ARC REVIEW ➼ WHILE I WAS AWAY BY STYLO FANTOME

You were in a car accident.

They say true love can last forever.

You hit your head, which caused your brain to swell.

Can span any distance, stretch across time, last beyond death.

The pressure against your skull damaged your brain.

Which leads one to wonder …

The damage left you unresponsive to most kinds of stimuli.

If you fall in love in your dreams,

And this unresponsive state is what's known as a coma.

Can you find that love when you wake up?

WHILE I WAS AWAY: 

Is a full length standalone romance novel by Stylo Fantome. 

Spoken in multiple POVs

Whilst at a co-workers birthday party, Adele Reins and her long term boyfriend Charlie Kassen end their three year relationship amicably both realising how stagnant it had become. 

Driving home that very night they are in a car accident leaving her in comatose state in hospital, her family is beyond themselves, especially her brothers (River, Ocean, and August) who berate themselves that they didn’t make more time for their little sister. 

Not knowing if and what condition she will be in when and if she wakes up has brought her whole family back home and has made them re-evaluate their lives and which direction they are going in. 

While I was away flits faultlessly between fantasy and reality until they merge seamlessly into one.

It's whilst Adele is in a coma that she's transported into another world that touches on her memories, going as far back as her childhood home, but it's also during this time where she makes a otherworldly connection, or so it seemed.She was stuck in purgatory with a man she'd never met before; a man whom she was pretty sure was her soulmate. 

This was one of my most highly anticipated reads of March so I beyond excited when this landed on my kindle. This was nothing like I expected it would be, mystically unique, it made me believe in soul mates, I was pulled into the story line as soon as I started, once I’d started it was easy to 

inhale.

COMING SOON

Crazy woman from a remote location in Alaska (where the need for a creative mind is a necessity!), I have been writing since ... forever? Yeah, that sounds about right. I have been told that I remind people of Lucille Ball - I also see shades of Jennifer Saunders, and Denis Leary. So basically, I laugh a lot, I'm clumsy a lot, and I say the F-word A LOT.

I like dogs more than I like most people, and I don't trust anyone who doesn't drink. No, I do not live in an igloo, and no, the sun does not set for six months out of the year, there's your Alaska lesson for the day. I have mermaid hair - both a curse and a blessing - and most of the time I talk so fast, even I can't understand me.

Yeah. I think that about sums me up.