Lily
of the Valley
Book Info:
Title: Lily of the Valley
(Flowering, #1.5)
Author: Sarah Daltry
Blurb:
18+ New Adult romance
You met them in Forget Me
Not. Now, hear Jack’s story.
Plagued by a dark past, Jack sees college as a way out. Desperate
to escape the area where he grew up, the people who know his secrets, and his
own family, he deals with his problems through alcohol and sex.
When he first sees Lily, she’s the epitome of everything he hates.
Yet something about her makes Jack rethink everything he knows and assumes
about other people. Now, with the help of his best friend and lover, Jack has
to decide if he wants to pursue something that he knows will only end badly.
Can Lily be one of the few people who can see Jack for who he
really is – or will his darkness be too much for her to handle?
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“Big parties last night?”
“Huge party. I spent the night reading
Dostoevsky.”
“He a scientist?” Mal flips over the
largest slab of ham I have ever seen. For all the sort of dive element of this
place, the food is still fucking great.
“Yeah, something like that.”
“Eh. Never cared for all that mumbo
jumbo. Don’t know any of it and I’m doing just fine.”
That’s something else I admire about
Mal. By no one’s standards is he doing just fine. He has a tendency to fall off
the wagon as soon as he approaches his ten month anniversary – which he has
been doing for likely longer than I have been alive. He’s been married and
divorced five times. He has three kids who don’t speak to him. Finally, he only
eats the food from the café and he lives in a motel out by the prison. Oh – and
he works as a short order cook in a shitty café. But in his mind, life is just
fine. Sometimes, I think I need to get a hold of whatever it is that keeps him
from losing his shit.
We settle into our routine, since there
is little Mal and I can talk about. I can’t discuss Raskolnikov’s character
traits and Mal simply has nothing to say. So we cook in silence, but it’s
comfortable. After everything I have been through, I feel a strange affinity
for this place. Even thinking about leaving when I eventually get the hell out
of town makes me a little sad. I hate that it makes me sad. I want to leave
with no connections, with no strings.
I go to stick an order on the counter
for Liz when I see her. Strawberries. She’s with some dude, who is basically
what I pictured when she mentioned her boyfriend. Broad, tan, blond, and eating
like a fucking pig. I don’t know what they’re talking about and I can’t see her
face, but he loves her. It’s immediately recognizable and I hate him for it. I
don’t even know why I hate him for it, since at least maybe he’s not as much of
a dick as I would have expected. If we had been placing bets, I would have gone
with the safe assumption he had something else on the side to make up for
having such a sweet and pure girlfriend. I wonder if maybe she isn’t as
innocent as she looks. The thought makes me horny again. I don’t get what is so
damn attractive about this typical girl, but something makes me want to taste
every inch of her skin.
Dream Cast:
About The Author:
Sarah Daltry writes erotica and romance that ranges from sweet to steamy. She moves around a lot and has trouble committing to things. Lily of the Valley is her third full length novel, although she also has several story collections and two novellas available. Her other novels are Forget Me Not, the story that tells Lily’s version of events, and Bitter Fruits, which was available shortly, but is now in the contract phase with a major publisher. When Sarah isn’t writing, she tends to waste a lot of time checking Facebook for pictures of cats, shooting virtual zombies, and simply staring out the window.
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Top Ten:
Author’s Favorite Video Games:
1. Borderlands 1 and 2
2. Fallout 3
3. Persona series
4. Silent Hill series
5. Final Fantasy series
6. Skyrim
7. Dragon Age series
8. Mass Effect series
9. Fable series
10. Bioshock series
11. Magic: The Gathering
12. Perfect Dark
13. Heavy Rain
14. LA Noire
15. Catherine
16. Zuma
Author’s Favorite Bad Boys:
1. Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights
2. Jake Barnes from The Sun Also Rises
3. Will from Infernal Devices
4. Lord Byron
5. The Scarecrow in Batman Begins
6. Lucifer from Supernatural
7. Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice
8. James Dean
9. Damon from Vampire Diaries
10. V from V for Vendetta
Interview with Sarah:
- What inspired you to write your book?
I had written a short story about
Derek and Lily and their first time called “Her Brother’s Best Friend.” It was
just supposed to be a short erotic story. But it sold well, so I thought about
writing more about the two of them. However, as I started writing Forget Me Not, the story would not work
for me. Until I found Jack. And then the novel was over and there was just so
much more to his story, so Lily of the
Valley was born.
- How did you come up with the title?
Forget
Me Not and Lily of the Valley are
both flowers, and the series is called Flowering.
The reason is that it is about love, sexuality, and growing up – sort of
blossoming into the person you will be. Forget
Me Not also addresses the idea of leaving your life behind and moving on. And
Lily is the main female character, so hence Lily
of the Valley.
- Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
People are complicated, as are
relationships. The things we think we want sometimes turn out not to be what we
want. In addition, the people we think we understand may surprise us. We can’t
assume anything about love or each other. They are too complex.
- What books have most influenced your life most?
The
Catcher in the Rye, because it was the first time I understood that other
people felt like me and it also said it was okay to be different. And The Sun Also Rises, because there can be
beauty in suffering.
- If you had to choose, which writer would you consider a mentor?
Hemingway. I know he’s dead, but he
knew how to write true.
- What are your current projects?
I am writing Scandal, a contemporary romance about a teacher and an actor who
find each other after they are both ruined by rumors, and I am waiting to
release Bitter Fruits, a New Adult
paranormal/urban fantasy romance in
December through the publisher. I am also working on Immortal Star, the second book in that series.
- What was the hardest part of writing your book?
Jack’s experiences and emotions are
really closely tied to my own and it was hard to write some of his scenes.
- If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role as you?
- If you had six months with no
obligations or financial constraints, what would you do with the time?
- What kind of people do you
dislike?
Anyone
who is cruel to other people or creatures. People who assume their own reality
is the only reality. And people who don’t read.
Playlist:
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Review:
I was given books for honest
review. Enjoyed Forget Me Not and Lily of the Valley. It’s not often you get
basically the same story from two different points of view and have them match
almost to a “T”, but be unique at the same time. Sarah Daltry manages it quiet
well. Fell in love with all the characters but have to admit that favorite my is Jack.
He grabs you with his sincerity and self-image almost from the start. It was
amazing to watch him grow.
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