Khloe finally has it all – good friends, a successful acting career, a Dom who loves her, and a bright future ahead of her. Despite that, old insecurities flare after she is turned down for a coveted role. Khloe quickly falls back into old habits that lead down a dark and dangerous path. If she hurries, she can achieve her goal weight by the time anyone finds out. Because stopping is always the … the easy part, right?Black Light: Purged is a short story set in the Black Light world. It gives a candid glimpse into the life of a woman who struggles with eating disorders. For this reason, it could be a trigger for some readers.
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Chloe and Ryder
They were among my favorite couples from the first Blacklight anthology, and here they are again with a frighteningly real snippet of Chloe’s addiction.
When she does not get the coveted lead in a movie, all she hears is, it’s because she’s too fat. With alarming speed she concentrates on that fact alone, fading out all attempts of help. She even ignores Ryder’s phone calls. Her only aim is to purge, to rid herself of all that perceived ballast.
While she is able to fool Trevor, her friend and bodyguard to some extent, it takes the love and steady hand of Ryder to help her stop the downward spiral.
This is a tiny peek into the nightmare of an addiction. Told with chilling accuracy and insight.
Can Khloe let this movie slip through her fingers
This is my 5th book by Livia and I enjoyed this continuing, short story of Khloe and Ryder romance. Khloe’s career is everything to her, or is it? Will Ryder notice the signs of her eating disorder? I enjoyed this fast read and the length that Ryder will go to keep Khloe healthy!
This was a fast paced intense short story about Khloe struggles and having a setback with her biggest obstacle of her eating disorder and the emotion that’s brought out with her and Ryder is so felt right down to your very soul, the love he has for her is beautiful and so strong and she is one very lucky lady to have a love and support to keep her on track of whats really important.
What a wonderful story. We had read about Chloe and Ryder in the original Black Light series. In this short story we see Chloe having trouble with her eating disorder after not getting a leading part. It is a good look into a way of helping a person with an eating disorder. Livia Grant did an excellent job in writing this book.
I first read this story when it was originally part of the Just Breathe anthology, and it was one of my favorites. I think that was partially because it gave me insight into a disorder that has been portrayed and spoken about in the media on various occasions, but was not one which I had much in the way of intimate knowledge of. Khloe is a driven young woman, and when circumstances pitch her a setback, she decides her only recourse is to ‘correct’ the issue by falling back into a terrible pattern, one that she has only recently began dealing with in a healthy manner. How the author gave us insight into the mind of someone who rationalizes and justifies this kind of self-destructive behavior was without doubt the strongest part of this story. Not only was it fascinating to get that peek into Khloe’s mind, but it was gut wrenching to see someone look firmly past the destructiveness of what they were doing only because they felt the ends justified the means, when that clearly wasn’t the case. As a reader I also could very much relate to the feelings of Ryder (Khloe’s Dom) perhaps even more than I did to Khloe herself, especially when it came to his feelings of anger and frustration at seeing what she was doing to herself. That is what I would posit is an almost universal feeling, and the way Ryder was portrayed as he dealt with Khloe’s slipping—not perfect, but never without her best interest at heart—was equal parts heart-rending and romantic.
Short though this story is, I recommend it not only for the touching story between Khloe and Ryder, but also for the insight into the mind of how someone who suffers from an ‘eating disorder’ can validate to themselves actions which are terribly harmful.