This is also an ownvoices for the two black main characters that the points of view shift between. I truly believed that these two characters were real and were soulmates and it was a damn treat to be inside their heads. The chemistry is instant and so damn good. August was just looking to blow off some steam, but he wasn’t planning on meeting someone who he would never forget. It is the night before August’s big college final game, and Iris is a basketball fanatic that came to the bar to catch her beloved Lakers play.

Long Shot is a basketball, sort of second chance romance that starts with one night at a bar that changes two people’s lives forever. And if you are in the right mindset, I very much recommend this read. But again, this is a book about reclaiming your body and your mind from your abuser. The author put in a lot of research and interviewed a lot of survivors, social workers, and women’s shelters and it shows on the pages. We live in a world where people never want to believe a woman’s word, on top of the hundreds of other factors that come into play when someone is trying to leave their abuser. This book also puts on display how difficult it can be to leave an abusive relationship. Does she realize that slowly, surely, she’s being cut off from her friends? Isolated from her family? Being molded into something she’s not? Into what he wants her to be?” Maybe she thinks his jealousy means he loves her more or that it’s cute.

“I spoke because maybe there’s some girl like me. Also, if you need help, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1−800−799−7233. This read is not easy or light, but it very importantly talks about taking back your own body after someone has been forcefully taking it for so long.

MAJOR trigger and content warnings for a lot of graphic rape, stalking, being trapped, and a lot of very graphic physical, emotional, and mental abuse. Goodreads | Amazon US| Barnes & Noble | Book Depositoryįirst and foremost, I really want to emphasize that this is a book about abuse and what it is like to be in a very dangerous and abusive relationship.

Hoops series by kennedy ryan