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Vanessa Evetts is a passionate and adventurous novelist from NZ. She's real-talker who's not afraid of the 'ugly bits' and is willing to have difficult conversations and broach taboo topics both on the page and in real life with love and understanding.
She was introduced to the profound power of fiction books to infiltrate the dark places and reach reader's hearts in stealth mode in her teen and early years of marriage reading Francine Rivers and Bryce Courtenay. She is passionate about creating books that will inspire, uplift and encourage women to life full, passionate and joy-filled lives post trauma and tragedy. Her books are gritty, raw, and heart-wrenching at times, they are also full of suspense, romance, adventure and hope.
If you like books that grab you by the heart on page one and refuse to let go, these titles are for you.
Reviewed by Jose Cornelio for Readers' Favorite
Then She Roars by Vanessa Evetts is a wonderful story that explores emotions of pain and joy, of hope and despair. Avery Bishop has an enviable job, a great body, and a very good life. That is until a routine checkup offers disturbing revelations: She has cancer! It is a bomb that is about to tear her life apart. The prospects of survival are slim and the treatment plan available for her can only keep her alive. But meeting Harry presents a new dilemma. He is the perfect man, the dream man, and he is everything she’s ever wanted in a man. Is it too late for her to love? What can she get with four days of freedom and can she find hope in following her heart’s deepest longing? When everything seems bleak and hopeless, it is then that Avery roars, and her life takes on a new meaning as she lives it, every moment of it, to the fullest.
I was pulled in by the title and I liked the blurb, but I wasn’t expecting so much entertainment. Then She Roars is real and filled with a message of hope. The writing is impeccable and insightful and Vanessa Evetts allows readers to see life from the perspective of someone facing love and death. There is no way a reader with a heart can’t love the characters and the support that Avery gets when she learns about her situation. I also enjoyed how the thought that illness isn’t the end of life is communicated. There are some experiences we live just once, and the prospect of finding the one thing one has always wanted when one knows that death looms ahead is unnerving. The author captures the emotions of the protagonist with such grace, skill, and vividness that I found myself feeling for her. Then She Roars is a page-turner, an engrossing read that will resonate in the hearts of many readers.
