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Forgive Me, Nadia
From the author of the heart-wrenching memoir Mother at Seven, now comes the chilling and unforgettable novel – Forgive Me, Nadia. Based on a true story, this book takes you into the world of secrets and darkness. This thrilling story touches all of your emotions. It has you alongside a young girl in her challenging path filled with love, pain, captivity, betrayal, and the ultimate test of her faith. The beautiful Russian girl Natalia lives with her parents in a small village outside of Moscow. The day before she turns 14, her alcoholic parents sell her for ten bottles of vodka to a sex-trafficking organization. A month after her 17th birthday, Natalia gives birth to a little girl whom she names Nadia, which means "hope." Unfortunately, her happiness ends the very next day when a hired killer and Madam Liz, force the young mother to leave her newborn inside a dumpster in a dark alley. That night destiny shows Natalia there is genuine power in belief. The real challenges are still ahead, and her will to survive is about to be tested at the highest possible level. Can Natalia find the strength? Can she find the way out and escape her captivity?
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272 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 30, 2017
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About the author
Veronika Gasparyan
2 books165 followersVeronika Gasparyan, author of “Mother at Seven,” was born in the beautiful city of Sochi, Russia in 1981. She is a proud descendant of many generations of Armenian ancestors from both sides of her family.
From a very young age, Veronika enjoyed playing piano, which resulted in her attending a music school for ten years, and eventually, the prestigious Sochi College of Arts and Music.
Other than the music, Veronika has always displayed a profound love of reading, and at a very young age, read dozens of books from her grandfather’s vast, personal library.
Veronika possesses an innate passion to help others in any way that she can, which has displayed itself in many situations throughout her early years and adult life. She considers herself to be a true survivor of what many would call a traumatic and brutal childhood, but has still found a way to not lose her kindness, patience or hope for better days.
Veronika is a strong believer in laws of attraction and positive thinking and is working on other books that she hopes will provide emotional support to those who are in need -- those who have given-up or are losing their hope for better days and a joyful life.
Veronika believes her lifelong mission is to help other by helping one person at a time while making the world a better place for all.
From a very young age, Veronika enjoyed playing piano, which resulted in her attending a music school for ten years, and eventually, the prestigious Sochi College of Arts and Music.
Other than the music, Veronika has always displayed a profound love of reading, and at a very young age, read dozens of books from her grandfather’s vast, personal library.
Veronika possesses an innate passion to help others in any way that she can, which has displayed itself in many situations throughout her early years and adult life. She considers herself to be a true survivor of what many would call a traumatic and brutal childhood, but has still found a way to not lose her kindness, patience or hope for better days.
Veronika is a strong believer in laws of attraction and positive thinking and is working on other books that she hopes will provide emotional support to those who are in need -- those who have given-up or are losing their hope for better days and a joyful life.
Veronika believes her lifelong mission is to help other by helping one person at a time while making the world a better place for all.
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April 25, 2018
This was horrible.
The writing was awful and the editor should be fired.
Broken storyline, choppy sentence structure and soooo many grammatical errors I was embarrassed for the publisher.
On top of the grammar and spelling errors (which should have been enough to get the editor fired in itself) there were actual verbatim paragraphs and pages repeated one right after the other.
It’s as if no one wanted to read the book before publishing it….though after reading it I understand why they skipped that step.
Let me clarify…this is not an ARC…this is a final copy published and rented from my library.
I have no idea how this made it to print.
The story is apparently a “true” story, not the authors story, and beyond ridiculous.
The author glazed over the MC’s entire backstory and left giant plot holes in the parts she did include.
All the important bits were barely there and she spent waaaaaaay too much time on insignificant details.
A 14 year old girl sold into a sex trafficking ring and held captive against her will for 3 years.
She gets pregnant and is forced to abandon her baby less than 24 hours after she gives birth.
I was ready to have my heart strings pulled.
Sadly this was not going to happen.
I will put the rest in a spoiler….though I think I would only being do you a favour by revealing how badly this book sucked…I don’t want to ruin this book for anyone who may actually enjoy it…if those people exist.
This book ends on a “cliff-hanger” which would normally drive me bananas waiting for the next book.
I ran out of fucks to give about this entire thing less than 50 pages in.
The only reason I finished it is because I have a mild case of OCD and I am unable to DNF books.
I was going to include a few snippets so you could see what I’m talking about, but I decided not to subject you to that pain and instead have burned it alive. (Not really though I would never do that to my librarians they're so freaking awesome!)
Do not waste your time on this book.
The writing was awful and the editor should be fired.
Broken storyline, choppy sentence structure and soooo many grammatical errors I was embarrassed for the publisher.
On top of the grammar and spelling errors (which should have been enough to get the editor fired in itself) there were actual verbatim paragraphs and pages repeated one right after the other.
It’s as if no one wanted to read the book before publishing it….though after reading it I understand why they skipped that step.
Let me clarify…this is not an ARC…this is a final copy published and rented from my library.
I have no idea how this made it to print.
The story is apparently a “true” story, not the authors story, and beyond ridiculous.
The author glazed over the MC’s entire backstory and left giant plot holes in the parts she did include.
All the important bits were barely there and she spent waaaaaaay too much time on insignificant details.
A 14 year old girl sold into a sex trafficking ring and held captive against her will for 3 years.
She gets pregnant and is forced to abandon her baby less than 24 hours after she gives birth.
I was ready to have my heart strings pulled.
Sadly this was not going to happen.
I will put the rest in a spoiler….though I think I would only being do you a favour by revealing how badly this book sucked…I don’t want to ruin this book for anyone who may actually enjoy it…if those people exist.
This book ends on a “cliff-hanger” which would normally drive me bananas waiting for the next book.
I ran out of fucks to give about this entire thing less than 50 pages in.
The only reason I finished it is because I have a mild case of OCD and I am unable to DNF books.
I was going to include a few snippets so you could see what I’m talking about, but I decided not to subject you to that pain and instead have burned it alive. (Not really though I would never do that to my librarians they're so freaking awesome!)
Do not waste your time on this book.
April 24, 2018
To start off, I never write reviews. I usually just rate them, and move on with my life. Either forgetting a less than perfect book, or just basking in the happiness of a really great one. I had to with this one though. I can’t just let it slide.
I can’t even begin to explain to you how utterly shit this was. It was so bad, that I had to finish it to be able to review it. Then I found out there’s a sequel and the book ends on a cliff hanger. I feel like hanging myself.
This is possibly the worst book I’ve ever read. Maybe I’m too harsh. Maybe just the worst book I’ve read in the last decade. I can’t remember before. This is certainly the only book that’s made me so furious for wasting my time.
The writing was so bad, I felt like it was written by a kid. I sincerely doubt that it was proofread, or someone would have surely picked up on the THOUSANDS of times “the poor girl” “the distraught girl” “the nervous girl” “the poor woman” was used. Whyyyy?!!
To the author: *Liam Neeson voice*
If you ever write “the poor girl” ever again, I will find you. And I will kill you.
All jokes aside, it really really drove me mental.
Also, I felt like the whole book was just describing an act and then telling us how the character feels, in case you’re an idiot. “This happened, and this made Nadia sad”.
The story..... well the story. It reminded me a lot of the telenovelas my grandma used to watch in the 90s, but with worse dialogue and less believable drama. Also absolutely no character development. I honestly couldn’t care less about any of the hardships that the characters had to endure.
It was so ridiculous. Everyone instantly adores the main character, she gets special treatment and life in a SIBERIAN prison is a nice and lovely experience. She learns so much and is able to get so many degrees... I can’t even go on.
Please lady, either stop writing, or take a lot of classes. It’s not working out.
I can’t even begin to explain to you how utterly shit this was. It was so bad, that I had to finish it to be able to review it. Then I found out there’s a sequel and the book ends on a cliff hanger. I feel like hanging myself.
This is possibly the worst book I’ve ever read. Maybe I’m too harsh. Maybe just the worst book I’ve read in the last decade. I can’t remember before. This is certainly the only book that’s made me so furious for wasting my time.
The writing was so bad, I felt like it was written by a kid. I sincerely doubt that it was proofread, or someone would have surely picked up on the THOUSANDS of times “the poor girl” “the distraught girl” “the nervous girl” “the poor woman” was used. Whyyyy?!!
To the author: *Liam Neeson voice*
If you ever write “the poor girl” ever again, I will find you. And I will kill you.
All jokes aside, it really really drove me mental.
Also, I felt like the whole book was just describing an act and then telling us how the character feels, in case you’re an idiot. “This happened, and this made Nadia sad”.
The story..... well the story. It reminded me a lot of the telenovelas my grandma used to watch in the 90s, but with worse dialogue and less believable drama. Also absolutely no character development. I honestly couldn’t care less about any of the hardships that the characters had to endure.
It was so ridiculous. Everyone instantly adores the main character, she gets special treatment and life in a SIBERIAN prison is a nice and lovely experience. She learns so much and is able to get so many degrees... I can’t even go on.
Please lady, either stop writing, or take a lot of classes. It’s not working out.
February 26, 2018
This book wasn't what I expected. It was way to fast paced. There was one point where 10 pages spanned 7 years. I work for a non-profit organization that also deals with a couple human trafficking groups, and I was disappointed how the book went about describing that part of the book.
January 26, 2018
The book, even though it contained the horror of being a sex slave and being in jail, came across as a kids fairy tale. With all the bad things that happened to her, she then had unbelievable good things happening after that. It read like a fairy tale where everything turns our perfectly, and the writing was also a bit ‘young’ if that makes sense.
December 12, 2017
The Best Novel of 2017. A MUST Read!
February 14, 2018
A heart-rending look into the sex-trafficking industry.
Forgive Me, Nadia is an eye-opening, horrifically brutal account of one girl’s life. Natalia was raised in a small village outside Moscow, and then just before her 14th birthday, her alcoholic parents sold her to a sex-trafficking organisation in Moscow, her price, ten bottles of vodka!
A natural beauty, had things been different Natalia could have become a model or movie star. However this is not to be her fate, instead when we meet her for the first time she is just seventeen, locked in a filthy room, fed and watered when her pimp decides, and she is about to have a baby.
Alone Natalia brings her precious daughter into the world, and with her mothering instincts naturally aroused she falls in love with her new-born, whom she calls Nadia. Briefly she dreams of doing the normal mother-daughter things with her as she grows up, however, these dreams are quickly and cruelly dashed when Madam Liz, the organisations overseer of the ‘working girls’ arrives, and announces that the baby is to be got rid of.
Heart-broken Natalia begs Madam Liz for mercy, and pleads for her infant’s life. Finally, she is offered a solution, it breaks her heart, but she knows that if her daughter is to stand a chance she must agree to leave her in a dumpster, and to an unknown fate.
From then on life has other cruel cards to deal Natalia, and it is incredible that one young woman could suffer so much hardship and sorrow, through no fault of her own. However, Natalia’s strong faith, kind heart and compassion to others is a true inspiration, and it is heart-warming to read how she transforms the lives and futures of those who know her with the beauty of her spirit.
Unfortunately it is a horrific fact that sex-slave trafficking is still going on in Moscow, and throughout the world, and very young children are sold and stolen to provide sexual gratification for cruel and perverted adults.
This story brings the plight of one of these children to the attention of its reader. Natalia’s life and what happens next in Nadia’s makes compelling reading.
The author’s attention to detail about the life of Natalia both as a sex slave and afterwards makes parts of it heart-breaking. However, perhaps the most shocking thing is that it is based on a true story, somewhere out there this woman exists...
Forgive Me, Nadia is an eye-opening, horrifically brutal account of one girl’s life. Natalia was raised in a small village outside Moscow, and then just before her 14th birthday, her alcoholic parents sold her to a sex-trafficking organisation in Moscow, her price, ten bottles of vodka!
A natural beauty, had things been different Natalia could have become a model or movie star. However this is not to be her fate, instead when we meet her for the first time she is just seventeen, locked in a filthy room, fed and watered when her pimp decides, and she is about to have a baby.
Alone Natalia brings her precious daughter into the world, and with her mothering instincts naturally aroused she falls in love with her new-born, whom she calls Nadia. Briefly she dreams of doing the normal mother-daughter things with her as she grows up, however, these dreams are quickly and cruelly dashed when Madam Liz, the organisations overseer of the ‘working girls’ arrives, and announces that the baby is to be got rid of.
Heart-broken Natalia begs Madam Liz for mercy, and pleads for her infant’s life. Finally, she is offered a solution, it breaks her heart, but she knows that if her daughter is to stand a chance she must agree to leave her in a dumpster, and to an unknown fate.
From then on life has other cruel cards to deal Natalia, and it is incredible that one young woman could suffer so much hardship and sorrow, through no fault of her own. However, Natalia’s strong faith, kind heart and compassion to others is a true inspiration, and it is heart-warming to read how she transforms the lives and futures of those who know her with the beauty of her spirit.
Unfortunately it is a horrific fact that sex-slave trafficking is still going on in Moscow, and throughout the world, and very young children are sold and stolen to provide sexual gratification for cruel and perverted adults.
This story brings the plight of one of these children to the attention of its reader. Natalia’s life and what happens next in Nadia’s makes compelling reading.
The author’s attention to detail about the life of Natalia both as a sex slave and afterwards makes parts of it heart-breaking. However, perhaps the most shocking thing is that it is based on a true story, somewhere out there this woman exists...
June 7, 2018
I absolutely loved this book, with one very small exception, the cliff-hanging ending. I wanted more, much more.
As per Ms. Gasparyan, the book is a fictionalized account of a true story of a girl/woman caught in the world of sex-trafficking and her escape from that disgusting environment to become a very successful business woman.
Whether fictionalized or not, this book tore at my heart strings visualizing the pain and suffering that Natalia went through from the very young age of 14 and the numbing losses that she endured.
If you don't feel the same during the reading and after the reading of this fantastic novel, either you have no heart or one that is completely made of stone.
I fortunately, through God's Grace, have never had to experience the world of sex trafficking nor would I ever wish it on even my worst enemies. However through Ms. Gaparyan's beautiful and extremely wonderful descriptions I feel like I was somehow in the story and experiencing through a 3rd part's eyes what was going on.
If you want or need to see a totally different world that we are Blessed not having to live and have empathy for those who do live 24/7 all their lives, you need to read this book. It will not disappoint you.
From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you Ms Gasparyan for opening my eyes to this disgusting world, for teaching me and resulting in me giving thanks that I will never have to experience these horrors.
As per Ms. Gasparyan, the book is a fictionalized account of a true story of a girl/woman caught in the world of sex-trafficking and her escape from that disgusting environment to become a very successful business woman.
Whether fictionalized or not, this book tore at my heart strings visualizing the pain and suffering that Natalia went through from the very young age of 14 and the numbing losses that she endured.
If you don't feel the same during the reading and after the reading of this fantastic novel, either you have no heart or one that is completely made of stone.
I fortunately, through God's Grace, have never had to experience the world of sex trafficking nor would I ever wish it on even my worst enemies. However through Ms. Gaparyan's beautiful and extremely wonderful descriptions I feel like I was somehow in the story and experiencing through a 3rd part's eyes what was going on.
If you want or need to see a totally different world that we are Blessed not having to live and have empathy for those who do live 24/7 all their lives, you need to read this book. It will not disappoint you.
From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you Ms Gasparyan for opening my eyes to this disgusting world, for teaching me and resulting in me giving thanks that I will never have to experience these horrors.
finished-but-hated
May 3, 2025finally reaching the events of Chapter 9 after so much bland prose:
reading the trainwreck of Nadia's brattiness in Chapter 10:
the rollercoaster of events of Chapters 11 and 12:
seeing that there's a part 2:
going to the author's website and finding only a blank page:
finally checking both the author's Amazon and GR profiles to see it's been 8 years since this book and there's no evidence of the supposed part 2 being published anywhere:
reading the trainwreck of Nadia's brattiness in Chapter 10:
the rollercoaster of events of Chapters 11 and 12:
seeing that there's a part 2:
going to the author's website and finding only a blank page:
finally checking both the author's Amazon and GR profiles to see it's been 8 years since this book and there's no evidence of the supposed part 2 being published anywhere:
July 1, 2022
Great Fiction!!
This is an excellent book and well written!! It's very unrealistic to be a true story, but the book in self its great!! Keeps you on the edge and wanting to know every chapter what's going to happen next. I just hate cliffhangers. This is the second book I've read from this author and the second "to be continued". If I wanted a series I would watch soap operas...........
This is an excellent book and well written!! It's very unrealistic to be a true story, but the book in self its great!! Keeps you on the edge and wanting to know every chapter what's going to happen next. I just hate cliffhangers. This is the second book I've read from this author and the second "to be continued". If I wanted a series I would watch soap operas...........
December 3, 2022
I don't like to do a negative review but I received this book from the Goodreads Giveaway for a review. The story seemed unbelievable to me. The writing is child like and that may be because English is the authors second language. It also didn't tie up the story but mentions a next book. This was published in 2017 and I don't see that a next book was published. I wouldn't bother reading it anyway.
November 30, 2017
This is such a gripping book I read it in a day. Veronika is a very talented writer and her books are compelling reads. Wonderful! Much recommended. I cannot wait for its sequel!
December 27, 2022
very good would read book by her. and i won it free.
January 18, 2023
Good book but it's annoying we don't get the end and this is the second book she's written with an unfulfilled promise of a sequel.
September 11, 2024
Goodreads give away winner.
This book was very much worth the read. An enjoyable story.
This book was very much worth the read. An enjoyable story.
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