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Shattered Pearl: A Taming the Twisted Novella Kindle Edition

by Jodie Toohey (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Pearl should be happy. She just married the love of her life, Lester Sinkey, and is ready to assume the role of wife and mother she’d dreamed about since she was a little girl. There’s just one thing standing in her way. Every time she and Lester try to consummate, Pearl feels a searing pain like she’s being sliced open with the clamming knives her family uses camping along the Mississippi River every summer. Disturbing memories of her great uncle, Mason, a veteran of the war between the states, soon resurface, and she fears something more sinister her mind is preventing her from recalling happened to her. Deciding it’s the only way, Pearl gets herself committed to the insane asylum where Mason had also been a patient, a dire mistake…

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August 29, 2019
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The main character is Abigail Sinkey, daughter of Harold and Josephine Sinkey. She has a younger sister, Alice, and toddler twin brothers, Samuel and David.	The main character is Alice Sinkey, Abigail Sinkey's younger sister. She is younger twin brothers, Samuel and David.	The main character is Pearl Sinkey. She is married to Lester Sinkey who is the son of David Sinkey and his wife, Caroline.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07X7ZSD3Q
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wordsy Woman Press (August 29, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 29, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1431 KB
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 212 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1733623620

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Jodie Toohey

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Jodie Toohey earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Iowa State University with Honors and Distinction with the focus of her honors program being creative writing. She has written as a hobby for over thirty years including poetry, essays, fiction, humor, and non-fiction. In February 2012, Toohey won first place in the Bettendorf Public Library's Love Poem Contest for her poem "Out of the Blue." "The Other Side of Crazy," a poetry collection including this poem was released by the 918Studio publishing company in September 2013. One of her other poetry books, "Crush and Other Love Poems for Girls," was published in 2008 with a second edition published in 2015. She published "Versed in Nature: Hiking Northwest Illinois and East Iowa State Parks" in 2017. Jodie also has four novels: "Missing Emily: Croatian Life Letters" released in 2012 (2nd edition, 2015), "Melody Madson - May It Please the Court?" released in 2014, "Taming the Twisted" released in 2015 (2nd edition, 2018), and "Taming the Twisted 2 Reconstructing Rain" released in 2018. Her next novel, "Shattered Pearl," will be published in late 2019. When she is not writing poetry or fiction, Jodie helps authors, soon-to-be-authors, and want-to-be authors from pre-idea through the reader with craft advice, editing/proofreading services, and book marketing planning services through her Wordsy Woman Author Services company. She lives in Iowa near the Mississippi River with her family.

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Mississippi Musings and Another Home Run

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2019

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I’ve been a fan of Jodie’s since her Melody Madson days (if you haven’t read May It Please The Court, get on it!) and this was yet another page-turner as I’ve come to expect from this author. I live in the Midwest, right on the Mississippi, so to get to not only see the characters’ worlds through Jodie’s descriptive storytelling, but also because I’ve been here, well, that just added to my experience. This is a quick and gratifying read and yet another awesome addition to a library of work by a Midwest author you need to read.

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Very real

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2020

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The story was only too real. Having worked this industry, & studied its history, this is about a very sad time in womens history. Imagine being committed to an asylum simply because your husband said so, or because you dared to speak up. Then never being allowed to leave & subjected to all manner of torture. Terribly sad but only so true.

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2019

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Loved this novel. While I was happy with the conclusion, I hated to have finished the book. Very relevant story even more than a century later.

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2019

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I chose two stars because pearls come from oysters not clams. Also the maritial sex part was unbelievable. The whole story sounded as tho it was written by an amateur.

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2019

My favorite book by this author! Hard to put down. Kept you guessing.

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Easy read

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2019