Swear on This Life by Renee CarlinoMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Reviewed by: Michelle
ARC provided by author/publisher in exchange for an honest review
Absolutely brilliant!!!! Renee Carlino continues to amaze me with each new release and in her latest, Swear On This Life, Carlino has truly captured reader’s heart with her stunning prose. This book has to be hands down my favorite Renee Carlino book and my top summer reads of 2016. If there was a book that truly deserved to be in the spotlight, this book right here has to be it. Her words, characters, and stories are the epitome of why readers like myself continue to fall in love with her stories. Carlino doesn’t give you a story, she delivers and paints a literary masterpiece that you will hold dear to your heart.
“There once was a boy and a girl... ”Swear On This Life is a story within a story. When Emiline reads J. Colby’s bestselling debut book, she is entranced with the story of Emerson and Jackson. These fictional characters are no longer fictional in her eyes since they were based on her and friendship with Jase. Every facet of her past is laid bare. Every pain, hurt, and happiness are captured in the words of J.Colby. And so what happens when Emiline confronts the author whom she knows is Jase? Can Emiline and Jase rewrite their own literary ending?
Renee Carlino is truly a gifted writer. Every word, detail, and raw emotions held you hostage. Carlino didn’t just write an ordinary love story but she wrote a story that had meaning, depth, beauty, pain, friendship, and love. She brought her characters to life and in such allowed her readers to feel every gamut of emotions from loss, anger, heartache, disappointment, and most importantly love. Carlino’s raw prose was consuming. Her words were bleeding through the pages as we were entranced with the story of Emeline and Jase.
This book was everything. Yes, it was everything that you would want and need in a second chance romance. Swear On This Life was poetic, beautiful, stunning, poignant, and raw. It was a book layered with friendship, forgiveness and a magnitude of emotions. This book was a journey where the past and present collide. And most importantly, this is a story that reminds us that the self growth, understanding and love transcends. All there is left to say is go read this book. I beg you to get lost in this gripping and heart-tugging read and understand why I love and adore Renee Carlino. Yes, her stories carries the sentiments of love but most importantly her stories are the apotheosis and embodiment of a literary masterpiece that is full of heart.
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