Angry God
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Publisher Description
"Buckle up and enjoy the ride, because you're not coming out the same way you went in. A top 2020 read hands down.” Helena Hunting, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author
“Heartbreakingly beautiful, awe-inspiring, and gut-wrenching, Angry God is a unique masterpiece that will leave you gasping for air and crying for more. LJ Shen is in a league of her own and this book and series will forever leave a mark on your soul.” Rachel Brookes, Bestselling author
Vaughn Spencer.
They call him an angry god. To me, he is nothing but a heartless prince. His parents rule this town, its police, every citizen and boutique on Main Street. All I own is a nice, juicy grudge against him for that time he almost killed me. Between hooking up with a different girl every weekend, breaking hearts, noses and rules, Vaughn also finds the time to bully little ole’ me. I fight back, tooth and nail, never expecting him to chase me across the ocean after we graduate high school.
But here he is, living with me in a dark, looming castle on the outskirts of London. A fellow intern. A prodigal sculptor. A bloody genius. They say this place is haunted, and it is. Carlisle Castle hides two of our most awful secrets. Vaughn thinks he can kill the ghosts of his past, but what he doesn’t know? It’s my heart he’s slaying.
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This dark and somber contemporary, the third in Shen's All Saints series (after Broken Knight), pairs two tempestuous artists with a complicated history. Lenora Astalis is 12 and at her father's prestigious British art school when she sees genius fellow student Vaughn Spencer, 13, in a compromising moment that she doesn't fully understand—and he threatens to kill her if she ever tells anyone. The pair are reunited as high school seniors in California, where Lenora is determined not to cower before Vaughn like when she was a child. They clash dramatically as they compete for prestigious opportunities after graduation. When they're accepted into the same program, they're forced to live together in a British castle. An uneasy peace gives way to deep passion as secrets emerge and the painful emotional truth that Vaughn hides behind his heartless veneer comes to light, bonding him and Lenora irrevocably. It's incredibly difficult to like Vaughn at first, with Shen setting him up as a truly cruel individual before slowly humanizing him over the course of the novel and showing how Lenora's love provides him a safe space to let his guard down. Readers will need to be prepared to face heavy topics including violence, rape, and childhood sexual abuse. This is not for the faint of heart.
