Silence Series by Natasha Preston Cover Reveal*

YOU GUYS! These covers are amazing! I love the watercolor aspect that flows through all of them, which you're all about to see. I just wanted to say hello first. I read these books a few years ago and fell in love with the characters. With the release of these new covers, I hope you all decide to also check out these stories if you haven't yet. Don't forget to come back and tell me what you think! 

Check out my reviews for the Silent Series here:

Silence | Broken Silence | Players, Bumps, & Cocktail Sausages | Silent Night

✰✯✰✰✯✰Silence Series Cover Reveal!✰✯✰✰✯✰
Natasha Preston’s much-loved Silence Series now has all new gorgeous covers! Check them out below. The first book ‘Silence’ is FREE and the second book ‘Broken Silence’ is on SALE for 0.99

✰✯Silence✯✰

Eleven years Oakley has been silent, hiding a truth that could rip her world apart.

Refusing to communicate beyond a few physical actions, Oakley remains in her own world. Cole is her only friend, he fights for her, protects her, but as they grow even closer together, their relationship gets put to the test.

When Oakley is forced to face someone from her past, can she hold her secret in any longer?

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✰✯Broken Silence✯✰
Four years after Oakley left England, she has to come home, forcing her to face the man she left behind.

With the trial looming, Oakley faces her biggest battle yet. Is she strong enough to find her voice and fight for the justice she’s desperate for?

Her love for Cole never faded, but she’s not sure he’ll be able to forgive her for leaving.

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✰✯Players, Bumps and Cocktail Sausages✯✰
Ex-playboy, Jasper, has hung up his little black book and is strictly a one-woman man.

Jasper is shocked when his new wife, Abby, no longer wants the family they’ve planned. She begins to work late and withdraw from their marriage, leaving Jasper questioning his decision to give her a second chance.

Holly starts working for Jasper, and as the two grow closer, he takes action, sparking a chain of events that makes his once well planned out life spiral out of control.

To get what he wants, he first has to lose everything.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

UK native Natasha Preston grew up in small villages and towns. She discovered her love of writing when she stumbled across an amateur writing site and uploaded her first story and hasn’t looked back since.

Natasha is the Author of...

THE SILENCE SERIES

Silence

Broken Silence

Players, Bumps and Cocktail Sausages

Silent Night

THE CHANCE SERIES

Second Chance

Our Chance

STAND-ALONES

Save Me

With the Band

Reliving Fate

Lie To Me

After The End

YOUNG ADULT THRILLERS

The Cellar

Awake

The Cabin

You Will Be Mine

The Lost


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Silent Night by Natasha Preston | Book Review

Reading Group: Anyone who's read the Silence series

Personal Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars

Synopses: Join Cole, Oakley and their family for Christmas day in this 7,000 word short story.

Cover: This cover shows Oakley and Cole embracing in what I am assuming is the last scene of the book.

My Review: This is a little extra story that just allows you to check in and know that Oakley and Cole are still going strong.  It's Christmas day and they're enjoying it with family.  Jasper is proposing to Holly, her mom and Miles are loving being grandparents, and Mia is still single, but happy.  Everything is good, but Oakley still knows that she has some more healing to do.  The end of Christmas comes with a surprise for Cole when Oakley tells him that she's pregnant with their third child.  It's such a happy little check-in story.

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Players, Bumps, and Cocktail Sausages by Natasha Preston | Book Review

Reading Group: Anyone's who's read the Silence Series

Personal Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars

Synopses: Putting his player ways behind him, Jasper Dane is now strictly a one-woman man. Jasper, desperate to start a family with his wife, Abby, is devastated when she puts their baby plans on hold. Holly has just arrived back in town for the summer, and after landing a job with Jasper, the two form an unlikely friendship. Abby’s immediate dislike of Holly and Jasper spending time together causes him to question his wife’s fidelity. Broken hearted at Abby’s sudden change of heart and suspicious of her reasons, Jasper takes action, sparking a chain of events that make his once well planned out life spiral out of control. To get what he wants, he first has to lose everything.

Cover: The cover of this book shows a very attractive man, Jasper, who is showing off his playboy ways. 

My Review: Just like Broken Silence, this story begins a few years after the one before it ended.  The biggest difference between this one and the other two books is that this one focuses on Jasper which is why it's a companion novel within the series.  Jasper was always close with Oakley when they were growing up, but he never knew about her abuse.  Now, almost ten years after finding it out he still blames himself for not being there to protect her.  He's married his first love, who cheated on him when they were teenagers, but is hoping this time will be better.  Sad for Jasper, this history repeated itself and now he's going through a divorce and is having a baby with his friend's sister.  He wants to be a great dad, but he is petrified of something happening to his child the way it happened to Oakley.  He's already had a repeat history with Abby, why couldn't it happen with his daughter?  But the way he's acting isn't healthy and once he realizes this he is able to admit that he needs some type of closure.  He agrees to see his dad and even though he doesn't get the answers he wants, Jasper is able to say what he wants and that's a step in the right direction for him.  He has a long way to go, as does everyone in his family, but he's finally taking care of himself and starting to ease his own guilt.

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Broken Silence by Natasha Preston | Book Review

Reading Group: Anyone who's read Silence

Personal Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars

Synopses: It has been four years since Oakley, her mum, and brother fled to Australia. With the trials looming, she makes the decision to return to England. Oakley is desperate for closure so she can put the past behind her and move on with her life. How will she cope when she comes face to face with the two people that hurt her the most, and the one person that she hurt the most? Her love for Cole never faded, but how will he react to her return after so long? Will they be able to put everything behind them in order to have a happy ending?

Cover: On this cover, you get to see some of Oakley's face as she's letting everyone into her world and revealing her secrets.  It appears that she is on a beach, which is where she would go for walks in Australia in order to have some time to herself.

My Review: I actually liked this book more than the first one and stayed up all night to read it in one sitting.  I liked it because she was letting people know what happened to her and she was finally giving the details that would give justice to her and anyone else affected by the abuses of her father and Frank.  Of course, this was incredibly difficult for Oakley, and she had her moments when she didn't know what exactly what the right thing to do was.  She decided that as long as she told the absolute truth, she would be able to find closure and hoped that the truth would be believed by the jury.
And of course, there was also the situation between her and Cole.  The two of them loved each other, but at first, it was as if they were trying to see if logistically it was worth the heartache to move their relationship back to what it was before Oakley left in case she left again.  Eventually, Cole is the one to come forward and decide he didn't care, he just wanted to be with Oakley.  By the end of the story, Oakley is finally able to take a deep breath and be happy with everything in her life for the first time ever.  She has no trials looming over her or no reason to wonder what the love of her life was doing, she was happy, and it was entirely deserved.
I think the reason I couldn't but this story away until the very end was because at the beginning I was wondering when they would get back together and then once they did the story turned toward the trial and I wanted to know how that was going to turn out.  There was a lot of events going on in Oakley's life that were all happening at once, and I couldn't go to bed without knowing the answers to everything.

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Silence by Natasha Preston | Book Review

Reading Group: Sensitive Material 

Personal Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars

Synopses: For eleven years, Oakley Farrell has been silent. At the age of five, she stopped talking, and no one seems to know why. Refusing to communicate beyond a few physical actions, Oakley remains in her own little world. Bullied at school, she has just one friend, Cole Benson. Cole stands by her, refusing to believe that she is not perfect the way she is. Over the years, they have developed their own version of a normal friendship. However, will it still work as they start to grow even closer? When Oakley is forced to face someone from her past, can she hold her secret in any longer?

Cover: This cover shows Oakley facing away from the reader.  I think this is symbolic of how she is really only allowing the world to know half of who she is since she decided to stop talking.

My Review: I got this book free from iBooks, and I really enjoyed it because I thought it was an interesting and important theme about a possible side effect of abuse as a young child.  Oakley was abused by her father's friend and then told that no one would believe her if she said anything, so she stopped talking altogether.  During the book, she's growing up, and she and her best friend Cole start dating, but towards the end, she comes face to face with her abuser again and finally speaks up for herself.  The thing I really didn't like about this book was that you never actually saw her come face to face with Frank.  I liked that Oakley talking came from Cole's point of view because I thought his reaction to his phone ringing and hearing the ringtone was important, but I thought there should have been a chapter before that showing Oakley with her dad and how Frank showed up and how she ran away from them.  I think that would have been an essential scene in the story because it was what finally drove Oakley to call Cole and talk to him after eleven years of not speaking.  To me, it just felt that the whole book was leading up to that moment and then it never really came.  I wanted to know what was going through Oakley's head and what it felt like to speak again.  But other than that I enjoyed the story.  Not talking was how Oakley coped with what happened to her and even though she could never forget the events she was still able to have a normal relationship with Cole and her brother at least.  It made me sad that she didn't think anyone would believe her if she told the truth, but I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who can relate to not speaking out because someone with more authority told them it was a waste of time.  And especially for Oakley, that person was her father, who was supposed to be someone she could depend on to protect her.

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