'Provocative, seductive, and skillfully written, Black Iris is a story that stands out from the crowd.' 'Intense and visceral, Black Iris is as sharp as a knife and beats with a heart that is double-edged and dangerous.' Black Iris is one of the best books I’ve read this year.' Raeder’s gorgeous prose and raw characters will keep you flipping to the very end.

There aren’t enough words to describe this suspenseful powerhouse of a novel. Heart-breaking, captivating, and sensual. 'Not for the faint of heart…gritty, intense, and lyrical…Raeder’s compelling and unnerving dysfunctional love story is about revenge and survival.” This is an exhilarating ride for our inner underdog, craving a taste of what it would feel like to just get back at everyone if we were reckless enough not to care about the consequences.' Major themes include depression, mania, and the ways that the use and abuse of drugs affect access to the reality of self and the world's essential nature but the soul-searching always comes in the context of action,everyone around hit by the shrapnel of exploding feelings. 'Like an afternoon special on bullying gone impossibly dark, Raeder's dizzyingly intense, drug-addicted queer teenage revenge fantasy takes its reader on a sexy, bloody journey of pure emotion.A twisting timeline dancing over a year's events makes every moment seem both immediate and angrily steeped in memory.

And Laney is going to show them just how true. When a ghost from her past resurfaces-the bully who broke her down completely-she decides it’s time to live up to her own legend. She’s not looking for new friends, but they find her: charming, handsome Armin, the only guy patient enough to work through her thorny defenses-and fiery, filterless Blythe, the bad girl and partner in crime who has thorns of her own.īut Laney knows nothing good ever lasts. College is her chance to start with a clean slate. If Laney could erase that whole year, she would. Mentally ill, messed up, so messed up even her own mother decided she wasn’t worth sticking around for. It only took one moment of weakness for Laney Keating’s world to fall apart. Pierce, bestselling author of the Night Owl trilogy), and called “one of the best forbidden romances” (Lauren Blakely, New York Times bestselling author).

The next dark and sexy romantic suspense novel from the USA TODAY bestselling author of Unteachable, praised for its “lush, haunting prose, deft storytelling, and scorching sensuality” (M.

Black iris by leah raeder