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Scarred For Life:
Dane Wolfe is a loner. Forsaken by her family and betrayed by people close to her, she has lost all faith in people and spends her days wandering the streets with no direction or meaning. She drifts through life, existing and nothing more. Nicole Cardell is a successful, attorney. She has too much faith in people and is being taken advantage of by her boyfriend, Tyler, Dane's cousin. She's tired of his selfish ways and tosses him out. The bad relationship leaves her questioning her judgment. Circumstances bring Dane and Nicole together and a friendship brings them closer. They're able to heal each other and bring balance to each other's lives. Their peace is shattered when family causes trouble and tears them apart. Will they find their path back to each other and to the love that was slowly growing?
366 pages, Paperback
First published November 15, 2013
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About the author
S.L. Kassidy
12 books32 followersWhat is there to know about me? Not much. I was bred, born, and raised in New York and I have no desire to live anywhere else. One day, I would like to travel to a few places, but for now I am content where I am.
I started out writing poetry in junior high and continued to do so for ten years. I wrote short stories, usually fantasy and romance stories, for my own entertainment throughout high school and college. Back then, I wrote strictly for me and those stories remain locked in the back of my closet in little notebooks, written in my almost unreadable, tiny handwriting. In between writing those stories and poetry, I managed to get a college degree in history.
After graduating college, I had a semester off before graduate school and I didn't really have anything to do with my time. So, I took a chance and wrote a fan-fic and dared to upload it to the Internet. I was surprised that other people enjoyed my work and I've been posting ever since. I had quite a bit of fun with fan fiction and eventually decided to try my hand in original fiction. I suppose it was sort of like coming back around to what I had been doing in high school and college, except this time the stories were for whoever wanted to read them. I uploaded my first original story a few years ago and haven’t looked back. I plan to continue writing as long as I continue getting ideas for stories and it continues to be fun.
aka Shea K.
aka StarvingLunatic
I started out writing poetry in junior high and continued to do so for ten years. I wrote short stories, usually fantasy and romance stories, for my own entertainment throughout high school and college. Back then, I wrote strictly for me and those stories remain locked in the back of my closet in little notebooks, written in my almost unreadable, tiny handwriting. In between writing those stories and poetry, I managed to get a college degree in history.
After graduating college, I had a semester off before graduate school and I didn't really have anything to do with my time. So, I took a chance and wrote a fan-fic and dared to upload it to the Internet. I was surprised that other people enjoyed my work and I've been posting ever since. I had quite a bit of fun with fan fiction and eventually decided to try my hand in original fiction. I suppose it was sort of like coming back around to what I had been doing in high school and college, except this time the stories were for whoever wanted to read them. I uploaded my first original story a few years ago and haven’t looked back. I plan to continue writing as long as I continue getting ideas for stories and it continues to be fun.
aka Shea K.
aka StarvingLunatic
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October 22, 2016
I'd rate this at 3 1/2-stars, primarily for the originality of the premise. The romantic leads are both terrific in an opposites attract, rich girl/poor girl, kind-of-way, and their relationship begins from a very unusual place: Danny crashing on Nicole's couch without her knowledge. It's more complicated than that, but there's a really unusual dynamic from the very beginning--Danny is just so broken that she's completely reliant upon Nicole, and Nicole feels driven to help her. It's very much a "caregiver healing the wounded" story, and, yeah, the writing was somewhat fanfictiony, but I liked the novelty of its presentation. The two characters are living together from the first chapter onward, which gives a lot of time for growth. And, I'll admit it, I love stories about broken characters finding love.
The side characters, unfortunately, are poorly defined, and four of the six antagonists (that's right, six!) are the same two-dimensional, egotistical bigots that show up in so many lesfic books; they're Senator Stuart and Kyle from Tropical Storm, they're Brody Cowen and Bill Larson from Backwards to Oregon, they're Ryan Holbrook from The Death Zone: Murder on Mount Everest. There are also large, heavy-handed chunks of text that tell the reader what to feel about the characters rather than providing details and letting the reader make up their own mind.
Despite the book's faults, though, I still feel it's well worth reading for anyone who enjoys romances. Danny and Nicole have really wonderful chemistry, and their relationship kept me reading even when I started to get frustrated with the above-mentioned faults.
The side characters, unfortunately, are poorly defined, and four of the six antagonists (that's right, six!) are the same two-dimensional, egotistical bigots that show up in so many lesfic books; they're Senator Stuart and Kyle from Tropical Storm, they're Brody Cowen and Bill Larson from Backwards to Oregon, they're Ryan Holbrook from The Death Zone: Murder on Mount Everest. There are also large, heavy-handed chunks of text that tell the reader what to feel about the characters rather than providing details and letting the reader make up their own mind.
Despite the book's faults, though, I still feel it's well worth reading for anyone who enjoys romances. Danny and Nicole have really wonderful chemistry, and their relationship kept me reading even when I started to get frustrated with the above-mentioned faults.
January 5, 2015
Tyler is a premium brand of filthy, arrogant, backstabbing, lying, scummy jerk-off/parasite/yuppie trash. *clears throat* Now that I got that out of the way.....
I wasn't supposed to read this yet because I have this list in my head that I follow (most of the time). This is one of those "the right book picks you" moments. This turned out to be a wonderful read.
Danielle "The Great Dane" (Danny to her Friends) Wolfe is a broken soul (I'm a sucker for the Broken) hidden behind a gruff and rough exterior
She is an outcast to her own family for being different and has been a target for all sorts of accusations and unfair judgement. She's not perfect and also doesn't have the most attractive past but she, at least, admits it. One night she ends up on a porch she thought was her cousin's to ask for a small favor.
Nicole "Nikki" (Nick to our Danny) Cardell is the kind-hearted corporate lawyer. Kind to the point of being a pushover. She takes pride in a job her parent shoved down her throat. She puts her job, parents and other people first and rarely (if at all) stood up for what she really wants. The same kindness makes her a magnet for scumbags. On the day she kicks a Wolfe out of her house, she finds herself faced with another one.
So began a story of two people who have been taken advantage of. From housemates to a sweet friendship filled with warmth, care and concern to something more than both of them thought they deserved or could have wished for. I still have residual warm fuzzies from all the tenderness between our leads. :D There's some drama and heart-wrenching scenes too.
I wasn't supposed to read this yet because I have this list in my head that I follow (most of the time). This is one of those "the right book picks you" moments. This turned out to be a wonderful read.
Danielle "The Great Dane" (Danny to her Friends) Wolfe is a broken soul (I'm a sucker for the Broken) hidden behind a gruff and rough exterior
She is an outcast to her own family for being different and has been a target for all sorts of accusations and unfair judgement. She's not perfect and also doesn't have the most attractive past but she, at least, admits it. One night she ends up on a porch she thought was her cousin's to ask for a small favor.
Nicole "Nikki" (Nick to our Danny) Cardell is the kind-hearted corporate lawyer. Kind to the point of being a pushover. She takes pride in a job her parent shoved down her throat. She puts her job, parents and other people first and rarely (if at all) stood up for what she really wants. The same kindness makes her a magnet for scumbags. On the day she kicks a Wolfe out of her house, she finds herself faced with another one.
So began a story of two people who have been taken advantage of. From housemates to a sweet friendship filled with warmth, care and concern to something more than both of them thought they deserved or could have wished for. I still have residual warm fuzzies from all the tenderness between our leads. :D There's some drama and heart-wrenching scenes too.
May 24, 2017
I'm always a bit skeptical about books by authors I've never heard of before. I'm glad I didn't let that keep me from reading this book. It's a great love story; I think I liked it so much because Nick and Dane are such an unlikely pair. Can two people who are so different really find a love like theirs? I sure hope so.
May 31, 2015
Worth your time to read
This book is definitely worth your time to read. I rarely post anything when rating books, cause am shy and all that so since I'm posting something about this story you can trust that it is a worthy read. It had me laughing, crying, angry and wet in the panties...lol. Now that I'm done posting I'm gonna go see what else our lil miss S.L. Kassidy has written and most likely buy it..lol Happy Ready Friends! ;)
This book is definitely worth your time to read. I rarely post anything when rating books, cause am shy and all that so since I'm posting something about this story you can trust that it is a worthy read. It had me laughing, crying, angry and wet in the panties...lol. Now that I'm done posting I'm gonna go see what else our lil miss S.L. Kassidy has written and most likely buy it..lol Happy Ready Friends! ;)
January 26, 2016
Poorly written. Got the book for the S-L-K January challenge, but probably wouldn't have if I'd known it was the story of a lesbian misfit, Dane, who is homeless and looking to stay with a cousin for a couple days. As it turns out, the cousin Tyler has moved into his girlfriend Nicole's home uninvited and she proceeds to kick him out while momentarily forgetting that Dane was still there. The story covers the development of the relationship between Dane and Nicole.
December 15, 2017
So I won a book over at this years Hootenanny at https://womenwords.org/ this year and picked book 4 of this series cause I missed it over this summer. I particularly loved this series so the choice was obvious. (And a little bird tells me book 5 is due next Jan, so that's way cool).
So it had been a few years since I originally read this so that makes a re read of the series just about mandatory. And since I was a terrible reviewer back then, all I did was ratings and never a review, so here I am fixing that.
Right. Some who know my reviews know I prefer fluff and unicorns farting rainbows. This is not that book. Dane is an intensely relatable character for me personally. She's flawed not only on the outside but the inside as well.
Nicole puts a homeless Dane up at her house after kicking Dane's absolute jackass of a cousin out. And the rest progresses from there without being spoilery. There are some hard times in their road throughout, no doubt about it. Dane's had a really tough go during her life.
But it's the start of a really great series featuring the same couple throughout. While not uncommon, I guess it sort of is. Usually series has spinoffs of secondary characters who get their own books. Not here. And it's great and I absolutely love it.
So it had been a few years since I originally read this so that makes a re read of the series just about mandatory. And since I was a terrible reviewer back then, all I did was ratings and never a review, so here I am fixing that.
Right. Some who know my reviews know I prefer fluff and unicorns farting rainbows. This is not that book. Dane is an intensely relatable character for me personally. She's flawed not only on the outside but the inside as well.
Nicole puts a homeless Dane up at her house after kicking Dane's absolute jackass of a cousin out. And the rest progresses from there without being spoilery. There are some hard times in their road throughout, no doubt about it. Dane's had a really tough go during her life.
But it's the start of a really great series featuring the same couple throughout. While not uncommon, I guess it sort of is. Usually series has spinoffs of secondary characters who get their own books. Not here. And it's great and I absolutely love it.
October 26, 2014
this book had real characters growing facing situations with responses so real.
i would lovefor their story to continue. but i loved the way this one ended. thank you for a brilliant book.
i would lovefor their story to continue. but i loved the way this one ended. thank you for a brilliant book.
January 30, 2020
There aren't many books that made me cry. But Scarred for Life did it anyway. S.L. Kassidy made sure you'll feel the pain. Cuts deep. Like cutting a new wound inside the old one. Just keeps going on. Genius!
June 16, 2019
Book one of a brilliant series
Well the title says it all really.Its a beautifully written complex love story which at times is very emotional but well worth a read
Well the title says it all really.Its a beautifully written complex love story which at times is very emotional but well worth a read
January 31, 2021
Amazing read captivating story
December 3, 2013
Something different but a very compelling story.
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