Dear A. –
I am writing to express my gratitude for your gift. There are no sufficient words, but please accept my sincerest thank you.
Yours,
R.
She writes me back.
I didn’t expect that.
She tells me she’s a lover of chicken pizza and video games, a hot sorority girl with the nickname Sloth. She wants to know something about me in return. She says I owe her.
This is how she saves my … says I owe her.
This is how she saves my life. She doesn’t even know it. We’ve never even seen each other. But I need a reason. Just one reason to continue. She becomes mine.
The anonymity is good. She doesn’t need to know me, but I need her kindness. We both live our lives: a letter here, a post card there. For three years, I escape my demons. And then one day I’m pulled back in.
I’ve resigned myself to what I know is coming. Until the girl I’m spanking gives her safe word: Sloth.
And then the lie I’m living starts to unravel.
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Sloth is a 500-page, 150,000-word stand alone novel with many twists, one huge secret, and a non-cliffhanger ending. It will wreck you, but you’ll like it.
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Warning that you never see coming: Tissues will be needed and you’ll never see it coming. I don’t believe in spoilers. I hate them. I just want to prepare you for a heart stopping twist in the story. Enough said!
Cleo is a young college girl trying to make it in a material world. She is trying to claw her way out of the despair and poverty that her family has been in all her life. She does things most would be ashamed of. Cleo is not most people. She needs to make a future for herself and her sister and she will not apologize for it. When she gets caught, Cleo has to compromise to get out of her sticky situation.
Kellan is a very sticky situation. He’s gorgeous, a soccer star, and every girls fantasy. (Yes, Cleo thinks it too, but won’t say it.) Kellan is the opposite of Cleo. He’s the rule follower, goody two shoes, and he’s Cleo’s kryptonite. He’s mysterious and full of secrets and surprises.
The surprises never seem to stop and Cleo can’t figure out whether or not to keep up. The pull she has for Kellan is bone deep. Is it deep enough for him too? Is R.? Is the Sloth? Will the secrets destroy them or bring them together?
I don’t normally beg, but please read this story. Buy the book, the e-book, do it. Its an amazing story and when you do read the Author’s Note. listen to what she has to say. If you have it in your heart, help out or spread the word. Just don’t ruin the story for the next person, please!
This is a boring book about two college students who meet under mysterious circumstances and have sex. Then they have more and more sex punctuated by occasionally speaking to other humans mostly either about sex or their huge drug business activities. They sometimes mention classes but they don’t attend often. He likes BDSM and introduces her to it without really discussing it with her beforehand or maybe I skipped that part. Where was I? Oh yes. They have more sex and at least two conversations where sex is not mentioned…much. He has a big terrible dark secret that she can never know about which involves a secret room and his twin brother. I don’t want to give away the plot so I can’t tell you the secret. I’ll just say that I can’t figure out why it was such a secret. I’m truly baffled. They have sex in a couple inappropriate places which I found to be ridiculous. No one, that I have ever met, has ever indicated that they have had a relationship where they couldn’t control their sexual desires. Sex? Yes. Lots of sex? Yes. Uncontrollable sex? Nope. I would say that this book was well written despite the content but there was a great amount of their time together spent inside their heads with no real dialogue. The plot really was rather silly and farfetched. It dragged a lot and I did a lot of skipping and skimming. However, I applaud the author for her ability to write a book because that isn’t easy and I applaud her for her ability to write that many sex scenes in one book. I’m giving this two stars. I will recommend this book to those readers that like lots of sexy times and BDSM but I don’t think that I am in the author’s target audience.
This author and story was new to me, but holy crap! I need more of this greatness in my life. Kellan and Cleo’s story just might incinerate your kindle. There was an epic level of hotness going on here. The blurb is kinda vague so I was going in blind, but I loved the journey. There’s a bit of mystery, a bit college romance, a lot of marijuana. There were some twists I didn’t see coming, and then there was an emotional sucker punch that left me dizzy and weepy. I am in love with this book.
Ella James is a long time favorite of mine, but I’d not yet tackled Sloth, one of her most recognized and revered works. It is massive in length- a veritable tome- but I felt every word keenly. Cleo and Kellan’s story is difficult in places, beautiful in others, and completely consuming throughout. The length of this story allows Ella to really invest in their relationship journey to allow so much story to build around them- the evolution of words on a page to strangers getting to know each other to an intense connection. This couple goes through so much- and there is a lot to figure out. Just know that this story is an investment- but it pays off, truly, you just have to trust in this story, and these characters. In the end, I’m heavily in my feels. The heat is scorching, the beautiful moments breathtaking, and the despairing moments ripped my heart out. The careful construction of this plot- this story- and the twists and turns…well, they floored me. This story is different, unique, challenging in places- but the heart is the intense interconnection of the flawed but magical Cleo and Kellan, and the dynamic push pull of two characters whose paths are already cemented to each other.
Kellan and Cleo’s story is one of the most emotional and painful, yet sweetest stories I have ever read. It is told in numerous flashbacks, which very gradually reveal the background of Kellan’s fate. Never before have I had to stop reading a book so often to just digest the chapter I have just read.
Kellan is such a complex person, hiding behind layers upon layers of secrets, lies and half-truths to protect himself and Cleo from his cruel truth and reality ….
There are many sweet moments that lighten the often dark mood and are the perfect counterpart to the darkness and heaviness and hell he lives in.
Cleo is the Ying to his Yang, the gentleness to his hardness, the light to his darkness, the angel who relieves his pain and agony …
Together they could not be more perfect!
This book is a challenge on many levels, emotionally and psychologically. It is an absolute MUST READ. It will make you reflect on your own life, your goals in life and what is really important and what is not!
I really wasn’t sure what Sloth was about for half the book. I knew there was a reason that Kellen and Cleo met just took a long time to figure out why. I really liked Kellen although I wasn’t always sure why. This is an emotional read once the pieces of the puzzle start to fall into place. Both Kellen and Cleo have been dealt a bad hand and their pasts have shaped the way the view life. Sloth is hot and steamy as this beautifully broken story unfolds. Once I was done with Sloth I realized I really enjoyed the story. There were moments that made me laugh and nearly brought me to tears.
One of my most favorite books…great story,characters and writing!
If there is an Ella James book that doesn’t seserve five stars I haven’t found it. This one is no exception. Anything Ella James is a must read
Sloth such a deep and difficult sin to understand. I have had so much fun with this series, traversing the 7 deadly sins!! I am excited and sad that we only have one more sin to explore in this riveting adventure. This series is dark and sexy, twisted and crazy. I honestly never know where the authors are taking us. I feel like I got into a car and someone took of going 120 miles an hour and I can’t get out. This series written by this group of authors had been brilliant. This is the story of Rush and Isabelle and these two are like dry kindling set on fire. It’s so intense and I wasn’t expecting Sloth to be so swoony and incredible!! If you haven’t read this series yet you need to make this a binge read!! It’s incredible!!
Love this authors gut wrenching stories!! Ella James does an outstanding job of character building and emotional story telling!! I look forward to reading all of her steamy, unpredictable tremendously well written stories!!
There are no words to describe just how hard I love this book, and everything about it. Steamy is an understatement.
Love this book! An absolute amazing read! It kept me interested from the first chapter! The beginning threw me off until I realized it was letters and I would understand their significance later on in the book but other than that this was an emotional , hot , heart felt, happy ending book! It will make you laugh, cry and hot all in the span of a few pages! I stayed up until 3 am to finish this book because I didn’t want to stop reading, I had to know what happened! I highly recommend this book!