Underneath these gang tattoos beats a heart three times a year. I’m a slow puncture death, a murderer, a rapist, and a number. I killed my best friend. Death doesn’t stalk me, it walks ahead of me by twenty-eight paces.I went home after I sold my soul to the devils. I thought life would begin, I was a free man, instead within days the bullets fly and my last hope dies with the slain. There is … There is nothing left to live for in this world. I belong to the 28s, I’ll always belong to the 28s.
The woman across the road judges me, she hates me, and takes every opportunity to let me know it.
Yet, somehow, when grief etched our names down in the book of the dead, we dared be bold enough to find love.
I’m not a good man, and I’m not pretty. I come from the Cape Flats where my life was reduced to a prison cell number. In all this ugliness I found beauty, innocence, and forgiveness. I can’t forgive myself for the crimes I’ve committed, but I’ll die trying to earn hers.
In a world where nothing matters, she does.
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It takes a very divervastile and competent author to be able to produce such a diverse story. That is what Ms A. Giannoccaro has done with 28 Boys. A believer, a dreamer a sensational author who is willing to push her personal boundaries and jump out of her comfort zone and write what makes her happy. 28 Boys is not the usual storyline in which Ms A. Giannoccaro has written before. This is a passion project (her words) and it will touch your heart and soul.
Based on the life of Frankie and Engela and just how brutal life and love can be on the Cape flats of South Africa. This story is raw, gritty, and in parts will break your heart. It is a true eye opener into just what really happens in parts of the world.
In this world you need to be strong to survive, but to love you must be stronger.
I sincerely recommend for everyone to read this book especially if you want a story like no other. You will not be disappointed.
No matter how I write this review I know I won’t be able to give it the credit it deserves. So I’m gonna tell you how I felt while reading it.
When this popped onto my kindle it took a few days to read it. As I’ve read some previous books by this author I knew I’d need time put aside to inhale it. I knew the author was gonna pull all sorts of feelings out of me so I needed to be prepared. I also knew I wouldn’t want the story to end.
So I found myself on Mothers Day sitting with my kindle and ready to start a book. No better book to start. In my house I declare a strike on this day and do nothing so an ideal day for this book.
I still wasn’t prepared enough for the feels I got while reading this book. I rarely cry while reading but I found myself with tears rolling down my face at parts of this. I had goosebumps reading most of it and I was so afraid to read on yet couldn’t stop. I needed to believe this author would put the bits of my heart together.
This is a raw, sad and emotional story told from Francis and Engelas point of view. Their story isn’t east but it needs to be told. If your looking for unique, a story like no other then I highly recommend you 1-click.
5 EPIC STARS
If I could give this book more than 5 stars I would, Ash has outdone herself on this book.
This review is going to be hard. this book put my through so many emotions while reading I don’t think I have needed as many tissues to get through a book before.
28 boys are one of the hardest books I have ever read and I have NEVER read anything like it and most likely never will again.
It will rip your heart out unless your heart is made of stone.
It is so different but so good and a story that needed to be told through Ash words. And it was done Brilliantly…
Ash has done such an amazing story. it is not a love story it is about a couple who find love when they shouldn’t. really in a place where love really has no place, it is full of heartache and sadness after reading this book it will make you think how lucky we are.
You can feel how much the Author heart and soul went into this book. It is well written and this is by far my Favourite book of A. Giannoccaro.
It takes a very divervastile and competent author to be able to produce such a diverse story. That is what Ms A. Giannoccaro has done with 28 Boys. A believer, a dreamer a sensational author who is willing to push her personal boundaries and jump out of her comfort zone and write what makes her happy. 28 Boys is not the usual storyline in which Ms A. Giannoccaro has written before. This is a passion project (her words) and it will touch your heart and soul.
Based on the life of Frankie and Engela and just how brutal life and love can be on the Cape flats of South Africa. This story is raw, gritty, and in parts will break your heart. It is a true eye opener into just what really happens in parts of the world.
In this world you need to be strong to survive, but to love you must be stronger.
I sincerely recommend for everyone to read this book especially if you want a story like no other. You will not be disappointed.
No matter how I write this review I know I won’t be able to give it the credit it deserves. So I’m gonna tell you how I felt while reading it.
When this popped onto my kindle it took a few days to read it. As I’ve read some previous books by this author I knew I’d need time put aside to inhale it. I knew the author was gonna pull all sorts of feelings out of me so I needed to be prepared. I also knew I wouldn’t want the story to end.
So I found myself on Mothers Day sitting with my kindle and ready to start a book. No better book to start. In my house I declare a strike on this day and do nothing so an ideal day for this book.
I still wasn’t prepared enough for the feels I got while reading this book. I rarely cry while reading but I found myself with tears rolling down my face at parts of this. I had goosebumps reading most of it and I was so afraid to read on yet couldn’t stop. I needed to believe this author would put the bits of my heart together.
This is a raw, sad and emotional story told from Francis and Engelas point of view. Their story isn’t east but it needs to be told. If your looking for unique, a story like no other then I highly recommend you 1-click.
Real, raw, heartbreaking and thoughtful. This book opened my eyes and my heart in ways I didn’t think were possible. It’s not romance but it is about love blooming in places even the bravest hearts will not tread.
This story is not an easy read but it is one that everyone should read. Do so with an open mind and an open heart. Set what you think you know aside and you may experience something that will forever alter how you think, how you judge and how you feel.
Whoa. That’s the first word that comes to mind when trying to explain the impact that this story had on me. Whoa.
I had heard about this book from the author herself as well as several people in her group and had really been looking forward to reading it. It sounded like a great book. I had absolutely no idea that the word ‘great’ wouldn’t even begin to cover it.
I read the reviews, I received several warnings from people who had read it before I got to it, and they all said the same thing. It wasn’t a happy story.
Me, being the person I am, who loves dark and twisted and horror and blood and all things that are scary, thought that I could handle it. I thought I could get through this book and come out unscathed. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
I think the part that hit me the hardest was that, a lot of this is happening, here and now, in the real world. Death, destruction, pain and loss. It’s all around us. This was just one persons story. A tale of trying to overcome the life they were inevitably thrust into because of where they were born. Trying to get away from the drugs, and the guns, and the violence and actually make a life for themselves. A person trying to survive, a person with feelings.
I think that there are a lot of us who tend to forget that. That sometimes people can only live with the hand they are dealt and are forced to do unspeakable things in order to survive. They still have feelings, emotions, and they can still love.
This book was amazing. Absolutely incredible. Yes, it was heart-wrenching and absolutely depressing, but it has got to be one of the best books I have ever read. It makes you think and it makes you feel. By god, does it make you feel. But it was worth every damn tear I shed. I would give it more than five stars if I could.