that we should all.
Ilsa has done such a beautiful job touching on such a delicate and hard subjects with a respect that is impossible not to love her.
Thank you to the Author and Social Butterfly PR for providing an ARC on exchange of honest review.
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About Ilsa Madden-Mills
Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills is best known for her angsty new adult romances and romantic comedies.
Eight of her eleven novels have placed in the Amazon Top 10 Best-seller List: Dirty English #1; Fake Fiancée and I Dare You #2; I Bet You, Filthy English, and Very Bad Things #6; Boyfriend Bargain #8; The Last Guy, her collaboration with Tia Louise, #4.
A former high school English teacher, she adores all things Pride and Prejudice, and of course, Mr. Darcy is her ultimate hero.
She's addicted to frothy coffee beverages, cheesy magnets, and any book featuring unicorns and sword-wielding females. Feel free to stalk her online.
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