Thursday, March 21, 2019

Book Review and Giveaway for While I Was Away by Stylo Fantome


WHILE I WAS AWAY
by STYLO FANTOME

You were in a car accident.

They say true love can last forever.

You hit your head, which caused your brain to swell.

Can span any distance, stretch across time, last beyond death.

The pressure against your skull damaged your brain.

Which leads one to wonder …

The damage left you unresponsive to most kinds of stimuli.

If you fall in love in your dreams,

And this unresponsive state is what's known as a coma.

Can you find that love when you wake up?


REVIEW: 4.5 STARS
"You and I, we're something bigger. Something better."

Fantastical
Mystical
Eclectic
Mind Boggling
Super Natural
Wondrous

I can use any and all of those words to describe this newest addicting romance by Stylo Fantôme. I picked up the book and never put it down. What a trip!!! If you like a different type of read, one that makes you think outside the normal spectrum of reality, this is the book for you. This book, for me, was seriously a one-off from my norm, but also one that has me excited to talk about. There were some neat understandings coming to light as I was reading it and I was seriously giddy while I was trying to explain it to someone! This was SO good!!! So neat!

Stylo's writing is definitely a different style. More....eclectic of sorts. The existence that we count as our norm doesn't always come in her books, and while that makes her a sometimes scary pick for me, I have enjoyed more of her books than not. So this one, the journey was so different and so bizarre, yet so catchy and so intriguing. I want to discuss this one!!! The intricacies. The wonder. The love. All of it. I loved this book. I can say, the only issue I had was in the very beginning when we started this trip, er....I mean, this book because I was almost questioning the trope that this was. I was almost wondering if it was a women's fiction/science fiction type of read. But once I settled in, I seriously could not put it down.

"What if this is a dream?"
"Then I hope we don't wake up."


This book had magic written all over it. Thinking waaaay outside the box, but also a jaunt into the in between netherworlds. This book seriously gave me LIFE. It provided me some giggles, some smiles, a few gasps and I actually got teary-eyed. I want to talk and discuss and vent and debate and explain and ARGH!! I want to watch you like a creeper while you read it so I can say, "Right?? I told you so!!" I want to relive this through someone else's eyes. I really, really liked this one and falling in love with this couple just kinda made me slow down and sigh. Fate. Dreams. Reality. Understanding. Oh my gosh....it just made me kinda question things and yet, it made me accept and believe. So. Darn. Good. I want so badly to say, look for this or pay attention to this, but there is so much about this book that you just need to immerse yourself in and discover. Pay attention and soak it up. It's so wonderful. So neat. I know I sound like a broken record now....

And just remember: Here is Now.

"Just because you can't recognize me, doesn't mean your soul can't."
~BEE




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~MEET STYLO FANTÔME~
Crazy woman from a remote 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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