Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: Young Adult Romance/Drama Agony of Being Me by Victoria Valentine.
Agony of Being Me is an intense teen & young adult romantic drama intended for coming of age & romance novel lovers.
The Book has been self-published via Water Forest Press Books and is available as eBook - 364 pages - released in June 2016.
About the Book
For some girls, life is a romance novel; for others, a horror story. Zoe Channing has it all: beauty, brains, talent. She owns the heart of high school hottie, Jesse Sinclair. She’s the star of the school play, with love at her fingertips, but just before her sixteenth birthday, tragedy strikes, hurling her on a turbulent course back from the hell that replaced her heaven.
Can a soul withstand so much torment? A mind such terror? A body such physical agony?
Jesse's life is all planned out. Graduate high school and head to art school in the city. His mother is gone, and his dad has just suffered a near fatal heart attack, leaving Jesse to fend for himself. Older brother, Jamie, could be Jesse's twin, but only in appearance. Jesse James as they're referred to couldn't anymore different on the inside.
Where Jesse is responsible, Jamie is a fly by night woman abusing man whore. Jesse's senior year of high school brings about a dramatic and delightful change in the form of a small blonde girl with big blue eyes. Jesse's never felt this way before, but fate sends him into a tailspin, and he'll spend the next few years trying not to follow in his brother's footsteps.
Sometimes life doesn't leave much choices. And the choices you make can be devastating.
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Reviews (Excerpts)
- "Realistic portrayal of human nature when faced with tragedy. I identified with the strong, well-developed characters and their life-altering issues and how they each handled the hurdles life threw at them from different perspectives. This is a well written book, with emotional depth, while being an easy read. Highly recommend." - M.M. West, MAT, New York
- "I have read several books by this author and I have loved each and every one of them. This one is no different. I loved how you got Zow and Jesse's version of what happened with each chapter. I can relate to both characters and that is what made me love the story in so many ways." - Amazon
- "[...] Zoe and Jesse are your typical high school students until Zoe's life was changed by trauma, not once, but twice. Jesse wants to be her hero, but she isn't ready to be carried off on the white horse just yet. This book takes you through Zoe dealing with the trauma(s) and how life must go on." - Heather D. Chrisco
- "I sailed through the book in two days because I just couldn't stop reading. Every chapter is involving and a surprise. I can't wait for the conclusion in book two. I'm dying to find out if these two kids get together and if it's possible for Zoe to heal and Jesse to sort out his life. [...]" - Jude Uhl
About the Author
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| Author Victoria Valentine |
Agony of Being Me is her sixth novel. Her favorite genres to read and write are horror, thrillers, and contemporary romance. Besides being inspired by family, she owes a shout out to Robert C. Wilson, author of Crooked Tree, and Robert McCammon, author of They Thirst and other fabulous books. The moment Victoria read their novels, she knew writing fantastic horror & thrillers would be in her future.
The explosive and twisting conclusion of Agony of Being Me, a 110K word novel, Finding You, is scheduled to release on June 30th on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.
Victoria founded Water Forest Press indie book publishing in 2004, but her background in publishing stretches back to 2001 when she founded, edited, designed and published Skyline Literary Magazines, Literary House Review and Hudson View Poetry digest. These books and magazines were requisitioned by the New York Public Library and colleges such as Brown University Library, Wisconsin Madison Library, John A. Logan, and others, including international locations.
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