This is a Tag Team Event hosted by myself and Sherry.
It’s always a pleasure to share more books by Ashley Fontainne. I’ve read many of her books and plan to read everything she writes.
For today, I’m sharing my review of Ruined Wings. I’m very excited for Ashley as this has been optioned for a movie.
After reading my review, head on over to Sherry’s blog at fundinmental and check out her review.
Enter her giveaway for another chance to win!
And Ruined Wings is free. Click on the links below the synopsis to grab the eBook.
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Ruined Wings
by Ashley Fontainne
Genre: Fiction
My Review
This story isn’t an easy read. The author writes a bare bones, honest and hard to take look into the painful lure and eventual fall to the call of drugs.
Callie is a rising track star. Her future is bright and she has exciting plans. But fate intervenes. And when she loses her brother and father to a car accident her world comes crashing down.
Not strong enough to handle her grief, Callie chooses drugs to numb her pain. And thus begins a long painful journey as the girl with with everything going for her slides to the rocky bottom.
Drug addiction is ugly. Loved ones become someone else. And as the drugs tighten their grip, they’re led to do despicable things to get more drugs. The love of their family and friends turns to anger and disgust.
Ruined Wings should be required reading in schools, for students and their parents. I used to look at those addicted to drugs as lost causes. Not having known them before the drugs stole their lives, I didn’t realize how quickly anyone could become hooked.
Ashley Fontainne takes you through it step by painful step. She doesn’t try to paint a pretty happy ending. I wanted to hug Callie. Tell her everything would be okay. But only Callie could save herself.
Thanks for shaking me up and opening my eyes, Ashley.
5 Stars
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Synopsis
“Ruined Wings is raw, real and a terrifying journey into addiction. A must read for every parent.” – Elaine Raco Chase, bestselling author.
Seventeen-year-old Callie Novak is on the cusp of changing her life as she warms up for the final heat in the Women’s 1600 meter track and field competition. While she sets a new state record, her family’s worse nightmare is just beginning.
When tragedy strikes the Novak family every reader will feel the pain of grief, the perils of drug abuse, the despair that leads to a shocking downward spiral and the strength that’s needed to overcome addiction.
Purchase Links
Amazon / B&N / iTunes / Kobo / Audible
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Author Ashley Fontainne
Award-winning and International bestselling author Ashley Fontainne is an avid reader of mostly the classics. Ashley became a fan of the written word in her youth, starting with the Nancy Drew mystery series. Stories that immerse the reader deep into the human psyche and the monsters that lurk within us are her favorite reads.
Her muse for penning the Eviscerating the Snake series was The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Ashley’s love for this book is what sparked her desire to write her debut novel, Accountable to None, the first book in the trilogy. With a modern setting to the tale, Ashley delves into just what lengths a person is willing to go when they seek personal justice for heinous acts perpetrated upon them. The second novel in the series, Zero Balance. focuses on the cost and reciprocal cycle that obtaining revenge has on the seeker. For once the cycle starts, where does it end? How far will the tendrils of revenge expand? Adjusting Journal Entries answered that question: far and wide.
Her short thriller entitled Number Seventy-Five, touches upon the sometimes dangerous world of online dating. Number Seventy-Five took home the BRONZE medal in fiction/suspense at the 2013 Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards contest and is currently in production for a feature film.
Her paranormal thriller entitled The Lie, won the GOLD medal in the 2013 Illumination Book Awards for fiction/suspense and is also in production for a feature film entitled Foreseen.
Ashley’s decided to delve into the paranormal with a Southern Gothic horror/suspense novel, Growl, which released in January of 2015. The suspenseful mystery Empty Shell, released in September of 2014. Ashley will be teaming up with Lillian Hansen (Ashley calls her mom!) to pen a three-part murder mystery/suspense series entitled The Magnolia Series. The first book, Blood Ties, released the Summer of 2015.
Whispered Pain released in October of 2015 and Night Court released December 13, 2015.
Ashley also hosts The WriteStuff, a popular BlogTalk Radio show, each Friday night at 10 p.m. CST.
Foreseen Movie Website – See the trailer
Number Seventy-Five Movie Website
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Ashley is giving away one Audible Copy of Ruined Wings
Entry is easy. Just leave your email address so I can contact you if you win, let me know which format you are entering for, and answer this question:
Have you ever done something you knew you shouldn’t, but couldn’t stop yourself?
Now hop on over the Sherry’s post on fundinmental for her review and another chance to win!
Giveaway ends June 27th.
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Books by Ashley Fontainne
And coming September 4th, 2017.
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And click on the links below to see my reviews.
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Ashley sure can churn up the emotions. She never ceases to amaze me with her ability to grab my attention and keep it throughout, no matter what the genre. Great job, Ashley and great review, Laura.
sherry @ fundinmental
I know just what you mean! This one hit so many nerves. Terrific writing and story!
Yep, getting married the first time. Or, turning down a baseball scholarship to join the Marine Corps after high school graduation. Ah, so young, so dumb! 🙂
–Michael emhelms63@yahoo.com
(Is there more than one format being offered? If so, I’d rather read than listen.)
The ebook is free on all outlets in hopes of reaching those who need to read!
But you might not have become a writer!!!!! And you do write some fabulous stories:)
Drug addiction is a powerful topic that create great books! This sounds like an emotional powerful read!
It’s not easy to swallow at some points but that’s why it’s so good:)
Yes, and looking back, maybe I still shouldn’t have, but we learn from our mistakes.
Yeah. Right after you do something you shouldn’t you wish you could take it back. Years later you realize it helped make you who you are.
Yep, I totally have done something I knew I shouldn’t. Like every time I go to a bookstore, I spend way more money than I told my husband I’d spend, and then end up with $5 left for gas for the week. 😉