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Splinters of You (Retired Sinners Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Anne Malcom (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 out of 5 stars 174
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Words are my weapon.
Stories wrap around my soul, choking me, capturing you.
I don't work in dreams.
I don't offer escapes.
I cage you within my nightmares.

Magnolia Grace is a horror writer, despite what the name might suggest.
One of the best in the business, if you asked around.
Pressure comes with that title. Expectation for the next nightmare. The next bestseller.
Sickness.
That's what it is.
She can't be healthy. Because that means she won't write.
And she hasn't been writing.
A looming deadline and a crumbling psyche drive her into the woods. To a cabin which was the site of a grizzly murder.
A serial killer, butchering women, toying with her.
Her plan is to borrow some of the horror that seeped into the soil.
But hers follows her.
The woods are meant to be her escape. But they are almost her demise.
Almost.
He was an unlikely saviour. An unlikely muse. He has horrors of his own. A motorcycle club looking to settle a score. A soul too broken to offer her anything but pain.
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    Retired Sinners
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B085XR1PB2
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3383 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
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Anne Malcom

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Anne Malcom has been an avid reader since before she can remember, her mother responsible for her book addiction. It started with magical journeys into the world of Hogwarts and Middle Earth, then as she grew up her reading tastes grew with her. Her obsession with books and romance novels in particular gave Anne the opportunity to find another passion, writing. Finding writing about alpha males and happily ever afters more fun than reading about them, Anne is not about to stop any time soon.

Raised in small town New Zealand, Anne had a truly special childhood, growing up in one of the most beautiful countries in the world. She has backpacked across Europe, ridden camels in the Sahara, eaten her way through Italy, and had all sorts of crazy adventures. She's found her own happy ever after and now lives in the US with her husband and their two dogs.

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AmbzyRoseBooks
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!
Reviewed in Australia on 30 April 2020
Release Date: 30 April 2020
Spoken In: Heroines Perspective - Magnolia
Rating: 4.5 Stars ⭐️

Splinters Of You is a full length dark novel in Anne Malcoms new Retired Sinners MC series.

So the cover and the blurb is what drew me in. I've never read anything by this author before so I didn't know what to expect. This isn't something I would typically read, I like for my books to be bit more on the steamy side. Yes their is 'love story' but its more on the back burner than the main focus but let me tell you this book CONSUMED me.

I've never read a heroine like Magnolia. You don't know whether to love or hate her but I LOVED her. She's damaged and flawed, she doesn't to try to be anything but herself which may make her come off as rude to some people but she's REAL her brutal honesty was something to admire and being inside her head and reading her thought process was pure chaos.

Saint is our hero in this book and although we don't get inside his head he was perfect for Magnolia. They were complete opposites but so similar at the same time. They weren't the lovely dovey type of couple but it worked for them.

This book read like something out of a horror movie. It was dark, gritty and full of so much suspense. It will test your sanity at every turn and I enjoyed it immensely.

ARC kindly provided for an honest review.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A must read for 2020
Reviewed in Australia on 3 May 2020
Splinters of You is book one in Anne Malcom’s new series Retired Sinners MC. I finished reading this book days ago and it’s taken me a few to reel in enough to write this review.

Firstly it is dark, intense, emotional and all consuming. Be mindful it may contain triggers, but it needs to be on your must read for the year.

Magnolia Grace, not a name you would distinguish as a Dark, gritty and demon filled author, but that is exactly what she is. Magnolia is a New York bestseller with 15 best seller books. With writers block and in need of change, she packs up her life in New York, leaves behind a fiancé and moves to a small town called Terror in the middle of nowhere. Now the name alone should make you wonder what a New Yorker with loads of money would want in this town, but it’s got more to do with Emily. Emily a local woman murdered gruesomely in the backyards first her cabin, the cabin that Magnolia now owns and lives in.

This books was addictive, fast paced, and intriguing, I was hooked from the beginning and could wait to see what was going to happen. The characters were interesting, honest, and witty. I loved every minute of this story and was upset and disappointed when it ended only because I wasn’t ready to say goodbye.

Well done Anne and another wonderful story and I look forward to what more you have in store for this series.
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Shelley
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastically dark😱
Reviewed in Australia on 30 April 2020
I’m ashamed to say when I first started reading this book I told my hubby I can’t read it at night because it had a serial killer in it! Suffice to say in order to get it read because I was behind schedule, I continued reading that night. Man this book is amazing and yes different to anything else Anne has produced. I’d say it has a similar feel to SOT and Doyenne but a bit darker but just a shade😍

Death, mayhem and some violence are all themes running throughout this book but also intelligence and snark❣️I loved Magnolia’s character and how she’s perceived by everyone and yes, the sexy Saint gave her a run for her money 💵 A definite must read book for 2020👍

I certainly hope there is more coming in this series as I can certainly see a few more books in this series and I’m super excited to see what journey Anne takes us on❤️ I received an advanced copy and I willingly leave my honest review🤩
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Wooples
5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing Short of Wicked Brilliance!
Reviewed in Australia on 1 May 2020
If you thought Anne Malcom had found her darkness with Birds Of Paradise, think again.
With Splinters Of You she hasn't just embraced the dark, she's drawn herself a bath of blood and evil and bathed in it until it's permeated her pores!

This story is nothing short of the wicked brilliance.
Look up "dark" in the Thesaurus. You'll see sinister, vile, atrocious, foul, damnable, sinful...check, check, check, check and check! This book is all that and heinously more!
And my dark little soul absolutely LOVED IT!!!

Magnolia Grace is a monster. A monster of the literary world and in so many other delicious ways.
A preeminent author of horror, she's accomplished, confident, ruthless...but currently wordless and in need of inspiration with a deadline looming.

So she takes herself off to a cabin in the woods that was the host of a grisly murder to get her own ghastly creative juices flowing, and she's seeking to spice those up by sucking any evil that lurks in the lives locals she can find.
She just didn't count on them sucking anything vaguely resembling "emotions" from her!

This is nothing like Anne's previous works, it's so, so much more murky violent and unforgiving.
Magnolia is such a wonderful character; the perfect anti-heroine and now my favourite female character of any story I have read EVER!! She's just so awful, I love her!

And though there's a romantic element to this story and so despite her love interest in this one being a sensational damnable character in his own right, it's the immersion into the mind of true monsters that's the core of this story and it's an edge of your seat, nail biting page turner, that will have you leaving the light on and checking the shadows.

Don't think about this one, just one-click it, read it, live it and survive it!
You might be scared, but you won't be sorry!!
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Amanda Drummond
4.0 out of 5 stars A bit different
Reviewed in Australia on 30 April 2020
Dark, twisted and unique, this story is unlike anything I’ve read from this author. The suspense will keep you hanging for more. I don’t know how else to describe it without giving stuff away, so you’ll just have to check it out for yourself!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 June 2022
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Loved this book. Had me hooked from the start and I finished it within 3 days.
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Kahea46
5.0 out of 5 stars ***5 ‘I’d Much Rather Live My Nightmare In Peace Rather Than My Dream in Terror’ Stars***
Reviewed in the United States on 30 April 2020
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***5 ‘I’d Much Rather Live My Nightmare In Peace Rather Than My Dream in Terror’ Stars***

There are books you devour and there are books you savour...this was a book I savoured because it needed to be, because it demanded that it be. From the first page it demanded my full attention and to take in every word as if it there were the most precious metals in the world and I enjoyed every single one and absolutely hated it when there were no more to read.

Magnolia Grace enchanted me. Yes, she is something of an anti-heroine. She may not be someone you will like, much less love, but she ended up being everything for me. Her brutal honesty about herself, those around her and just how she saw the world spoke to me on a level I don’t always experience. Her inconsistencies, which weren’t all that inconsistent in the end, intrigued me and I have to admit I kind of want to be like her when I ‘grow up’, though I doubt I’d even come close.

This book was definitely not what I thought it would be and I loved it. It does go to some dark places, there are triggers and it will definitely have you questioning your own demons, but it also has just enough not so dark moments to balance everything out. And as for the secondary characters? Well, the ones that end up sticking to Magnolia, I loved. They were all unique characters that made this book a lot of fun to read and I cannot wait to get to know them better, because only the surface was scratched on just what makes them all tick. Now you may, or may not, be wondering why I didn’t do a section on Magnolia’s ‘Muse’, well, because I didn’t want to give too much about him away, though I will say that I kinda adored him from the start.

~ Copy provided by the author & voluntarily reviewed ~
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Kira
5.0 out of 5 stars If your soul longs for a twisted story, go for it!
Reviewed in Germany on 16 January 2021
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"Because Monsters are real. They live inside of us all,..."
Thank you for this book. I loved every word of it.
I never write a recension on amazon, but I needed to do it now.
The author wrote with so much passion, hurt and fear, I could feel it.
It's dark, twisted und like nothing else I read before.
I can definitely say this book is in my Top 5.
Please, I want more!
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Lowthiancassie
4.0 out of 5 stars Slow at fist but gets better
Reviewed in the United States on 31 August 2022
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🔪“I’m selfish, at my core. Which is why love never lasts for me. I’m not willing to give up as much of myself as true love requires.”🔪

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⁣Magnolia Grace, not a name you would distinguish as a Dark, gritty and demon filled author, but that is exactly what she is. Magnolia is a New York bestseller with 15 best seller books. With writers block and in need of change, she packs up her life in New York, leaves behind a fiancé and moves to a small town called Terror in the middle of nowhere. Now the name alone should make you wonder what a New Yorker with loads of money would want in this town, but it’s got more to do with Emily. Emily a local woman murdered gruesomely in the backyards first her cabin, the cabin that Magnolia now owns and lives in.

Deep, dark, and beautifully written. I enjoyed it immensely! I will say that it took me a while to get into it, the beginning was slow but when it got good, it got GOOD. This book kept me guessing the entire time. I never knew exactly what was happening, but in a good way. I was constantly making my own theories or trying to figure out the authors next move, but was always surprised at the outcome. It was very dark, daunting, and sometimes a little morbid, but I loved it!
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Kindle Customer
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed
Reviewed in Canada on 2 June 2021
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I have read all Annes books and thoroughly enjoyed them, except this one. I could not warm up to maggie and i found that 3/4 of the book was inner dialogue. It was really hard to keep focused.
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