We here at Southern Read are so excited and honored to be apart of the cover reveal for Leah Raeder's new novel Black Iris. If you don't know who Leah Raeder is she is the author of Unteachable. Which is the novel we choose as our biggest surprise read of 2014. We both read and reviewed that novel for our blog and have reviews posted (Links at the bottom of the page). We absolutely adore her! So again we are so thankful too be a part of this.
Seriously people look at that cover!!! IT'S STUNNING and it's only making the wait for it harder!
Leah Raeder is a writer and
unabashed nerd. Aside from reading her brains out, she enjoys graphic
design, video games, fine whiskey, and the art of self-deprecation. She
lives with her very own manic pixie dream boy
in Chicago. You can learn more about her and see more of her work by visiting her at LeahRaeder.com.
Wondering what Black Iris is about?? Well we've posted the description below... So after reading it be sure to go and add it to your TBR on goodreads.
"It only took one moment of weakness for Laney Keating’s world to
fall apart. One stupid gesture for a hopeless crush. Then the rumors
began. Slut, they called her. Queer. Psycho. Mentally ill, messed up, so
messed up even her own mother
decided she wasn't worth sticking around for.
If Laney could erase that whole year, she would. College is her chance to start with a clean slate.
She's not looking for new friends, but they find her: charming, handsome Armin, the only guy patient enough to work through her thorny defenses—and fiery, filterless Blythe, the bad girl and partner in crime who has thorns of her own.
But Laney knows nothing good ever lasts. When a ghost from her past resurfaces—the bully who broke her down completely—she decides it's time to live up to her own legend. And Armin and Blythe are going to help.
Which was the plan all along.
Because the rumors are true. Every single one. And Laney is going to show them just how true.
She's going to show them all."
She's not looking for new friends, but they find her: charming, handsome Armin, the only guy patient enough to work through her thorny defenses—and fiery, filterless Blythe, the bad girl and partner in crime who has thorns of her own.
But Laney knows nothing good ever lasts. When a ghost from her past resurfaces—the bully who broke her down completely—she decides it's time to live up to her own legend. And Armin and Blythe are going to help.
Which was the plan all along.
Because the rumors are true. Every single one. And Laney is going to show them just how true.
She's going to show them all."
Black Iris will be available in both Ecopy (5.99) and Print at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Booksamillion, and Indiebound (15.00). It's also available on all those sites for per-order.
WE CAN NOT WAIT TO GET OUR HANDS ON THIS BOOK!!!
BUT WAIT! That's not it... We were also provided with an excerpt from chapter one to give yall!
BLACK IRIS by Leah Raeder
April is the cruelest month,
T.S. Eliot said, and that’s because it kills. It’s the month with the
highest suicide rate. You’d think December, or even
January—the holidays and all that forced cheer and agonized smiling
pushing fragile people to the edge—but actually it’s spring, when the
world wakes from frostbound sleep and something cruel and final stirs
inside those of us who are broken. Like Eliot said:
mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
In the deepest throes of depression, when sunlight is anguish and the
sky throbs like one big raw migraine and you just want to sleep until
you or everything else dies, you’re less likely
to commit suicide than someone coming out of a depressive
episode. Drug companies know this. That’s why antidepressants have to be
marked with the warning MAY CAUSE SUICIDAL THOUGHTS.
Because what brings you back to life also gives you the means to destroy yourself.
Because what brings you back to life also gives you the means to destroy yourself.
LEAH RAEDER YOU'RE GIVING US GOOSEBUMPS!!!
You can also follow Leah on her many social media pages listed below:
and check out both of our reviews for Unteachable here:
Thanks again Leah Raeder and the people at Simon and Schuster the people at ATRIA BOOKS
(
a division of Simon and Schuster, Inc.)
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