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Title: All the Pretty Roses: A Tale of Bittersweet Love and Betrayal
Author: Sarah Jane Heidelberg
Narrator: Jason Ilori
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-16-17
Publisher: Ophelia Brown Publishing
Genres: Drama & Poetry, Modern Drama
Publisher's Summary:
All the Pretty Roses is set in a Southern University with a popular poetic atmosphere, where everybody who so desires is allowed to pop their literary cherry and participate in the emergence of slam poetry readings in Mississippi, attend musical jam sessions, and attend special events that bring the promise of new love. You wonder if any studying takes place with all the excitement.
Mercedes, the embodiment of "Love," meets campus Romeo and hip poet, "Bitter," and their whirlwind affair leads to heartbreak as it dawns on him that he, a senior in college, is dating a mere freshman.
He takes all lengths to avoid this beauty, inadvertently opening the door for betrayal to move into his territory once he decides to give it a go. Life circumstances and a long talk with his homeboy leads to a bargain. This bargain leaves himself out of Love's life.
Betrayal, is a loyal friend who happens to have had his life saved by the egregious Bitter when they were younger. When Betrayal, the complete opposite of Bitter, finally makes his move and everything seems perfect, an unexpected event leaves both Bitter and Love feeling empty.
After Love forgoes all the glitterization of poetry and prose she once loved in college, a burst of energy to tell her story re-energizes her to write the story of a lifetime.
How is Bitter connected to her success, and will she find passion again after loss? Find out in All the Pretty Roses: A Tale of Bittersweet Love and Betrayal.
Told in simple, yet bold language, this storyline will allow you to exercise your imagination, your level of comprehension, and ability to envision it playing out in real life.
Members Reviews:
BitterSweet
âAll Pretty Rosesâ is a novel primarily for 9-12th graders, and for coming of age readers. Therefore, this is my first time reading such a genre "coming of age" for the millennials. However, in my opinion, there is a scene or wording that I am not quite sure is appropriate for this age group, but ultimately it is up to the readersâ digression and authorâs choice to place it in the novel.
Since I am not familiar with this genre and its style of writing, I had a difficult time completing this read. There were some areas I felt could have been elaborated on such as the ârapeâ since I was asking who, why, when, how, and what question(s) while reading the literature, then towards the end was mentioned again that re-triggered who actually violated Mercedes; also I did not fully connect as a reader to the love-experience between the couples.
Poetry was added to the novel, as a form of expression between Mercedes and Bitter. There was one poem that was simple, direct, and to-the-point about relationships that I greatly enjoyed on page 85/86 (eBook version). In my own train of thought, I wondered if the names: Love, Betrayal, and Bitter were all emotions or such emotions playing in Mercedesâ psyche when it came to relationships.