A review by thebookishmedialite
Ripple Effect:Episode 1 by Keri Lake

5.0

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Ripple Effect:Noun 1. a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event.

Single action: READ THIS MOTHERFUCKING BOOK.

Consequences: Nails gone. Cry a river with Charlie. My sanity ripped out of my hands. Fall in love with an anti-hero. Get my heart broken with the hand Dylan was dealt in life.



Days of darkness make me smile
No one's safe here for a while
Say you're happy, yeah, for real
Come to my side, got time to kill.

Freak of mother, nature's game
I could blame her for my brain
Oh, oh, oh, oh...

Freak of nature by Broods

"A charming motherfucker with a gun. That's me."

Born in depravity, Ripley, RIP, has become a killer. A murderer. A Freak of nature.



She shines in a world full of ugliness
she matters when everything is meaningless.

Fragile...
he doesn't see her beauty
she tries to get away
sometimes
it's just that nothing seems worth saving
I can't watch her slip away

The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails

Dylan has watched him for months. She doesn't know who he is but he intrigued her enough to make of him a habit. A pattern of her life.

"I've been hurt in ways that have forever changed my landscape and numbed me to future pain."

Being handed a ridiculously sad hand in life, Dylan has been through a lot of shit. Pills are her only escape.

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So one day he found her crying
Coiled up on the dirty ground
Her prince finally came to save her
And the rest you can figure out
But it was a trick
And the clock struck twelve
Well make sure to build your house brick by boring brick
Or the wolf's gonna blow it down.

Brick by Boring Break by Paramore.

One night. Survival. One decision. Survival. A moment.

Will lead her to a series of consequences. A RIPPLE EFFECT .

3 BOOKS! That's the number of books I have read from Keri Lake. But the times she has made my heart stop is infinite. With just 3 books, Keri Lake has become an automatic "one'click" author for me. There is just something about Keri's writing that holds me captive.

Rippled Effect: Episode 1 pulled out all the stops...left me twisted up in knots, my heart in my throat...never knowing which way was right or wrong...and then gave me hope just to tear it out of my hands in one second.

Ripley & Dylan was a pair of flawed characters that pull at each one of my heart strings without even trying...good or bad, right or wrong...I don't care. They have my black heart in their hands.

Deliciously twisty, dark and I dare to say erotic. Keri Lake just gave us a taste of what's to come with this short but intense first episode. It ends in a I-will-die-if-I-don't-read-the-next-book-ASAP kind of cliffy.

You have been warned.