The Boy & His Ribbon by Pepper Winters
The Ribbon Duet Book 1
Publication Date: April 3rd, 2018
Genre: Coming of Age Romance
“What do you do when you meet your soul mate? No wait…that’s too easy. What do you do when you meet your soul mate and have to spend a lifetime loving him in secret?
I’ll tell you what you do.
You lie.”
REN
Ren was eight when he learned that love doesn’t exist—that the one person who was supposed to adore him only cared how much he was worth.
His mother sold him and for two years, he lived in terror.
But then…he ran.
He thought he’d run on his own. Turned out, he took something of theirs by accident and it became the one thing he never wanted and the only thing he ever needed.
DELLA
I was young when I fell in love with him, when he switched from my world to my everything.
My parents bought him for cheap labour, just like they had with many other kids, and he had the scars to prove it.
At the start, he hated me, and I could understand why.
For years he was my worst enemy, fiercest protector, and dearest friend.
But by the end…he loved me.
The only problem was, he loved me in an entirely different way to the way I loved him.
And slowly, my secret drove us apart.
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About the Author:
Pepper Winters is a multiple New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today International Bestseller.
After chasing her dreams to become a full-time writer, Pepper has earned recognition with awards for best Dark Romance, best BDSM Series, and best Hero. She’s an multiple #1 iBooks bestseller, along with #1 in Erotic Romance, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary, and Erotica Thriller. With 19 books currently published, she has hit the bestseller charts twenty-six times in three years.
Pepper is a Hybrid Author of both Traditional and Self-published work. Her Pure Corruption Series was released by Grand Central, Hachette.
Her books have garnered foreign interest and are currently being translated into numerous languages, including already released titles in Italian and Turkish. Audio Books for her entire back-list will be available in 2017.
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WOW!! What a journey this book takes us on.
Ren and Della’s story is full of emotion, love, heartbreak, but most of all it’s a story two young kids surviving in today’s world.
Ren was sold at a young age by his own mother to a ‘new family’. A slave is what he became. Punishments flowed for even the smallest infraction. Knowing this was not the way he wanted to continue living, he planned.
When the young Ren gathers up enough courage to finally run for freedom, there was one thing in his bag that was unexpected. One thing that would slow him down, one thing that he hated, one thing he couldn’t be free with…
Della…now that he had her, he couldn’t let her go. He tried and couldn’t go through with it. She was innocent in it all. Yet he felt the need to protect, felt the need to make sure she succeeded where he didn’t. She would become his entire life.
As we follow Ren and Della throughout the years of surviving, the bond between these two is amazing. Two peas in a pod. But with time, the innocence is gone, the maturity is there and realization that these two are more… It’s something that one is not willing to accept.
I was hooked. Carrying my kindle as I did my daily routing. Unable to put this down. Continuously reading non-stop as my love for these two characters grew page by page. Can Not wait until June when we get the conclusion to this beautiful story!!!
Ren and Della’s story is full of emotion, love, heartbreak, but most of all it’s a story two young kids surviving in today’s world.
Ren was sold at a young age by his own mother to a ‘new family’. A slave is what he became. Punishments flowed for even the smallest infraction. Knowing this was not the way he wanted to continue living, he planned.
When the young Ren gathers up enough courage to finally run for freedom, there was one thing in his bag that was unexpected. One thing that would slow him down, one thing that he hated, one thing he couldn’t be free with…
Della…now that he had her, he couldn’t let her go. He tried and couldn’t go through with it. She was innocent in it all. Yet he felt the need to protect, felt the need to make sure she succeeded where he didn’t. She would become his entire life.
As we follow Ren and Della throughout the years of surviving, the bond between these two is amazing. Two peas in a pod. But with time, the innocence is gone, the maturity is there and realization that these two are more… It’s something that one is not willing to accept.
I was hooked. Carrying my kindle as I did my daily routing. Unable to put this down. Continuously reading non-stop as my love for these two characters grew page by page. Can Not wait until June when we get the conclusion to this beautiful story!!!
It's not a story, it's a Fascination! ....Amazement!......wonder! The story doesn't need adjectives because it's a living, breathing entity, hence a noun. A perfect combination of grief and bliss. Making you float on pink cloud of love or be lashed by biting rain, all at the same time. LOVE changes like weather in this book, unpredictable and unexpected. Exactly like on a mountain, snow gives way to warmth and leaves that change colour.
I'm afraid my words won't do justice to this astounding journey . I took a hike through Ren & Della's life, running away from McLary's farm, to the mountains, to Polcart farm, to cherry river farm. Its soul changing pilgrimage watching a couple of kids clinging on to each other, battling elements and civilisation.
They're running from fate, authorities, and their own turbulent emotions. First of all, it's not a "-regular" Pepper book, it's not the typical dark BDSM stuff,sexual slavery trope. But a good writer is a good writer at the end of the day, the words she pens, glow golden, no matter the setting. Dark dungeons, an MC club, a shipwrecked island, a Phantom ship on sea or snow covered mountains, in this case. The surroundings maybe hopeless and dismal but her stories are like treasure chests of sparkly, shining, multi-faceted gems. There's pure, intense love, the kind that breaks fortified walls, crosses boundries( oh! Does it cross boundries!!!) and restores faith in humanity, there's a solid lesson in loyalty and allegiance, and a whole tutorial on mature responsibility.
I dived in blind, having not read any blurb or watched a teaser or trailer. What's the point, Pepper book is guaranteed exceptional, a sneak peek would've ruined my surprise. So I dived, headlong,and what a wonderful surprise it was.
I’d lived my life with one existence: where parents were cruel and beat their children, branded them with hot cattle irons, and fed them by trough and pail.
Ren is running from his slave-labour camp -McLary farm. Having been sold into bonded labour by his own mom, endured two years of torture & starvation, he finds an opening and he escapes. With a backpack full of survival gear ..........and a stowaway, with a Blue Ribbon clenched in her tiny fist.!!!!. A beautiful package he doesn't want, but he needs, because she will be his path to salvation
Now, I've read some reviews and I've my own views on how does a 10 year old boy take care of a 1 year old toddler, in the mountains, in the snow, in freezing temperatures and altitudes!! He's just a kid FFS! How much common sense or say survival skills did we have when we were 10...i'd say, we were barely aware of our surroundings.
my first step toward a future that would mean a life of struggle, hardship, unpredictability, uncertainty, and an unbelievable consequences.
BUT We were never raised and forced to work back-breaking manual labour on a farm, being one with the earth, living in its soil, filling our lungs with fresh air 24/7/365. Nature treats you like an adult the moment you're exposed to it, so I do believe that Ren was more capable of enduring exile and a baby, and the scenario, though implausible, is not impossible.
And we follow them both, away from this cruel world, high up in the mountains, they find their idyllic heaven. No monsterous men, no prying eyes, no judgemental questions, why are you with this baby, who is she, where are your parents, let's call the CPS?
No one..so they bloom like wild flowers, toughening up and conquering their hidden world , rather than just surviving. Triumph of human spirit when battling their environment, by blending in, rather than standing out....Fantastic stroke of genius pepper 👏
BUT this reclusive existence gives birth to a whole new set of problems. Since they're ONLY two in a symbiosis, it's natural progression that they become each others world exclusively, and they would fall in love.
You see, there was never a day in my life when I haven’t loved Ren Wild. Every memory, he’s there. Every experience, he’s with me. And for that... I almost hate him. There is no me without him,
Which begs for an answer to the morality question. I'll tell you this, society defines rules as a framework for moral attitudes of a society, and since I'm one of the society members, I say each situation demands different hallmarks. It's not one rule fits all!!.
They are NOT blood
They are NOT family
They are NOT brother and sister
I know you’re probably thinking... eww, how could you fall in love with your brother who is technically your father and definitely your uncle or some other untouchable life figure?
......How could you not fall in love with a boy who puts you first in everything, protects you at all costs, worships the ground you walk on, gives you things you didn’t know you wanted, who can hear your thoughts and see your fears? A boy who sacrificed so much without even telling you, leaving you heartbroken when you’re old enough to figure it out for yourself?
They're two separate individuals who have an affinity and family "LIKE" ties, just by the virtue of fellowship. I see them as Fellow travellers in the journey of life, let's put it this way!!
And who are we to define ANY parameters or boundaries of ANY relationship, for that matter, if the basic sentiment is LOVE !
I have to mention one very important things. All the authors need to take note especially
The most often used, or I should say abused word in novel, books after moist, is MINE!
The clichéd "you're MINE" is overused and oft repeated, yet hollow ringed.
The REAL meaning of "MINE" is what is explained in this book. It should be used as a yardstick to actually define what the word MINE means in true sense
She was mine. She was every hope and dream I’d ever had and the fabrication of every future I’d hoped for,I knew, without a shadow of doubt, she was the one I’d been searching for. She was the one born for me. She was the one I needed to find before I lost everything.
Read this and learn what it means to BELONG to somebody, what it means to OWN somebody, body & soul !. Brilliant!!
Mine to love, but keep safe, servicing her needs, before she knows them herself. To totally sacrifice your heart's calling just so she could find some semblance of order and stability in life .
I just loved that complex sentiment, explained so simply in this book.
Phew!! I've ranted, haven't I. But it's easy when this story has completely consumed and enveloped my mind. A story of forgiving, all encompassing love, the kind that makes you walk on egg shells, but be free with the other. Piercing your heart and making you giggle, giddy & untainted love of relationships so pure, so unpolluted, I cringed every time they came in contact with people and townsfolk. I was afraid it would get sullied and contaminated. But it doesn't! THAT'S the masterstroke of Pepper .
This is her BEST BOOK WRITTEN! .....yet!
Written so perfectly, not a single flaw visible in the plot, in narrative, in execution. Simply flawless perfection ! I'm so blessed, i got to read this book, met Ran and his Ribbon, met the gracious, generous Wilsons.theres still a lot of good in the world left.
I'm in a daze, like utter heavenly bliss, I so need book 2 like yesterday!!
5 "Wild & Ribbon" stars
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