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Fearless
Priv·i·lege: having special rights, or immunities. Societal and social advantage.
For Riley McLeon, ignorance is bliss. As the daughter of a single cop with a history of shooting first and asking questions later, she’s grown up sheltered. He taught her everything she knows about life, love, guns, and the world as he sees it. And all he ever asked from her was a promise: she would never date a man of color.
Ra·cist: a person who shows or feels discrimination, prejudice, or antagonism against people of other races, or who believes that one’s own race is superior.
Lincoln Sanders knows all too well about the skin deep judgments people make. He knows what it is to lose everything, to be haunted by the impossible. He knows pain. He knows hate. And he definitely knows trouble when he sees it.
Chance: to take a risk. A possibility of something happening.
Silence comes easily when the whole world is against you, and being together is an act of bravery neither Lincoln or Riley think they're capable of. Loving each other feels like coming back to life, but you can’t move forward if you’re living in the past.
When you unlearn everything you've ever known, you can become fearless.
For Riley McLeon, ignorance is bliss. As the daughter of a single cop with a history of shooting first and asking questions later, she’s grown up sheltered. He taught her everything she knows about life, love, guns, and the world as he sees it. And all he ever asked from her was a promise: she would never date a man of color.
Ra·cist: a person who shows or feels discrimination, prejudice, or antagonism against people of other races, or who believes that one’s own race is superior.
Lincoln Sanders knows all too well about the skin deep judgments people make. He knows what it is to lose everything, to be haunted by the impossible. He knows pain. He knows hate. And he definitely knows trouble when he sees it.
Chance: to take a risk. A possibility of something happening.
Silence comes easily when the whole world is against you, and being together is an act of bravery neither Lincoln or Riley think they're capable of. Loving each other feels like coming back to life, but you can’t move forward if you’re living in the past.
When you unlearn everything you've ever known, you can become fearless.
259 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 24, 2019
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About the author
Allana Kephart
19 books95 followersAllana Kephart has been making things up and bending people to her will from a very young age. She loves animals, tattoos, music, laughing, and reading. She spends an obscene amount of time finding pretty new words and thinking up awful ways to torment her characters.
When not writing, she can be found walking one of her many furbabies, making havoc with her credit union work buddies, or jamming out in her car to Broadway musical soundtracks. She lives in the beautiful state of Colorado with fur-babies.
When not writing, she can be found walking one of her many furbabies, making havoc with her credit union work buddies, or jamming out in her car to Broadway musical soundtracks. She lives in the beautiful state of Colorado with fur-babies.
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October 8, 2019
4 Cranky Stars
This is a very difficult subject to write about, but the author pulled it of nicely. The subject is racism.
The main female character is white and been brought up by her racist police officer father, She hadn't realised that he was being racist and led a very sheltered life. Until the day she went to a party with her friends, going against all that her father had said. She didn't really want to be there and stood by a wall as her friends went off to dance. It wasn't long before she caught the eye of a black boy. He stood with her talking and there was an instant attraction between them. Her friends tried to drag her away from him, but she always ended back with him. They left the party and chatted the rest of the evening away. She couldn't understand her father's belief about the black community, The inevitable happens and they fall in love, and she tries to keep him her secret.
In his line of duty he shot a fifteen year old black youth joyriding in his mothers car, saying he saw him reach for what looked like a gun. This stirred up a lot of trouble in the black community. The story proceeds to tell the amount of racism there was.
I didn't think I was going to like this book because of the racism, but I persevered with it and then finding that I was actually enjoying the book. A very brave author to tackle such a delicate story line.
This is a very difficult subject to write about, but the author pulled it of nicely. The subject is racism.
The main female character is white and been brought up by her racist police officer father, She hadn't realised that he was being racist and led a very sheltered life. Until the day she went to a party with her friends, going against all that her father had said. She didn't really want to be there and stood by a wall as her friends went off to dance. It wasn't long before she caught the eye of a black boy. He stood with her talking and there was an instant attraction between them. Her friends tried to drag her away from him, but she always ended back with him. They left the party and chatted the rest of the evening away. She couldn't understand her father's belief about the black community, The inevitable happens and they fall in love, and she tries to keep him her secret.
In his line of duty he shot a fifteen year old black youth joyriding in his mothers car, saying he saw him reach for what looked like a gun. This stirred up a lot of trouble in the black community. The story proceeds to tell the amount of racism there was.
I didn't think I was going to like this book because of the racism, but I persevered with it and then finding that I was actually enjoying the book. A very brave author to tackle such a delicate story line.
September 7, 2019
Amazing. Breathtaking. Gutting. Heartbreaking. Gorgeous. Full review to follow.
March 6, 2020
I was not prepared for how violently I'd be submerged in to the world of this book. It is not easy subject matter, but this author pulled it off brilliantly.
Lincoln and Riley are an incredible pair. Yin and Yang, they complete one another perfectly. Their world is ugly, messy and REAL. This is one hell of an adventure, so if you choose to take it - buckle up. The feels are big!
Just tremendous, can't wait to see what else this author can do!
Lincoln and Riley are an incredible pair. Yin and Yang, they complete one another perfectly. Their world is ugly, messy and REAL. This is one hell of an adventure, so if you choose to take it - buckle up. The feels are big!
Just tremendous, can't wait to see what else this author can do!
October 25, 2020
I have read some amazing books this year. Truly amazing books. And this one, Fearless, is by far my absolute favorite. It is so raw and so real. In this day and age, it is sickening how real the truths of this story are. Lincoln's and Riley's story moved me beyond words. The tragedy and realness of their tale made my heart throb. But mostly, I want to congratulate the fearlessness of Allana for writing such a brave story when most authors would not even dare to write those words.
March 26, 2020
This was a good quick read
March 25, 2020
The topic of racism is a difficult subject and this book does a good job navigating those waters. I loved seeing both sides from thr main characters point of view. I was enthralled by the story! Great job!
October 2, 2019
Riley McLeon father loves her very much and would do anything to keep her safe. He has taught her everything she knows. He has taught her about life, love, happiness, how to shoot a gun and he has taught her hate. He has taught her to hate anyone who is not like her.
Riley never quiet believed her dad when he was teaching her about hate but she kept that little secret to herself. Riley is the kind of person who doesn't go out looking for bad in people to her if the bad is there it will eventually show its self all on its own without any help from her.
One day Riley's friends talk her into going to a party that her dad would not approve of as they will be booze there. Riley is not into drinking for one thing she is only seventeen and her father is the chief of police. But against her better judgement she lets them talk her into going. After arriving at the party she falls into peer pressure and starts taking shots with her friends.
There is this one guy there who hits on Riley she tells him to keep his hands to himself and when he doesn't listen Riley tells this dude that she is not in to him and hits him. He tells her that he is into her and grabs her again Riley pulls back to hit him again when someone grabs her arm and tells the dude to lay off like the lady said.
Riley and Lincoln like each right off and find a place where they can spend some quiet time together and get to know each other better and the after the party is over Lincoln and Riley start spending more and more time together. Riley really likes Lincoln a lot and thinks he is a keeper and the kind of guy you take home to meet yours parents.
She has little problem with taking Lincoln home to meet daddy he is one of the guys he told her stay away from. Riley is afraid of daddy. I think it is more than being afraid of daddy she is afraid for Lincoln too. She is afraid of what daddy will do if he ever finds out about her and Lincoln.
Fearless is one of those novels that I don't think I will ever forget I believe it will stay with me forever. The world that Allana has portrayed in Fearless is one of hate and love of sadness and happiness of loss and gain of fear and fearless.
I think about it almost every day I don't understand how people can hate so bad and so much or so deeply. I ask myself almost every day why can't people love instead. I have shed tears more than once because of all the hate in the world I just don't understand it to me we are all one. My saying that I actually got from my husband is that "we are one".
People claim to love others more than their own self but how can they love others so much if they have all that hate deep inside of them. Can the love outweigh the hate? Does the hate outweigh the love?
Fearless had my attention from the summary. Fearless has all kinds of feelings between its pages and I think I felt most of them if not all of them. While I was reading Fearless I felt the love between two people, I felt the love a daughter has for her father, I felt the love a father has for his daughter. I felt hurt, anger, hate, love, sad, happy, and compassion. Fearless had me in tears on several occasions with different feelings for different reasons.
Fearless is one book that I highly recommend to everyone.
Riley never quiet believed her dad when he was teaching her about hate but she kept that little secret to herself. Riley is the kind of person who doesn't go out looking for bad in people to her if the bad is there it will eventually show its self all on its own without any help from her.
One day Riley's friends talk her into going to a party that her dad would not approve of as they will be booze there. Riley is not into drinking for one thing she is only seventeen and her father is the chief of police. But against her better judgement she lets them talk her into going. After arriving at the party she falls into peer pressure and starts taking shots with her friends.
There is this one guy there who hits on Riley she tells him to keep his hands to himself and when he doesn't listen Riley tells this dude that she is not in to him and hits him. He tells her that he is into her and grabs her again Riley pulls back to hit him again when someone grabs her arm and tells the dude to lay off like the lady said.
Riley and Lincoln like each right off and find a place where they can spend some quiet time together and get to know each other better and the after the party is over Lincoln and Riley start spending more and more time together. Riley really likes Lincoln a lot and thinks he is a keeper and the kind of guy you take home to meet yours parents.
She has little problem with taking Lincoln home to meet daddy he is one of the guys he told her stay away from. Riley is afraid of daddy. I think it is more than being afraid of daddy she is afraid for Lincoln too. She is afraid of what daddy will do if he ever finds out about her and Lincoln.
Fearless is one of those novels that I don't think I will ever forget I believe it will stay with me forever. The world that Allana has portrayed in Fearless is one of hate and love of sadness and happiness of loss and gain of fear and fearless.
I think about it almost every day I don't understand how people can hate so bad and so much or so deeply. I ask myself almost every day why can't people love instead. I have shed tears more than once because of all the hate in the world I just don't understand it to me we are all one. My saying that I actually got from my husband is that "we are one".
People claim to love others more than their own self but how can they love others so much if they have all that hate deep inside of them. Can the love outweigh the hate? Does the hate outweigh the love?
Fearless had my attention from the summary. Fearless has all kinds of feelings between its pages and I think I felt most of them if not all of them. While I was reading Fearless I felt the love between two people, I felt the love a daughter has for her father, I felt the love a father has for his daughter. I felt hurt, anger, hate, love, sad, happy, and compassion. Fearless had me in tears on several occasions with different feelings for different reasons.
Fearless is one book that I highly recommend to everyone.
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