USA TODAY BESTSELLING LOVE STORY “What do you do when you meet your soul mate? No wait…that’s too easy. What do you do when you meet your soul mate and have to spend a lifetime loving him in secret? I’ll tell you what you do.You lie.” REN Ren was eight when he learned that love doesn’t exist—that the one person who was supposed to adore him only cared how much he was worth.His mother sold him and … doesn’t exist—that the one person who was supposed to adore him only cared how much he was worth.
His mother sold him and for two years, he lived in terror.
But then…he ran.
He thought he’d run on his own. Turned out, he took something of theirs by accident and it became the one thing he never wanted and the only thing he ever needed.
DELLA
I was young when I fell in love with him, when he switched from my world to my everything.
My parents bought him for cheap labour, just like they had with many other kids, and he had the scars to prove it.
At the start, he hated me, and I could understand why.
For years he was my worst enemy, fiercest protector, and dearest friend.
But by the end…he loved me.
The only problem was, he loved me in an entirely different way to the way I loved him.
And slowly, my secret drove us apart.
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This book deserves a million stars. It is one of my favorite books/series. The emotion leaps from the page and I feel like I know these characters. They feel like members of my family. Ren is just perfection. This story is so unique and special it is truly one of a kind. I love it so much and have re-read several times. You need to read this beautiful book!
This book deserves so many more that 5 Stars.
Told in dual POV from Ren and Della. The story starts with Ren a 10 yr old boy, desperate to escape the life in which he was sold into. Slavery. With nothing more that meagre possessions he escapes on for only to discover a stowaway within his backpack. Della, still a baby.
We are taken through time, their lives evolving, growing, right before our eyes. Their lives are a constant struggle. Struggling for food, comfort, and warmth.
Ren will and does anything and everything for Della, their love pure, innocence and unconditional. As the years pass their relationship becomes somewhat complicated and walls are built and secrets held.
I have never read a book like this before and I absolutely loved it. It’s new, fresh and has all the feels and had me on a roller coaster of emotions. Ren and Della’s story is raw, heartbreaking, and ripped my heart out. This is definitely in my top 10 reads for 2018.
I thoroughly loved reading the outstanding and extraordinary, beautifully written story. When Ren was ten years old, he couldn’t take the abuse and being a slave anymore and ran away, but he had a stowaway, a baby, Della, who was playing with a blue ribbon. Ren didn’t know how to take care of a baby and could barely take care of himself. He tried leaving Della with a loving family, but finally decided they were in this together. The dynamics between Ren and Della is special, but as Della goes to school and gets older, her feeling for Ren change. Read the highly recommended, wonderfully written story riveting the reader from the beginning to the end of the story looking forward with anticipation for the second story in the series.
One of the best books I have EVER read
I am utterly consumed with these characters. I have so much to do but I can’t stop thinking about them. So I am just reading and reading them. I just bought the second book. Go grab this. Amazing.
Be prepared to have your heart, mind, and soul consumed by The Boy & His Ribbon. As with all of Pepper Winters’ books, I was not able to put this book down. It grabs you from the first page to the last. This book is part one, of three, of The Ribbon Duet series and must be read in order. Trust me, you will not want to miss one word of this incredible story.
I don’t have the words to tell you how well this book is written, but I will give it a try. Beautifully, painstakingly, written, but so much more. This book is complicated, multifaceted and will have you questioning all you know or think you know about love. If you are looking for a sweet romantic story, you are looking at the wrong book. This is a love story that will wreck you. The book starts with an innocent, pure, child-like love, and slowly builds to an unrequited forbidden lustful love. As I have stated before this is a complex book not only just about love but about the struggle for survival when everything seems to be working against you.
Ren is “The Boy”, who is sold into slavery by his mother when he is eight years old. Della is “His Ribbon”, the baby of the two monsters that he has been sold to. This story is their journey of survival and love. This book guides us through the struggles, both mental and physical, that Ren and Della experience over eighteen years. So be prepared to have your heart ripped out, stomped on and then put back in your chest. I adore both Ren and Della, but I will say that I fell in love with Ren. Ren is a conundrum, rough exterior with a soft underbelly, uneducated but smart and finally, he can be cold and aloof, but when it comes to his Ribbon, he loves so deeply that it hurts. To put it simply Ren is lovely.
This book does end in a cliff hanger. But lucky for us all the books in this series are finished. Right now, all three of these books are free on Kindle Unlimited!
If you have never read any of Ms. Winters’ books, you are missing out! I highly recommend this book, and I am looking forward to reading all the books in this series. Be warned you will become obsessed with reading all her books!
This book, this story, Wow! Ren and Della share a love that is so pure, timeless and limitless. When I started reading I was reeled in so quickly, I began to really feel the story, feel for Ren being so young and dealing with what life had given him. He took it and wouldn’t let it beat him. He made a life for not only himself but for Della too. Sometimes it was easy, sometimes it was downright hard, but they had one another, it’s all that mattered. His feelings for Della grew from annoyance, to tolerance to eventually love. Everything he did he did for Della. No matter what life threw at them they persevered. They reluctantly accepted help from a family which quickly became their family, and their saving grace. Their love evolved over the years and lines were blurred, more for Ren than Della, but at the end of the day love is love and they had each other, all they would ever need.
Wow! What an amazing yet unique story. Ren and Della’s story is complicated yet simple while mixed with a forbidden element. Spans over 17 years and leaves you wanting more. Delivers all the feels. Can’t wait for book 2.
I hate myself for how much i fell into this and i love /hate pepper winters because of it..thats a compliment.
Magical!
Great writing, nice story.
This is for the set of books 1 and 2, The Boy and His Ribbon and The Girl and Her Ren. One of my favorite series of all time. You have to read The Son and His Hope after but wow, the angst about killed me. I was heartbroken and emotional the whole time and was just sick about it. It will rip your heart out and put it back together. Pepper is great at doing that. This story takes place over years and you start out when they’re really young. Just take a chance on it!
Loved this book!
It was written so well that the dual point of views actually felt as if it were two totally different people who wrote this story. It’s so complex and even has my own emotions in a state of confusion. I’m not sure what I should feel, what is right and what is wrong?
I want to dive in to next book in the series, but I need a little time to digress. Then hopefully I can go back to it feeling a bit more light hearted.
Wow!! This book was phenomenal! I have never read a book like it. Ms. Winter drew me in with each page i could not put this book down and I had to go to the next book immediately. Ren and Della their story is just unbeilveable it will have you crying for them, laughing, it will have all your emotions triggered. Well done well done.
Phenomenal Book!!!!!!
This was an excellent book!!! From start to finish it had me entranced. I can’t wait to read the conclusion to Ren & Della’s story. Something tells me this duet is a MUST READ!
Best book I’ve read in a long while and I read a lot. Book 2 is even better. Don’t hesitate to read these!
Ren and Della’s story is absolutely heart breaking and heart healing. I can’t put into words my review for the Boy & his Ribbon because my thoughts and feelings are all over the place right now. I read this book and then book 2 a girl and her Ren right after. No break in between because I just had to know the continuation of their story but that may have been a mistake because my emotions are in over drive.
So until I can write the review this amazing book deserves I will just say that Ren & Della’s story is not easy, it’s not sunshine and rainbows but it is worth reading every word between the pages.
This book leaves me feeling unsure. The writing style was wonderful, this is the first book that I have read by this author. It’s the subject matter that I am unsure of. It’s so raw. While I’m unsure of where it takes place, it would be more believable if it was decades prior, not 2000-present day. I like the Authors style and while I won’t be finishing the duet, I will be looking forward to reading her other work.
This series will have your emotions everywhere highly recommended by far the best book I’ve ever read!