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Sherry And Narcotics (2011)

by Nina-Marie Gardner(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0982792824 (ISBN13: 9780982792827)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Future Fiction London

review 1: This novel explores the perils of addiction, and is very addicting itself. Poor Mary. She is such a self-induced hot mess. I really liked her and had a lot of hope for her. She battles so many things in this book--wanting love, wanting to bury pain from personal loss, wanting success, stability,and maybe even normality. The problem is, she wants the bottle more! When she doesn't have resolution to the fulfillment in these areas, she seeks to numb herself with booze. Mary meets a co-dependent soul in Jake, her new British boyfriend. Jake needed recovery too--and permission to release himself from his co-dependency. I feel like I went through recovery & slipped again, just by reading Nina's book. Doesn't help that I work in the human services field, and reading about addicti... moreon's power over its victims. I wanted to set up my "listening couch" to bring them in & try to help them work through stuff. Oy! A compelling read. 4 stars
review 2: WOW. What an extraordinary and hauntingly painful story. I commended the author for writing such a realistic portrayal of finding love online between two deeply troubled souls. I also love that it was set in the foreign setting of Manchester. It almost made it seem more bizarre and hopeless to me. I felt just as lost as Mary was at times. I fear I related to Mary too much at times which added to making it feel uncomfortably real. This is probably one of the more heart wrenching stories I've read this year. Excellent debut novel! less

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