Book Info –
Patch Up by
Stephanie Witter
Genre: Contemporary New Adult novel with a slow building
romance.
Date of Publication: 16 Sep, 2013
ISBN: 9780989707336
Number of pages: 260 pages
Length: over 85 000 words.
Due to some shocking scenes,
this novel is not intended for readers under 18.
Blurb:
Skye followed her long time
boyfriend to Seattle for their first year of college, but he dumped her after
only a week. The relationship brought only pain and destruction in Skye's life,
and yet, she can't bring herself to open up and live her life.
"What if I am already broken
into pieces?"
She hates to be touched, hiding
under her oversized shirts and behind her wild frizzy hair. Even her bubbly
roommate can't reach her. And yet ...
"I'm the guy who knows how
you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they're cut and
bleeding."
The tall, handsome, and tattooed
TA in her psychology class changes everything when he literally collides with
her and confronts her. For the first time in a long time, she wants to try and
open up to this guy whose dark, intense eyes can't hide his own pain despite
his dazzling smile getting to her.
However, just when she's starting
to live again, her ex-boyfriend comes back, breaking her time and time again,
making it all the more complicated.
She wants to fight for herself
and for this building thing with the TA, even when he pushes her away, but can
two broken people patch each other up?
"I never thought colliding
with someone could change lives, but it is possible."
Excerpt:
(The first meeting)
Without paying attention to my
surroundings, I turn to my left to walk toward the row closer to the door where
a seat is available. I take a step and collide with a hard body, almost
toppling me over on the ground for the second time in less than an hour. A
strong hand grips me firmly by the forearm. My body stiffens and my breath
catches in my throat. It’s as if I can’t move besides yanking my arm free
without looking up to see who I collided with.
“Are you all right?” he asks me
in a deep and calm voice.
My eyes wander from my red
Converse to his dark boots. I have to calm down. I’m being ridiculous. Calm
down. I take a deep breath and look up slowly. Long, muscled legs in beat up
dark blue jeans, an old black leather jacket open over a dark grey V-neck sweater
that showcases an impressive tall body with broad shoulders and finally,
longish and messy black hair, perfect straight nose, full lips, high cheekbones
and expressive soft dark eyes that lock with my bluish-greyish ones. He looks
older with his goatee perfectly trimmed. A perfect hot mess many girls would
say. I’m just intimidated by this stranger, though.
“I’m fine,” I reply, my voice
even. I push away some of my untamed locks and curse my auburn frizzy hair that
is always all over the place.
Review Snippets:
“Patch Up is a perfect mix of
everything I love in new adult Stephanie Witter made phenomenal job at creating
another gut wrenching story about fighting with depression and twist and turns
of life that hooked me and made me breathless.” Patrycja *Smokin' Hot Babe*
“The romance is slow-building and
that makes it feel more realistic. The storyline is strong and holds its own
without the romance and then the romance is just the cherry on the cake.” Laura Carter
“Patch Up is intense, riveting, heartbreakingly
sad at times, angsty, heartwarming, and inspirational. I was hooked from the
start. Had I not passed out in the wee hours of the morning, I would have read
Parch up straight through, it is THAT good.” Dawn L
“At the end of this book I was crying
hard and wished I could reach in and save Skye from her fate.” Author Karen
Swart
“You reach into the mind of the
main character, Skye, and find yourself looking at the world very differently.
The emotions I experience reading this novel was epic. One moment I would be so
sad, and then over to smiling and then boom, I hated someone.” Janine Fourie –
Eclipse Reviews
About The
Author
Stephanie Witter is a French dreamer. She started English at three and
fell in love with the language. Always with a book - or two - close by, she
soon started reading in English when she couldn't wait to see Harry Potter
translated in French. After a while, reading wasn't enough and she started
writing young adult and new adult contemporary novels always filled with drama.
Now she hopes to translate English novels in her mother tongue as her everyday
job. By My Side is her debut novel.
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