Title: Another New Life
Author: Sydney Aaliyah Michelle
New Adult Contemporary Romance
**This book contains adult subject matter. Not intended for young readers.**
 
Miranda Preston is a walking contradiction. Beautiful on the outside, but, insecure, haunted and damaged on the inside. Despite these contradictions, she’s ready to start Another New Life.
 
When her talent wins her a piano scholarship to the University of Texas at Austin, Miranda arrives on campus determined to experience everything college has to offer and to keep her secrets in the past where they belong.
An easy task, until the first guy who catches her eye happens to be someone, she’s known all her life.
 
Eight years have passed since the last time Miranda and Troy saw each other. He reminds her of the best and worst times of her life, but she can’t think about one without dwelling on the other. As they grow closer, every day their attraction reminds them they are no longer kids.
 
The epic romantic love story that is Miranda and Troy seems to be destined for a happy ending, but Miranda knows it’s only a matter of time before her secret is discovered. A secret that will not only destroy their relationship, it will destroy Troy, too.
 
Can Miranda focus on her future with Troy while preventing her past from tearing them apart all over again?
 
My Review
FIVE “IVE TOTALLY SOBBED MY HEART OUT” STARS!
Tissues at the ready!This has been one heck of an emotional roller-coaster of a read and I’m still reeling after finishing it yesterday! This is a beautiful love story that takes place eight years after the main characters, Miranda and Troy, were ripped apart by a heartbreaking situation. Childhood best friends who reunite and fall in love by chance when they attend college together are ripped apart again by a history that one is unaware of.

The emotions I have gone through when reading their beautiful story has had me in knots the entire way through this book and I will admit to have shed a lot of tears too! Some scenes in this story had my heart in my mouth and for anyone with a nervous disposition or anyone who may be sensitive to triggers for abuse, there are some pretty descriptive flashbacks in the book but please do not let this put you off!

Troy is a gorgeous character and at times you really feel for him and his conflicts and although his behaviour in one key situation had me totally reeling, you still cannot help but empathise with him in the end.

Miranda is also a refreshing female lead character and of the first time in a while she was a female lead that didn’t annoy me at all. Yes, she has a secret and I firmly believe that she acts throughout the story as she believes she should. Without spoiling the story she realises she is different and never hides this fact. She isn’t whiny, she doesn’t run away from things every five minutes but she is also incapable of knowing how to deal with her history.

This is a truly amazing tale of self discovery and coming of age and I would highly recommend this but be warned a comfy cushion to hug and a box of tissues are needed before you start!

Five heartbroken stars!
 
About The Author
 

 

Sydney Aaliyah Michelle is a New Adult Contemporary Romance writer, a voracious reader and movie fanatic who

Sydney has been blogging at sydneyaaliyah.com for three years, where she interviews people about their tattoos, discusses her favorite movie quotes, reviews books (New Adult & only the ones she loves) and journals about her writing and editing process.hailsfrom Texas. After surviving 5 1/2 years living in China, she had the courage to finally pursue her passion and become a writer.

Sydney’s self-published debut New Adult Novel Another New Life will be available June 2014. An active tweeter, she is also a JuNoWriMo (2x) and NaNoWriMo (2x) winners who notes the sci-fi action flick “The Matrix” as the best representation of her life in the past. She is blessed to be awake now and doing what she loves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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