From the childhood foster homes he was bounced around to, the one love he lost and hordes of nameless groupies, even his own bandmates—Your Toxic Sequel’s drummer, Sinjin Fields, has been called it all. That doesn't include the names he calls himself. He knows he’s an addict—knows he’s damaged goods. He doesn’t care, though; drowning out the world numbs him. And for Sin, that’s the closest he'll get to happiness.
When a drug-fueled confrontation nearly costs him his closest friend and bandmate, Sinjin is faced with no other choice but to confront each screwed-up facet of who he is and how he got there. What he never expected to encounter was Zoe—an over-achieving, fresh-faced violin prodigy who can’t seem to stay away from him. Not that Sinjin wants her to. She reminds him of the undamaged part of himself. Makes him feel emotions he didn’t know he could feel.
Possessive. Protective. Love?
And Sinjin will battle every demon haunting him so he doesn’t have to let that go.
This book contains adult content and language. Although this book features characters from the DEVOURED series and SAVOR YOU, it is a standalone and can be read without reading the other books.
Emily Snow is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who loves angst, hot alphaholes, and enemies-to-lovers, so naturally, she writes stories about all three.
When she's not writing, she's busy being a wife, mom, and trashy reality TV addict. You know, because of all the angst and drama...
Frustrating that this author seems to write great books and struggle with deadlines and communicating with her fans... it seems clear enough:
* Set a realistic release date * Release the book. * If there's an issue, let your readers know and either set another realistic release date, or tell them why you can't set another date. * Don't continually tease your readers about a release date, constantly move the date (what was "Consumed"... like a year and 5 or 6 dates later?)
Now I just expect it from Ms. Snow... in the past I was frustrated but the anticipation of the book made up for it. Now? eh... not so much - I've found other authors to read and I'll skip "Damaging Me". I'm not bitter, just resigned and over it. I wish her and her many devoted fans the best of luck!
12/7/14: Supprise, supprise. October 2014 turned into November 2014 and then sometime in 2015. Sound familiar?
11/29/15: Hello? Hello? Sinjin are you there? No? I didn't think so, I have been waiting on you for over a year. I know, I know. You have been on tour with Lucas and the band. But, in failing to show like you said you have lost your loyal fans. Piece out my friend.
Update 11/28/14:Damaging Me will not be released as originally planned on 11/30/14. Pushed back to early 2015. *sighs* Damn. Is this book going to get pushed back as many times as Consumed was?
hoollly shit! kapaktaki oğlanı bir yerden tanıyorum ya, Allah Kerim, bulurum.
2021 edit: çok boş yapıyorum farkındayım ama kitaplığı düzenlerken denk gelince bi bakim dedim de kime benzediğini buldum. Jonathan Rhys Meyers ve Zac Efron'ın bir erkek evlatları olsaydı bu olurdu. teşekkürler. edit bitti.
This is a Facebook post Emily Snow made on 9/20/2015 regarding the publication of her book "Second Verse" which is also pretty behind it's original schedule:
Hey guys. Just wanted to say a thank you to everyone who’s read First Verse and who’s waiting—patiently or impatiently—for Second Verse. I haven’t hit publish yet, but I will do my best to put it up soon. As I’ve stated before, the book is finished. In fact, I wrote Second Verse before I wrote First Verse (I’d initially intended to release them in the same fashion that I released Devoured and All Over You but changed my mind). As many of you know, I had issues when I tried to release the book the first time and to be honest, it did a number on my head, which made me afraid of releasing. I KNOW reading that will not make sense to many people—and I know I’m about to get the hell flamed out of me for admitting it—but it’s the truth.
I’ve posted this here before in a post a while back, but for anyone new, I’ve struggled with depression and bipolar disorder for years. Combined with some pretty crappy physical health-related news and the drama surrounding the first release date and not being able to get it live, I FROZE on release day. I don’t like to put myself out there, especially about this subject because I’m so sensitive and I absolutely don’t want to be ridiculed about my mental health, but I kind of feel like it’s something I HAVE to do because I've gotten a ton of messages wanting answers.For those unfamiliar with bipolar, it comes with crippling self doubt. When you combine that with my profession … well, it’s often difficult to overcome. I started writing to give my brain a way to deal with fear but it’s still there. Often. More often than I want. It’s affected my release schedule before (hell, I ended up restarting Sinjin’s book a few times because I kept second guessing myself) but I’m going to figure out how to keep it from affecting it again. Even if that means that after I hit that button for this book, I’ll take a very long break to figure things out. I don’t expect everyone to understand how my brain works—my husband has yet to figure it out and he’s been married to me for eleven years—and I don’t want to sound sappy, but I DO think you guys deserve to know.
I am grateful to each and every one of you. Seriously. I know I don’t post very often—I have eighty million kids and lately exhaustion has kicked my ass--but I’m incredibly thankful and appreciative of my readers. Thanks for reading this, guys. I’ll hit publish as soon as I can.