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Preach. (Church. Book 2) Kindle Edition
A changed man.
Church Logan wanted to kill someone, and Emma Hartley wanted to die - they were a match made in hell.
But one little cut, a pint or two of blood, and suddenly everything between them is different.
Are they still destined for greatness? Or has the darkness finally eclipsed them and torn them apart?
Looks like it's time for Church to practice what he preaches.
Ignition, meet explosion.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 7, 2018
- File size912 KB
Editorial Reviews
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"The author's prose, her vocabulary and the flow kept me stuck to every page ... This is pure and utter Fantôme style and my last words; be warned...it's dark, it is not for those of you who have high blood pressure 'cause this unique story won't read as you want it to ... Spine-chilling, sweat-building, it's heart-racingly complex and imaginative ... Bravo, and thank you for giving me such a nail-biting-sit-on-the-edge-of-your-seat read!" - Kindle Friends Forever
"It's a psychological love story with threats, dangers ... how Stylo manages to weave poignant threads in this dark quilt of viciousness is beyond me. How she comes up with such twisted stories is I think a million dollar question!" - Book Bistro Blog
"Speechless! What a thrilling ride! Preach was the much anticipated follow up to Church. These books need to be read together. Preach did not disappoint. This book is dark and sexy." - Seraphim Book Reviews
Product details
- ASIN : B07K9BXMBJ
- Publisher : BattleAxe Productions; 1st edition (November 7, 2018)
- Publication date : November 7, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 912 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 274 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1730937489
- Best Sellers Rank: #636,463 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #9,467 in New Adult & College Romance (Kindle Store)
- #23,442 in New Adult & College Romance (Books)
- #28,957 in Romantic Suspense (Kindle Store)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
Crazy woman from an undisclosed location in Alaska (where the need for a creative mind is a necessity!), I have been writing since ... forever? Yeah, that sounds about right. I have been told that I remind people of Lucille Ball - I also see shades of Jennifer Saunders, and Denis Leary. So basically, I laugh a lot, I'm clumsy a lot, and I say the F-word A LOT.
I like dogs more than I like most people, and I don't trust anyone who doesn't drink. No, I do not live in an igloo, and no, the sun does not set for six months out of the year, there's your Alaska lesson for the day. I have mermaid hair - both a curse and a blessing - and most of the time I talk so fast, even I can't understand me.
Yeah. I think that about sums me up.
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Stylo has the ability to write about completely unique characters that you wouldn’t usually like but writes them in way where you cannot help but love them. Preach is one of them stories where the main characters are ones that cannot help but love and just want them to get their happy endings despite their unique traits. I honestly love the storyline of this story and the directions that it went throughout the story. There were a few twists in the story I did not see coming at all.
I loved the way that Emma kept growing throughout the series and the way that she stood up for herself with her mother. I really enjoyed Emma and found her to be a really great Heroine in this series.
Church I really loved reading more about throughout this story and getting more of an insight of him throughout the story. I felt like I learnt a lot more about him in Preach and the reasons for the way he behaves.
Preach picks up where Church left off and delves deeper into the lives of Emma and Church.
Preach isn’t like any other book series out here and remains to be an unique story with such intriguing characters. I really love this author writing style and the creativity of this authors storylines. I am really excited to read more from this author.
Before I start my review, I will say that you MUST read book 1, Church before reading Preach. It's a continuation of Emma and Church's story that is, to say the least, insane. Be ready for some dark romance with edges of insanity thrown in.
"I'm not well, you see. In my mind. In my heart. Just a plaguing darkness, eating away at me, making me rot and fester. I get confused. I don't understand. Or maybe I understand too well."
I have to say that I wasn't sure what to expect for this book, but I knew Stylo was going to bring it. After book one, what was going to happen to Emma? Would Church still be there? What would Emma's horrible mom do next? And Jerry. What the heck was he going to get up to??
To start the story, Emma is a for all intended purposes a prisoner in her own home. Her mom basically owns her and takes her to and from the Sunshine Ranch for meetings with a therapist and group therapy. At the end of book one, I thought Emma was still a strong, albeit confused girl. But I hoped she was still holding strong to who she was. But at the beginning of Preach, we are almost to believe that Emma has succumbed to the darkness and the voices and questions her sanity. It almost broke MY heart. I wanted her darkness to be with Church's darkness. I wanted them together. But she was questioning it all. Not Church. He was always there. He had a plan and he was going to take slow and careful steps to get what he wants and needs.
This story had me feeling things for these two. Yes, they are different, but the emotions and feelings Emma went through were all too real. Her past and what her mother put her through was beyond horrible. And the things Church had gone through that we didn't know about? Very eye-opening. It was when Church said this that things were all put together for me.....
"If you weren't broken anymore, then I wouldn't be able to love you the way I do......It means in order for us to fit together, we already have to be in pieces. My pieces can't exactly fit if you don't have any edges. If you're already whole."
These two broken souls were made for each other and they are a force of nature. They are beauty and pain. They are light and dark. They are the answer to every question. Well, every dark question. They might be monsters, but they are man-made and man picked. Who do you think picked them? Who was the monster lurking in the corner??
"You be the thunder and I'll be the lightning. You be the cloud, and I'll be the rain."
Destruction comes in the form of these two. These two make a whole. But it's what you don't see coming that is the most interesting and actually the most fun of all.
This is different and this is dark, but if you like the more twisted, this book has it. Just remember to pay attention to all the characters and enjoy the dive into darkness and one bloody mess of love.
#TeamJerry
The way Stylo Fantôme delivers the story for these characters is magnificent. A masterful combination of first person and third person works deliciously well at giving the reader insight into the goings on in Church and Emma’s minds while telling the bulk of the story with a bird’s eye view. It’s truly exquisite.
These characters were broken, but in that brokenness and with each other those broken pieces give them strength to fully grasp their true -be it twisted and dark- selves.
With Church’s masterful manipulations of the people around him and Emma’s impulsive nature things tend to work out as planned while keeping it exciting enough to hold Church’s attention. For a sociopath, it’s quite difficult to get him to give two craps about what’s going on with those around him but in this story Stylo delivers surprise after surprise that stuns even him -sometimes leaving him at a loss for words.
What an incredibly twisted little psychological thriller this duet is. I was captivated from the moment I met these characters in book one and was 100% invested in how everything turned out. And I couldn’t have been happier with it all.
As for Emma, even if she was a mental patient, she was a lot more weary of her situation. The voices taking over, her constant battle with sanity. She had a grasp on her reality, more so, than she did before her attempted suicide.
I love Church, his character wasn’t as strong and for that I was a little more reluctant to finish reading, it I did.
Top reviews from other countries
This book carries on from the last one so you have to have read Church for any of this book to make sense, this book was mainly from Emma's point of view rather than Church's and i think that is why i did not enjoy it as much as i don't really like the Character. Having said that it is a good read, we are introduced to new characters as well as catching up with previous ones. I think i just love Church so much i wanted the book from his point of view again and was a little disappointed it wasn't although i do understand why.
I would still recommend the series to any dark lover.
That said, Stylo Fantome has a way with words. Poetic love for the wicked.