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Thursday, April 30, 2015

BOOK TOUR & REVIEW-- All this time by Tiffani Burnett-Velez




Title: All This Time
Author: Tiffani Burnett-Velez
Publication Date: April 3 2015
Publisher: Booktrope
Book Links: Goodreads || Amazon || B&N

Syrian-American, Lydia Fadoul, has spent a year waiting for her fiancé to return from war in Iraq, only to discover that he is broken by trauma and the devastating effects of PTSD.

Just when he finally agrees to seek help, he takes his own life and leaves behind a story of murder, betrayal, and mystery.

In her second, contemporary fiction novel since Budapest, Tiffani Burnett-Velez weaves a fast-paced literary tale about the rumors we believe and the prejudices we create in order to protect our hearts from the truth.  



Author Bio

4580300Tiffani Burnett-Velez has been a freelance since 1996. Her non - fiction work has appeared in magazines and newspapers in the US and Europe, including Pennsylvania Magazine, Country Discoveries, St . Anthony Messenger, Health.com, Yahoo! News, and many more online and in print publications.
Her first novel, Budapest, was featured in the New York Book Festival and the 4 2nd Annual Conference of Jewish Librarians and it's re-release became a 2014 Amazon Bestseller in Literary and Inspirational Fiction.

Her second contemporary novel, All This Time, will be released by Booktrope in 2015, and the second, A Berlin Story, in her bestselling WWII novella series, Embers of War, is an Amazon Historical German Fiction Bestseller.

She has studied English Literature at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania and holds a BA in Cognitive Science from Ashford University. She is currently completing her MFA in Creative Writing.

Author Links Website || Twitter || Goodreads


I received this book from Netgalley in return for my honest review.

Syrian-American Lydia Fadoul has spent a year waiting for her fiance’ to return from war in Iraq, only to discover that he is broken by trauma and the devastating effects of PTSD. Just when he finally agrees to seek help, he takes his own life and leaves behind a story of murder, betrayal, and mystery. In her second, contemporary fiction novel since Budapest, Tiffani Burnett-Velez weaves a fast-paced literary tale about the rumors we believe and the prejudices we create in order to protect our hearts from the truth~ Amazon

I don't know where to begin. This book had a great premise, and an exciting story that kept me guessing the whole time.   Lydia's fiance served two tours of duty in Iraq and came home suffering from PSTD. Having known several people who suffered with PTSD, I automatically felt a kinship with her. She truly loved Tom and wanted to help him but eventually gave him the ultimatum, if you want to be with me, you must get help. Just when he consents to getting help, he commits suicide.  Rumors start to come out of the woodwork about Tom and the "incident" in Iraq.  Who should she believe? The man she knew and loved or the military? 

 I loved Lydia and her family. I grew to care about them and could almost feel the love they had for each other. Even during the really hard times when her parents didn't approve of her decisions, they still loved her.  Their family dynamic was one of the parts that made this book so good to me. Marcus, a former Marine and now a journalist, says he wants to help her find the truth.  Lydia wants to trust him but what if he's just another typical journalist just out for a good story!?  The storyline of them working together to find the truth was exciting and made it hard for me to put the book down.

The ending  seemed rushed nut, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it's because it's a 
cliffhanger and we'll find out more because there will be more books in the series. 
If I hear there is going to be another, I'll be sure to let you all know! 4.5/5

~Laurie
 

This tour was organized by Good Tales Book Tours.

1 comment:

  1. Hi!

    Thank you so much for hosting today! We sure do appreciate your support!

    Laurie Starkey
    Good Tales Book Tours

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