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Dope Sick Love
**RELEASE DATE 3.6.20**
Hazel is as blissful as one can be. After ten years of sublime marriage, her and Bridger still find themselves curled up in the sheets, panting like dogs in heat. Their marriage is one other couples either envy or aspire towards.
Life can’t get any better, but it can get worse. Insurmountably worse.
Hazel’s world is splintered when she finds out Bridger’s demons swirl in a small, glass pipe. They fill his lungs and his mind with empty promises of escape and happiness.
Truths are revealed and secret lives are brought to the surface as Hazel finds herself in the fight for Bridger’s life. She has to quickly learn to navigate life with a man she doesn’t recognize anymore and whose every move is controlled by the need to escape his past.
Even with the help of Mags and Sage along the way, no one can anticipate Bridger’s next move. He’s as unpredictable as the drugs that whisper sweet nothings in his ear.
Confronted with two choices, Hazel must choose; save her husband or save herself. It’s a near impossible decision. Will she make the right choice?
Hazel is as blissful as one can be. After ten years of sublime marriage, her and Bridger still find themselves curled up in the sheets, panting like dogs in heat. Their marriage is one other couples either envy or aspire towards.
Life can’t get any better, but it can get worse. Insurmountably worse.
Hazel’s world is splintered when she finds out Bridger’s demons swirl in a small, glass pipe. They fill his lungs and his mind with empty promises of escape and happiness.
Truths are revealed and secret lives are brought to the surface as Hazel finds herself in the fight for Bridger’s life. She has to quickly learn to navigate life with a man she doesn’t recognize anymore and whose every move is controlled by the need to escape his past.
Even with the help of Mags and Sage along the way, no one can anticipate Bridger’s next move. He’s as unpredictable as the drugs that whisper sweet nothings in his ear.
Confronted with two choices, Hazel must choose; save her husband or save herself. It’s a near impossible decision. Will she make the right choice?
318 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 6, 2020
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March 8, 2020
I struggled to get to the end of this book.
This was a book of many issues the main one being the husband and wife being in a 10-year marriage and she has no inkling that he is addicted to heroin, cocaine and anything else.
The book needs proofreading because the author couldn't make up her mind whether heroin was spelt with an e or not. Several parts refer to his addiction as heroine!
There were aspects of the story that was good but I found it very hard to accept that you can be in love with someone and married to him but get no inkling he was a drug addict, a serious one.
The ending was unsatisfactory. It just ended. It needed more development to get to where she needed to be.
The title was accurate and explained their relationship pretty well. Don't go into this one expecting a romance. You won't get it.
Not for me.
This was a book of many issues the main one being the husband and wife being in a 10-year marriage and she has no inkling that he is addicted to heroin, cocaine and anything else.
The book needs proofreading because the author couldn't make up her mind whether heroin was spelt with an e or not. Several parts refer to his addiction as heroine!
There were aspects of the story that was good but I found it very hard to accept that you can be in love with someone and married to him but get no inkling he was a drug addict, a serious one.
The ending was unsatisfactory. It just ended. It needed more development to get to where she needed to be.
The title was accurate and explained their relationship pretty well. Don't go into this one expecting a romance. You won't get it.
Not for me.
March 1, 2020
I struggled to get into this one. I was over 50% in before it caught my attention enough for me to spend more than a few minutes at a time reading. Where it was good it was really good but then the ending left me completely unsatisfied. I do believe this was written with true insight to the subject of addiction and how it affects anyone it touches but for me it felt unfinished. It hinted at a storyline involving Hazel and Jerusalem but completely abandoned it along with that of Sage and Aesir. I get that it wasn't supposed to be a romance but the segue into those stories left me wanting more.
September 22, 2020
Not a romance. Instead a wife’s story on rebuilding. Not even rebuilding. Restarting. I loved watching her restructure the important relationships in her life, draw her line in the sand, and find the ways to pick up the pieces.
What I had a problem with. Hazel being so completely blind that she didn’t notice her husband of a DECADE managed to form an addiction and keep it under wraps? And then as soon as his issue is found, his spiral was more of a plummeting asteroid headed straight for Earth.
Hazel herself. She didn’t want her business spread across town but walked around, victimizing herself. There was a good bit of woe is me. (Not saying it’s unrealistic. Was a bit overwhelming.)
Bridger as a whole. He literally went Jekyll & Hyde on the wife he was madly in love with at the beginning of the story.
Basically, it’s like this. I wanted a chocolate bar. All that was on the shelf was licorice. I didn’t love it. But it was still candy.
What I had a problem with. Hazel being so completely blind that she didn’t notice her husband of a DECADE managed to form an addiction and keep it under wraps? And then as soon as his issue is found, his spiral was more of a plummeting asteroid headed straight for Earth.
Hazel herself. She didn’t want her business spread across town but walked around, victimizing herself. There was a good bit of woe is me. (Not saying it’s unrealistic. Was a bit overwhelming.)
Bridger as a whole. He literally went Jekyll & Hyde on the wife he was madly in love with at the beginning of the story.
Basically, it’s like this. I wanted a chocolate bar. All that was on the shelf was licorice. I didn’t love it. But it was still candy.
April 25, 2020
What a emotional raw read. As Hazel discovers a secret about her husband her life is turned upside down. As Hazel and Bridger try to work through his problem it gets gritty, dangerous and emotional.
The characters in this book were real. You could feel the pain of each one of them. There were plenty of moments that I said a few choice words to Hazel and Bridger. There were some twists that I did not see coming. I will also say that the secondary characters were great.
This is an emotional, raw, realist, heartbreaking read. The ending was not what I expected but did prove that Hazel was where she wanted to be.
The characters in this book were real. You could feel the pain of each one of them. There were plenty of moments that I said a few choice words to Hazel and Bridger. There were some twists that I did not see coming. I will also say that the secondary characters were great.
This is an emotional, raw, realist, heartbreaking read. The ending was not what I expected but did prove that Hazel was where she wanted to be.
June 24, 2020
Just wow!
So I put off reading this for awhile, as I was once in hazel’s shoes. I wasn’t sure I could relive the anxiety,heartbreak and pain all over again, I was right..this book hit spot in to all the emotions I felt while going through my husband’s addiction for over 2yrs ( I didn’t realize he had a problem until a year after we had married) I am blessed to report that we did make it through and he’s been clean for over 14yrs. But it took us to go through hell and back to get where we are now(16years of marriage). In a lot of ways it was like reading our story play out. Very well done!
So I put off reading this for awhile, as I was once in hazel’s shoes. I wasn’t sure I could relive the anxiety,heartbreak and pain all over again, I was right..this book hit spot in to all the emotions I felt while going through my husband’s addiction for over 2yrs ( I didn’t realize he had a problem until a year after we had married) I am blessed to report that we did make it through and he’s been clean for over 14yrs. But it took us to go through hell and back to get where we are now(16years of marriage). In a lot of ways it was like reading our story play out. Very well done!
February 5, 2020
I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to read an ARC of this book.
I found myself drawn in from the first page. Addiction and it's side effects aren't something I think about often. Dope Sick Love gave me a perspective I likely would never have if I hadn't read it. Which is one of the things I love most about reading. The writing was very visual and kept me turning pages until the end.
I found myself drawn in from the first page. Addiction and it's side effects aren't something I think about often. Dope Sick Love gave me a perspective I likely would never have if I hadn't read it. Which is one of the things I love most about reading. The writing was very visual and kept me turning pages until the end.
March 10, 2020
This book was a total struggle the only happiness in this book came from Mags. The book just started and ended. I really wanted something more from the ending to tie the book together after enduring 4 hours of reading all of the heartache in the book.
April 27, 2020
COULD HAVE BEEN A 5 STAR!
I thought the story was very good. I loved the side characters! I was very disappointed in the ending. It way to abrupt for the situation. I'll say no more because I don't want to give any of the story away.
I thought the story was very good. I loved the side characters! I was very disappointed in the ending. It way to abrupt for the situation. I'll say no more because I don't want to give any of the story away.
July 7, 2020
This was a good book. I know someone who was married to a substance abuser. This book brought more details of a substance abuser to me.
I hope those who read it will understand it and be able to get a substance abuser in the right hands to save their life.
I hope those who read it will understand it and be able to get a substance abuser in the right hands to save their life.
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