Name: Stay with Me
Rating: 4.021276595744681 (94 reviews)
ISBN: 9781735204796

Nicole Fiorina

This heart-consuming series if for the poetry lovers, dreamers, and those who love a little suspense.

Stay with Me

Genesis (@whisperingchapters)

Stephanie 

“I don’t need friends. I prefer solitude.” 

“Then how do you expect to smile like you are right now all by yourself?”

Hana 

Do people who don’t feel like this actually have nobody who makes them feel that way or do they simply not care?

I didn't want to be around people who didn't want to be around me, anyway. Isolation was my paradise.

FIRST BOOK IN A HEART-CONSUMING SERIES.In a desperate final attempt to save nineteen-year-old Mia from herself, she gets transferred to Dolor University, a reformatory college in the UK that housed deranged and dangerous young adults who viewed the private institution as their own personal playground. Mia didn't care. She needed feelings to care. She'd keep her head down, ignore everyone, and make it through the next two years effortlessly. Though Mia never anticipated Ollie Masters.With green eyes, tattoos, and the voice of a poet, she is quickly drawn to him. But because of her sociopath tendencies, she knows it could only end in one of two ways. Either he will be the one to free her from her past, or she will be the one to destroy him.**WARNING: Mature content, adult language, graphic sexual content, and disturbing matters may trigger an emotional response. Read at your own risk.**

raia – inactive

Zoe Rowlands

3 Stars⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ok! So I got to the middle of chapter 14 and all the way through the book was a slow read for me which rarely happens! I think my expectations of this book were made very high by reviews and other people! I had to stop reading this book as i couldn’t get into this book.

I have stopped reading this for now and maybe I’ll come back to it to finish it but in the mean time I have literally closed the book!

krissy

miaollie had a very very very intense all consuming love it felt a bit much at times i definitely would have eaten this up a few years ago but i get why people like it

Siena Grace

This wasn’t a bad book, it just felt like it took forever to read. It was missing that feeling that I get when I read books and time doesn’t exist. But still, it wasn’t overall bad.

This book touched me on a whole other level, it was at the same time comforting and disturbing. But even though I loved the characters, I got a little bit bored by the plot. Maybe it’s because I‘m not a romance reader, but I constantly tried to figure out what the point of the plot actually is. I‘m sorry but a story solely about two people and their feelings for one another is not enough to keep me interested 🙉 

Tanya 

Okay wow, I started this book on a whim & it was hard to push through it. I found the beginning to be very slow but then BAM it hit me all in the fucking feels and emotions I experienced with this book was out of this world. There are ALOT OF TRIGGERS IN THIS BOOK. It was hard to read through it all but I couldn’t help wanting to know how the story would unravel. I want to say that Mia & Ollie relationship isn’t a good one because they have become dependent on each other but given the circumstances I would say it’s better that than nothing. This author created a masterpiece I can tell you that & I’ve only read book one..

Aundreya Rich

"I need you to feel for me, and once you do, I need you to stay." 



Stay with me is the first of its kind. That's right... this is not your average love story.

This is a story of a girl so broken she has chosen not to feel. She has tried for death, for vengeance... anything. Nothing worked... until Ollie.

Ollie knew the moment Mia walked into the institute of the broken that she was the one.
The tattooed reckless boy is known for feeling too much... the opposite of his new found attraction, and its his mission to show her feeling love is worth all the rest to resurface.

Before you heal you must break.

 "Stay with me, even when I'm gone." 

I loved this story for the references to some of my all time favorite love stories. I also loved the dark world that Nicole has created.
She has a powerful way of writing words to paper that make you fall in love and break you in two.
Almost Shakespearean and poetic.

Read if you like:
-mental health and the feelings some drown in
-fated and forbidden love
-a Romeo and Juliet vibe
-the notebook
-depth and danger of family
-awareness to victims

I don't normally catch triggers BUT this are prevalent and very front and center for a reason, this may not be for everyone.
TW: pharmaceutical abuse, rape, drugs, alcohol abuse, bullying, suicide, depression, front row to victims of assault, and toxic relationships

why I dropped a star:
honestly the book was fantastic... I think I just craved a bit more happiness... this was a mood for me, not against the book. Either way I cannot wait to continue this series

Rating:
Characters-⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre-Dark Romance
Story-⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Steam- This was a scolding hot shower that never got cold🔥 hot diggity dawg

Song: Adore You by Miley Cyrus

Maxine Reads

This book... Oh. My. God! I fell in love with it from the first pages. At first, I thought Mia is such a genuine character. She was different. Cold. Smart. She could read people very easily. But then... Then I found out Ollie, that was completely different than her, and still the same. 

I don't know. Everything was amazing. Can't wait to read the next book because of the ending 😭 please read this, I promise is it worth it.

A heart-breaking and breath-taking novel that ripped my chest open, grabbed hold of my heart and squeezed until my heart was only beating for Stay With Me.

"I was smart, but most sociopaths were."

*pauses to re-read all the 100+ underlined highlights and proceed to cry*

Mia is a girl who is emotionally detached from everything; she does not feel a thing. Ollie is a boy who feels intensely. 

"I was doomed from day one, Mia."

*pauses for the millionth time, just contemplating this masterpiece* Y'all... I don't even know how to write this review without breaking down. *inhales deeply*

"When I wore my venom on my sleeve, he wore his emotions."

Mia gets sent to Dolor, a last resort place before prison or a mental institution, that serves as a college as well as a mental health center. Mia firmly believes she doesn't have emotions, which is why she lives her life without a care in the world. She's ruthless and vicious to everyone, not caring for the consequences. 

"You could never hide from me. You tried to push me away, but I saw the truth in you."

Ollie is a sweet, caring, and passionate human who took one look at Mia and knew he was gone for her. He does everything in his power to get Mia to feel something. These two characters were complete opposites, but Ollie... UGH! I can't! I feel my heart breaking all over again. He truly embraced all that Mia was and loved her with a passion that I felt deep in my soul.

"Stay with me, even when I'm gone."

Stay With Me consumed my soul. It sunk its claws into my very core and doesn't ever want to let go. It's raw, gritty, dark, catastrophic; it's also a magnificent, well-written, and breath-taking masterpiece that is unpredictable, profound, and soulful. 

"He became my oxygen, stealing my breath only to return it. My lifeline."

Aubrey Erskine

I love when I go into a book thinking I know what it’s going to be about and getting something even more amazing. Stay With Me was such a sad a beautiful story about two broken people finding love in each other. 

Mia is a diagnosed sociopath, but she wasn’t always this way. Something from her past has made her disassociate from the world around her. After one too many incidents she is court ordered to a a psych treatment center in the UK. It’s there she meets Ollie, the man who helps her feel something again.

Never have I ever highlighted so much in my life. The story of Ollie and Mia was dark yet beautifully optimistic. Two people who are so messed up from the world who are able to find comfort in each other. The writing was some of the best I’ve come across in the romance genre. Ollie had these little poetic quotes at the beginning of each chapter that I lived for. I longed to see the world through his eyes, to find beauty in even the most ugly of moments.

Beyond gorgeous writing we get this amazing story about a relationship with so many highs and just as many lows. Did I think the relationship moved too fast and felt a little insta-love? Yes but we’re dealing with two emotionally scarred people and it was believable. Why wouldn’t you cling to the only good thing you’ve ever found in your life? 

So. Much. STEAM. The sexy moments kept on coming and I couldn’t get enough. Fiorina knows how to write some A+ sex scenes. They were so incredibly hot, non-repetitive and not in the least bit cringey. No overuse of pet names or sayings that can sometimes happen. It was definitely a hot and heavy book filled with love. Ollie was adorable and so sweet. Very much “I make love I don’t fu**”

If you’re looking for a cute yet somewhat heartbreaking romance full of sexy scenes I cannot recommend this one enough. Neither Ollie nor Mia is actually crazy, just two people who have been let down by those closest to them and now mentally suffer the consequences. I think I’ve used beautiful one too many times in this review, but it truly is such a beautiful and pure love story.

Kaele Perkins 

** spoiler alert **
           3.5 Stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️.

This stressed me out 😂 I don’t know who thought shipping all the problem teenagers to one school would ever end well. Our main character is numb to all emotion due to childhood trauma and the main guy deals with over intensive emotions and outbursts. Yes we love two damaged characters. So yeah, they balance each other out. There’s a lot of drama so keep that in mind. They ending had me upset. I am so frustrated rn. The book ends on basically an uno reverse of how it started and forgot real life I’m starting book two now.

Ollie in the epilogue 🥺🥺

Stay with Me

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