The Epic Conclusion to The Boy & His Ribbon
“What do you do when you write down all your secrets? No…that’s not enough. What do you do when you write down all your secrets and the one person who should never read them does?I’ll tell you what you do.You hope.”RENRen didn’t know the meaning of love until he took Della for his own.To begin with, he hated her, but as the months bled into … his own.
To begin with, he hated her, but as the months bled into years, he learned the opposite of hate, dedicating his life to giving her everything.
Every sacrifice, every gift, he gave wholeheartedly.
But then love turned to lust and ruined everything.
DELLA
I was stupid to write down my secrets, but I’d been stupid before, so it was nothing new.
I couldn’t blame him, hate him, fix him.
I tried to move on without him.
But no matter what I did, I couldn’t seem to delete the secrets I’d written.
Until something happened.
Until he came back and read my stupid secrets.
And nothing was the same after that.
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Della & Ren’s story is absolutely heart breaking and heart healing. Their love is something I wish everyone could experience. I can’t put into words my review for a Girl & her Ren because my thoughts and feelings are all over the place right now. I read this book right after the Boy & his Ribbon. 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.
5*
Della & Ren’s story continues from The boy & his ribbon. Ren has been struggling with his feelings towards Della the age difference of 10 years been a main point, however, Della is determined to get what she wants but can she face the consequences? The emotions throughout this book were realistic the consequences of their love & the hardships they faced.
Absolutely brilliant book.
I cried big fat ugly tears. First book that’s ever made me do that. Good job Pepper Winters!
I’ve woken up after about 4 hours sleep with the most massive headache and eyes so swollen I can’t fully open them. Is it an allergy? Maybe I spent thirty seconds in the ring with Tyson in my sleep? Nope, it is all down to a book. Words on pages that ripped my heart out of my chest, and turned me into a sobbing mess.
The duet was recommended to me with a warning that I would need tissues. I may have filled up many times during the first book but goodness me the author altered that tremendously in this second book. I think from about 70% I couldn’t control my tears. The need to take breathers, the need to stop and compose myself was there often from that moment on. At one point I put my kindle down with the intention of sleep and picking up the story again this morning, but I just couldn’t. Even though in my heart I new what was coming, I just had to read it for myself and know for certain.
Pepper Winters shares her concerns about the book and the research that went into creating this heartbreaking but beautiful story. I’m glad she wrote it as it is. A different story would not have been the same. So thank you for writing this outstanding story and not listening or acting on your doubts. Thank you for crushing me through the emotions that this book brought out in me. For the reader deciding whether to choose this duet as their next read, please go for it! Don’t read spoilers, go in blind and devour every single page.
Gorgeous story of true love that will haunt you for days. Even though my heart was shattered at the end of the book, I’ve never felt more satisfied in the power of love.
Amazing characters and a beautiful story.
So good! Love it!
I sobbed my heart out but wouldn’t have had it finish any other way. Excellent writing, fantastic characterization, and superb execution of an amazing plot. So different to anything else I’ve read.
Wonderful story
Such an awesome read.
This story, The Girl and Her Ren, utterly broke me. I’m broken…. I’ve been broken by life of Ren and Della Ribbon. I’m broken because of life and love, which was shown painfully throughout the story. As a reader, I’m not going to lie. There will be no sugarcoating of what happens between the main characters. There will be small moments meant for laughter but there will be other… Other times were you don’t know how you or the characters might cope.
True love transcends time and space. Ren and Della Wild had that type of love. They were bound through their experiences. They were soul mates. I felt so much for these characters, Ren especially. Once you start the second half of their tale, you won’t be able to stop. Time and any basic needs will come second. The tale of Ren and his Ribbon will come first. Be brave when you read this tale. Be brave to feel. Be brave…
Mini Playlist
Vance Joy- Mess Is Mine
The Fray- Look After You
Snow Patrol- Chasing Cars
Mumford &Sons- After The Storm
The Goo Goo Dolls- Better Days
Parachute- She Is Love
Five For Fighting- Chances
Coldplay- The Scientist
Christina Perri- A Thousand Years
There are not enough words in the english language nor enough stars in the sky that could justifiably describe my thoughts and feelings of The Girl and Her Ren. This is not a love story, this is a story of love. A love in all it’s many special and complicated forms.
I have read stories that have wrought every emotion from me. Books that have taken a piece of me. Characters that have touched my soul intimately, and a plot that has left me astounded. But none have encompassed these to the level that Ren and Della’s story has. Winters has written a transcendental story that is timeless.
I will forever be changed by having read this duet. My heart will never be the same. It has been broke, but Pepper Winters has reconstructed it by breathing Ren and Della’s story into it to forever be a part of me.
If you ever only read one book/series in your life, this would be the story to read. This duet has garnered my top read of all time, and I doubt will be exceeded by another.
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ARC
Title: The Girl and her Ren (The Ribbon Duet#2)
Author: Pepper Winters
Publisher: Self Published
Amount of Pages:300
Genre:Dark, Romance, New Adult/Adult
Date Read: 04-06-2018
Favorite Quote:”Caring for you was the easiest thing I’ve ever done, Della. Raising you was the best thing I’ve ever achieved. I’m so fucking honoured to have had that privilege.”
“For Della and Jacob”
“Some say our romance is over. That his death ruins our story. And I’d agree, but only because romance can be killed, but love..it can’t. It lived on, and I’m patient enough to wait for our happily ever after.”
“When you love that deeply, nothing can ever die.”
“Love transcends time, space, distance, universes. Love can’t be confined to pages or photos or memories- it’s forever alive and wild and free. Romance comes and goes, lust flickers and smoulders, trials appear and test, life gets in the way and educates, pain can derail happiness, joy can delete sadness, togetherness is more than just a fairy-tale…it’s a choice.
A choice to love and cherish and honour and trust and adore.
A choice to choose love, all while knowing it has the power to break you.
A choice dear friends, to give someone you entire heart.
But in the end, love is what life is about. And love is the purpose of everything.”
Review:
I will say it one more time, just incase you didn’t guess it yet but this review will be full of spoilers. I can’t talk about this book without spoiling. So be warned.
This book is so heartbreakingly good. It broke my heart. I hardly cry over book, but this book made me bawl. I spoiled the ending for myself and even the author warns us that this book will be about live, about how live can be full of hardship, sadness and despair. Even though I knew, saw it coming and was warned on top of that, it still broke my heart. I bawled my eyes out. I can’t write my review without my eyes tearing up. I couldn’t write my favorite quotes without my heart wrenching in sadness and a desire to cry some more.
Ren deserved more, he deserved so much more than live offered him. He deserved a miracle and so did Della. But sadly that isn’t live, not often anyways.
This book hurt, reading it hurt, it hit me hard. But it is worth is. His story, their story is worth it. It is a story that you just can’t tell and not read. It’s an amazing story. It is a story about love, about how love is worth anything. That love is what this live is about, no matter how hard. Live isn’t fair, life is painful but it is also good, and amazing and so worth it if you can find that love that transcends time. A love that will go on forever and that’s the kind of love we see in this book. A love that will never stop.
This book will stay with me for a long time, I doubt I’ll ever forget it. It’s a story that maybe in time I will be able to reread but I doubt it will ever be without tears.
What is this book about:
As I’ve said before this book is about love. It’s about life in all it’s way. It’s about finding that person you will give your entire being to and hope they give it to you in return. It’s about living live to the fullest you could. It’s about pain, cruelty, hardship, sadness. It’s about the bad, cruel side of life but also about the amazing wonderful side of live.
This book takes off where the last one ended. Ren left Della and both of them are suffering for it. They are miserable apart. Ren is struggling with accepting how he’s felt all along and dealing with the moral issue of it. After all he did raise Della, saw her in every phase of her live. Loved her in all the different way’s you can love some one.
After coming to the realization that he is in fact in love with her, Ren goes back. But even though he figured out his feelings, he’s still struggling. He and Della are giving it a try, and it’s the best decision they ever made.
They go back home, go back to the woods and live wild and free. They are free to do whatever they please, be together in whatever way they want.
After a few years and certain events, Ren wants to give Della more. He wants to give her security, a roof over her head, money to support her. He wants to give her everything.
And so he does. Unfortunate events make them go back to the place they spend allot of years, back at the farm with John.
There they begin building a live together. But things don’t remain good. After all the pain live dealt Ren, it decides to make matters worse, Ren is sick. Terminally ill, no cure.
He makes it his lives mission to get everything out of whatever time he has left, and fulfill the promise he made Della. To give her everything he can.
What did I love about this book:
I don’t know how I feel about this book. I read to no be hit in the face with reality and this book didn’t hit that quota. It hit me in the face big time. I loved the true love in this book. I loved seeing Ren happy. Seeing him more at peace at time. I loved his and Della’s love story because it’s a true one. It’s a fierce and passionate one. A love that will never die.
I hate the pain, the cruelty, the fight to prolong an ending we know is coming. I hate the hardship, and the tears.
This is a very difficult book to read. It’s hard to know that there is nothing you can do to change it, no real hope that it might be different. That somehow something changes and that miracles exist. It’s real, this book is so very very real.
So i’m very conflicted about this book, my feelings are still all over the place.
The story of Della and Ren is so well written. Incredibly well done. It stayed true to the characters personality, to Ren’s personality. A fighter, a survive to the very end. There are many things I haven’t talk about in this book so don’t think that the spoilers I’ve given sums up all the events that happen in this book because it’s not. I’ve told the beginning and part of the ending, but not everything that happened in between. It’s definitely worth the read. Just keep whine, chocolate and tissues near by, you will need it.
Rating:
5 Amazing Stars
This book broke my heart in the most beautiful way!! Epic love story!! Honestly one of the most meaningful books I have read to date.
Oftentimes, I’ve found that I don’t agree with the hype of popular books. That’s what makes the world different: Everyone has things that work for them and don’t.
I’ve heard of Pepper Winters, I may have even started Tears Of Tess a few years back, but I don’t remember finishing it. I know, don’t look at me that way. I’m a mood reader, and I must not have been in the mood for it at the time. With as many books as I read, I never found myself able to get back to it.
But, anyway, that’s not what book I’m talking about.
The premise of this duet sucked me in. I had no idea what I was getting into. What I found was a riveting story that completely held me captive. The pacing can be very slow, but the words, the story, and the characters had me by the throat and wouldn’t let me go.
Diving into this second installment, there are hints of things to come. I knew it. I saw it coming. With each turning page, i waited for the bombshell, the one that would lead me into knowing I was right.
Even knowing, I wasn’t prepared.
This story has SO many elements to it. I loved Ren and Della from day one. Did I always agree with their actions? Nope, but in real life, you don’t always agree with everything a person does. This duet made me FEEL. And I love to feel while reading a book.
I was beginning to wonder if we’d ever get closure on where they came from and if they would understand. I’m glad we got to see that. I think the last 40% of the book, I read even faster than I normally do. There were some amazingly touching moments. This story is unique, emotional, and one that will stay with me for a long time. From what I’m reading, this is very different from Pepper Winters’ other books, but I’m eager to check them out after I somehow manage to come down from the book hangover I’m currently suffering from. I cried buckets. Tears ran down my face. Yeah, this gutted me. And there are a lot of people unhappy with outcomes, but I’m giving kudos to the author for writing the story the way she felt it needed to happen.
Because life happens, and it’s not always the way we hope it would turn out.
Beautiful, engaging, and heart-wrenching story.
When I first read the first book of this duet I said that it didn’t have the emotional impact that I was expecting. With this second book I take back that statement. It was an eye opener and left me a mess. I had to take a break and just be before I could attempt to write this review. Even still I don’t know what to say. I don’t want to spoil it for other readers but at the same time I want to vent and just get it all out. I’m sitting here with tears and still, I have a smile on my face because the love that Ren had with his Ribbon….. its the love that romance readers ache for. We want that conflict, that passion, that soul searing love that you will never get over. I can say with all honest that Ren and Della’s love will not be something o will ever forget. I will tell you that it wasn’t the easiest book to read and that the ending killed me, but the author stayed true to these characters and I wouldn’t have had it any different. 5 stars #2OCCJD
Truly my favorite read ever! So beautiful!
I couldn’t believe the emotional attachment and journey I took with this book. I didn’t feel as if I was just reading a book, it felt as if I knew the characters personally. I laughed, felt their pain, understood their ups and downs, was jealous at some points, cried ( a lot….. happy and sad tears), and was deeply moved by the heart that went into creating a wonderful love/life story. Pepper Winters has outdone herself with the Ribbon Duet. She is a talented literal magician, that can pull you under a spell before finishing the first chapter. You won’t regret reading Della and Ren’s story. Because it will stay nestled deep within you long after you’ve read the last page. Thank you Pepper Winters, for sharing your amazing gift with us.
You will NEVER read another Duet like The Boy And His Ribbon & The Girl And Her Ren! It was unlike anything I have ever read and nothing I write here could ever do it justice!
Whew, that was a long one. Although long and very wordy, Pepper can tell one heck of a story. She wrote the crap outta this book. Very emotional and not a traditional HEA, bravo. This is an unforgettable story. Although it didn’t end how I would’ve like, it is still a fantastic duet.