Un nuevo corazón (Butterfly in Frost) - Sylvia Day (Suspense)

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“Why settle for what’s available instead of what I want?”

“I wasn’t expecting to ever feel this way again, Teagan,” he says. “It’s intense for me. You’re telling me to ignore it, but I can’t. And if you’re being honest, you’ll admit you can’t, either.”

“You’re broken. I’m broken. We don’t throw the pieces away. We fit them together until they make something new.”

“Save me,” I tell him.
He grins. “I’m working on it.”

I’ll be holding her close until I take my last breath

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Reviews by the Wicked Reads Review Team

Ruthie – ☆☆☆☆☆
I am reluctant to say anything about this book, other than you must read it – and I would suggest that you do it before someone’s review tells you too much.

Two people drawn to each other in such a strong way, yet clearly both so damaged, makes for an abrupt introduction to them, but you absolutely need to have faith and read right to the end.

It works. I plan on reading it again in the next few days and adding it to my reread list.


Veronica – ☆☆☆☆
Garrett moves in next door to Teagan at a time in her life when she is dealing with depression. We quickly learn that Garrett is dealing with his own heartbreaking loss. From their first meeting, the chemistry between Garrett and Teagan is strong. Knowing how Teagan is struggling with life, I wanted her to grab a hold of Garrett and just enjoy herself as much as possible for however long she could.

The description in this story is beautiful. And not just the words used to describe the stunning location and views from their homes, but things like the food, Garrett’s paintings, the erotic images of the couple’s physical relationship. This book is luscious.

Butterfly in Frost is wonderful story of love and it is one you will want to re-read as soon as you finish it so you can experience it again.


Sarah – ☆☆☆☆
3.5 stars

This story is a whirlwind of love at first sight attraction complicated by two damaged characters, both wary of risking their hearts again. This is angsty, passionate romance writing that slips into melodrama more often than not. Both Garrett and Teagan are emotional and somewhat irrational from the start. Difficult past experiences makes Teagan cautious but she can’t deny the attraction that simmers between her and Garrett from the start.

The melodramatic writing style is something readers will love or hate. Fans of Ella Frank or JR Ward might love the overwriting and the brooding, reflective characters but it wasn’t a perfect fit for me. I found the flowery, angsty bedroom scenes almost more comical than sexy and I had to roll my eyes at some of the more impassioned dialogue.

While the heightened emotions and the charm fit artist Garrett, Teagan is supposed to be a scientist and the angst doesn’t always fit her character. I’m not sure I really came to like Teagan and I’m also not sure I was supposed to. She’s a closed book. Her relationship with Roxy is light and superficial but as she doesn’t really share anything of herself with Roxy or Garrett, it is hard to feel anything for her. As a reality TV star, Teagan’s materialism and name-dropping make sense but I wanted to believe she was more than just superficially pleasant and attractive.

Garrett is also something of an enigma – though he is less closed off than Teagan. His initial full-on flirtation with Teagan is slightly frightening and the way he kinda forces himself into her life felt a little off to me. He’s beautiful and charming but from the start, I felt there was something of Jayne Eyre’s Mr. Rochester about him – all charm, secrets, and the ex wife he doesn’t mention. He’s more relatable as he starts to open up but his actions and emotions are really extreme at times.

The pace of this story is a whirlwind. Immediate attraction quickly becomes instalove and I found the speed and force of Garrett’s dramatic confessions of commitment a little terrifying. There’s a jarring revelation at the very end which changes the whole style, tone, and genre of the story and it didn’t quite work for me. Again, without spoilers, it is difficult to explain my reaction in more detail.


Mary J – ☆☆☆☆
3 1/2 stars

I'm not sure how I feel about this book. The premise is something I've rarely come across and I'm not sure if it works or not.

There are a lot of questions that are unanswered for me and I would really have liked to know more about Garrett's son. During most of the book, I thought that something had happened to both his son and his wife. When I found out that wasn't the case, I was very surprised.

Teagan is a very complex character and her depression is all too real. You get a feeling that there is something deeper to her angst other than a divorce, but you can't figure out what. Was it her stint on reality TV? Was it being betrayed by the person she loved?

The end is very much a surprise and explains a lot about both characters.

The cameo with Eva Cross was a nice surprise.

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‘And his face…that work of art. I see the cracks in the beauty, as if his perfect mask has slipped, revealing something unguarded and agonized and even more beautiful beneath.’

‘And just like that, the sadness dissipates. That’s his magic. It awes me to think I might wield that same power over him.’

“I’m going to become necessary to you”

“I need you more than I need anything else. I’d even give up painting for you, if that’s what it takes”

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Entrevista de Sylvia Day en EW.


Sylvia Day explains how Dr. Pimple Popper helped inspire her latest novel
By Maureen Lee Lenker April 29, 2019 at 10:00 AM EDT
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For fans of Sylvia Day, who rose to fame with her best-selling erotic Crossfire series, it’s been a long couple of years.

The author hasn’t released a new title since 2016’s One with You, the conclusion to the five-book Crossfire series and the epic love story between Gideon Cross and Eva Tramell.

Day tells EW the multi-year break was not intentional, but a lot of personal challenges took precedence these last few years. “We had a lot of personal things happen in my family over the course of that three years,” she says. “Both of my children went through surgery and my mom was diagnosed with lymphoma. It took my focus and I needed to put that to my family, so I did.”

But now, Day is back with Butterfly in Frost, a new novella that introduces readers to two new characters, Dr. Teagan Ransom and artist Garret Frost. As with all of Day’s books, they exist in the same world as her Crossfire series, and readers will quickly note ties to Gideon and Eva — but it’s new territory as well, allowing Day to explore some of her favorite themes, namely romance and redemption.

Day says the book is certainly not immune to the travails of her personal life. “Everything that happens in a writer’s personal life affects the writing to a certain extent,” she explains. “That’s definitely the case with me. In the case of this novella, I had three or four different starts before I got to the one. Many of them had a tendency to be extremely dark…Books aren’t supposed to be depressing like that, especially in the beginning. So, it was trying to find a way to use the emotional outlet of writing but in a way that was still accessible to readers and still entertaining and fun for readers to read.”

EW exclusively debuts the cover for Day’s new title, out August 27 from Montlake Romance, below. And, we also talked to Day about the unlikely reality TV series that inspired a key plot point, why she fell in love with this cover instantly, and more — after the cover image below.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Tell me more about Butterfly in Frost and what inspired these characters?
SYLVIA DAY: That’s a little tough. I really can’t share a lot about it when I talk about it until after somebody’s finished it. As with the Crossfire series, it’s designed to be read twice. For readers to have a particular experience with the novel on the first go, and then to have a secondary experience with it when they read it again. But all of my books feature survivors. Every writer has a particular topic that is important to them that flavors everything that they write. And for me, I like to write about people who are surviving.

In this case, Teagan and Garret are both surviving the death of a dream. They had planned and expected their life to go in a particular way, and it doesn’t happen, so what do you do at that point? When something you’ve dreamed of and held so close to your heart for so long is no longer viable for you? You have to reinvent the way you look at life and reinvent yourself, and that’s really what their story is about. And, of course, finding each other and being able to help each other through that process.

Do you feel it’s a departure from the Crossfire series or will it still excite those readers? Within the first few pages, we know the heroine has ties to Gideon and Eva.
In general, I write a particular type of hero and I write a particular type of heroine. So, it should be evident to them when they pick it up and read it, “Oh this is a Sylvia Day reading experience.” Those things [that] flavor a writer’s work, it’s just a natural part of my author voice and something my readers can connect to no matter what it is I’m writing. It’s very different from the Crossfire series in a lot of ways. And yet, those things that transfer from one book to another will definitely be there and readers will be able to see that. Even though it’s not a Crossfire novel, and these are new characters they haven’t met before, I expect that they’ll go, “Oh, yep, I’ve stepped right back into a Sylvia Day world.”

Your heroine was once a reality TV star – was there a particular show that inspired you to delve into that world?
Dr. Pimple Popper. She had to be someone who was well-known in order for Eva Cross to continue working with her on such a huge project for a new product launch like that…Using an unknown would not work for Eva and the way she runs her business, so that was the driving force behind it. The other was that I’m a big fan of the Dr. Pimple Popper show even though it’s really disgusting. You see that doctor’s compassion and her desire to help her patients, and I just find that really admirable.

With your military background, I’m sure you have fodder to write a thriller, but was there ever any question in your mind that romance would be the genre you chose to write in?
Never. Never. When I was 12 years old, I had an assignment in one of my English classes where we had to write an essay on what we wanted to be when we grew up. My essay was on how I wanted to be a romance novelist. That was age 12. So it was always what I was going to be doing.

What was your teacher’s reaction to that?
He kept me after class. (laughs) I was like, “Oh no, I’m in trouble now.” Because he was a very stern teacher, and I’m like, “I’m going to get a huge lecture after this.” But no, he kept me after class, and he said, “I wanted to discuss your essay. I don’t know about the romance thing and I can’t say you can make a living writing, because most writers are struggling. That said, I give more writing assignments to this class than any other class just because I enjoy reading your work so much. So I hope you continue to pursue writing whether it’s romance or something else, and I hope that you succeed because I think you’re a very good writer.”

That was a lot better ending to that story than I was expecting.
Right?! Much better than detention, let me call your mom, and so on. Agree. It could’ve gone much worse.

Your mom gave you your first romance novel though, right? So she wouldn’t care?
No. absolutely not. My mom is a huge romance reader. That’s how I got into reading romance. She handed me a romance novel and she said, I” want you to read this book and then I want you to marry a man like that.”

Your books have always dealt with survivors of trauma and assault – but now #MeToo has taken off since your last book has come out. Do you feel that’s impacted your work and romance, or do you think they were already doing the work there?
Absolutely, I think it’s changing a lot of things. A lot of women were not even aware that some of the difficulties they were facing had anything to do with their gender. Or the way we’ve been perceived in business, in personal life, in sexuality and everything else. For a lot of women, it was kind of a wake-up call to say, “Oh wait a minute, I’ve been dealing with that my whole life. I just figured that’s what you had to deal with as a woman. I had no idea that this is wrong, and we should be stopping this. We should be changing it.” Hopefully, we’ll see more of that in the books that we read.

There are a lot of authors who are lawyers and doctors and rocket scientists and environmental scientists, extremely smart, wonderful women who have been writing extremely smart, wonderful women. But there were some things that were being written that were really not empowering for women, and maybe not something we’d want our young girls to read. For example, the book that my mom gave me. I ended up finding that book on eBay years later. This book featured “forced seduction,” where the heroine is saying “no” and the hero is absolutely certain if he can turn her on enough, he can get her to say “yes.” That’s happening less and less frequently. But of course, that depends on how plugged in the author is to what’s going on in the world, what they’re paying attention to, what their own personal values are, whether they can relate to what’s happening in the #MeToo movement. But it’s going to change things in our entire world and the way we perceive writing about women and their relationships with men.

What was the name of that book?
It was Desert Hostage, so I can’t say they didn’t tell me what was going to happen in the title.

You were president of RWA. The organization is facing some steep challenges right now. What are your thoughts on that and where they go from here?
I was president for a year and prior to that, I was on the board for a couple of years. During that time, the RITA contest was something that was on our plate. The organization had hired a consultant to come in and tell us how we could revamp the contest to be not just fair, but also at the end of the day, whoever won, we were absolutely certain that was the best book that was published that year. Some of those suggestions were implemented; most of them weren’t for varying reasons as to whether the change he suggested was applicable for our organization or not. We’ve always been aware that the RITA contest is a challenge, and I hope they find a solution for it. I imagine it’s probably exhausting for them at this point in time, but they’re fighting the good fight. It should be a contest that celebrates the best in the genre and some books are not being selected for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of the book and that’s an issue.

You’ve been with several different publishers over the years – what was it about Amazon and Montlake that appealed to you here? I think a lot of people are still getting used to the idea of them having an imprint.
The reason why I’ve written for a lot of different publishers is because I’ve always made it well-known that I am a working writer. If you want to work with me, you’ve just got to pick up the phone and give me a call and we’ll see what we can do. Some writers stick with the same publisher their whole life. That’s great if it makes them happy to do that. For me, that always makes me feel like it’s the old Hollywood studio system and you’re locked in somewhere…In the case of Amazon, they took me up on it. They picked up the phone one day last year, and they called my agent and said, “We really love Sylvia. We love her work, and we would love to be able to work on something with her.”

This cover is very similar to many of yours in its focus on one prominent object and color scheme – is that an aesthetic you love? How much input do you have?
Working with Amazon, they provide a cover art requisition form and that’s where the author can specify what it is that they want and don’t want. In the case of this book, I gave my usual mandate which is, “Please don’t put models on the cover”. A cover should be eye-catching. It should hint at something that’s going on in the story, but it should also allow the reader to have their own imagination about what’s happening. I like to be as vague as possible, be as beautiful as possible, and in this case, Amazon followed what I suggested in the cover form and presented that to me along with a few other designs. I immediately gravitated toward this one, and I thought it was just absolutely stunning and beautiful. I look at this and it makes me happy. Hopefully, when readers pick it up they’ll feel the same way. With my cover blurbs and my cover images, I feel like too much information is not always the best route to go. I try to give you something beautiful and something that evokes a certain emotional response when you see it, and that ties into the story in some way.

In terms of the ones you had to choose from, what about this one made it the automatic yes?
The colors and the sparkly lights in the background. It just reminds me of being outside in the twilight of summer with some of those string lights hanging and that sense of joy and comfort — that’s the mental picture it puts in my head. That’s why I loved it. There were other options that were darker – darker backgrounds, darker imagery, darker fonts, and for me, dark was not the way I wanted to go with those cover. I wanted something that spoke of hope and this is what that cover says to me. Hopeful.

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Otra entrevista en EW en la que Sylvia Day habla de sus lecturas.

Butterfly in Frost author Sylvia Day on the stories that changed her life
By Maureen Lee Lenker August 27, 2019 at 10:30 AM EDT
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Sylvia Day is in love with a good love story.

The romance author, who rose to fame with her best-selling Crossfire series, read her first romance novel at a young age, and she’s never looked back — Day published her first novels in the mid-2000s and since then has built an empire with her erotic romances, hitting best-seller lists with everything from contemporary to paranormal stories.

After taking a break following the conclusion of her mega-popular Crossfire series, Day is back with Butterfly in Frost, a new novella that introduces readers to two new characters, Dr. Teagan Ransom and artist Garret Frost. As with all of Day’s books, they exist in the same world as her Crossfire series, and readers will quickly note ties to Gideon and Eva — but it’s new territory as well, allowing Day to explore some of her favorite themes, namely romance and redemption.

Ahead of the Aug. 27 debut of her latest title, EW delves into Day’s personal bookshelf to get a glimpse at the books that have inspired, intrigued, and shaped her as a writer.

My favorite book as a child
Anything by Shel Silverstein. I was a huge fan of his — A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Giving Tree. The Giving Tree would probably be up there at the top. That was the first time I had my heart broken.

A book I read in secret as a teenager
It’s kind of in secret. It was called Desert Hostage. My mom gave it to me when I was 12. She told me to read it, but I don’t think she wanted me to read it all night long. I was addicted to it. I couldn’t put it down. I did the whole thing where I went out to the garage and I got a flashlight and I hid under the covers and I read it that way.
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A book that changed my life
[Desert Hostage] made me decide that I wanted to be a romance novelist, so I guess it would also be that one.

A book that really cemented me as a writer
Something from Lisa Kleypas. It would have been one of her Onyx titles before she moved to Avon [Kleypas began her career publishing with Onyx]. You can’t get them anymore. I still have a few of them. They’re my treasures because she never reissued them. I would have to look up what their names were. They would be the original Lisa Kleypas historicals that she wrote for Onyx [titles include Where Passion Leads and Forever My Love].

A book that I’ve read over and over and over again
Kathleen Woodiwiss — her old novels like A Rose in Winter, definitely Shanna. I named my daughter Shanna after that book. Those books I’ve read twice. As far as re-reading, that’s about as far as I’ve gone. There’s so many great books out there that there’s always a new one to read. Even though I have my favorites that I keep on my shelf, I remember them fondly, but I don’t pick them up and read them again.

A classic that I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never read
The Brothers Karamazov. The reason why I’m embarrassed is because it was a gift. It was given to me by my step-mother. She wrote this lovely inscription inside there. It was just beautifully packaged and gifted. I have it on my shelf. It’s a treasure to me because she gave it to me, but I tried to read it and it wasn’t happening. I’ve never admitted to her that I never read it.
Penguin Classics

A book I’ve pretended to have read
Catcher in the Rye — but here’s the thing, I did read it. I could not for the life of me tell you anything about that story. Nothing. I remember nothing about it, but I did read it. I’m telling you the truth when I say that I read it but then it’s kind of like not really because I can’t remember any of it.

A book people might be surprised to learn that I loved
The Bad Place by Dean Koontz. If you haven’t read that, you’ve got to read it. That is the craziest, wackiest book I’ve ever read in my life. It is out there. It’s really nuts.

A book I consider to be grossly overrated
The Catcher in the Rye. [Laughs] Because I can’t remember it. It was so unmemorable. Nothing. Nothing about it at all.

A book I wish I’d written
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. There are so many quotes from those novels that I would love to tattoo on my body. They just resonate with me. If only I had written them.

The first romance novel I ever read was…
That was Desert Hostage, and the author was Diane Dunaway.

Favorite literary love story?
Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke from the In Death series [by J.D. Robb]. They’re probably tied with Raphael and Elena from Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunter Series.

My literary crush is…
It would be Raphael [from Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunter series]. He has wings. He’s an archangel. You can’t beat that.

The sexiest book I’ve ever read…
It’d probably be The Fifth Favor [by Shelby Reed]. It’s all sexual tension. It’s an entire book of seething sexual tension. It takes so long for them to get to the point where they actually culminate that relationship. You’re just hanging on by your fingernails. That to me is so sexy — the anticipation.
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The last book that made me swoon was…
It was the last Guild Hunter novel by Nalini Singh. I believe it was Archangel’s Prophecy. That one actually broke my heart because Elena lost her wings. That really sucked.

My favorite movie adaptation of a book
Gone With the Wind. I love it. I have a framed poster of Gone With the Wind in my house too. It’s so good. We don’t make movies like that anymore. I wish we would — those big, grand sweeping historicals with those huge, wide shots and those epic locations. We just don’t [do that] anymore.

The last book I gave as a gift
I obviously can’t count mine. [Laughs] We just got a box of author copies for Butterfly in Frost. Of course, immediately the texts started coming in, “I want a copy. Send me a copy.” We sent out a bunch of those. The last book that I gave as a gift I would say would be Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes. That is the sequel to You, which I think a lot of people might be familiar with from the Lifetime/Netflix show that was just done. I gave it to a friend after gifting her You because I wanted her to keep going with the story. She’s as addicted to it as I am. We’re so excited that there’s two more to come.

Have I ever bought my own book in a bookstore?
Yes, if I have to. Recently, a gal that I had worked with wanted to gift an autographed copy for a friend of hers. I did not have any copies of the book where I was at the time, so I had to stop by a bookstore and pick it up. My son, because the books have my big author photo on the back, he was like, “When you put the book on the counter, put it face up and let’s see if they notice that it’s you.” I’m like, “I’m not going to do that. That would be embarrassing.” He grabs the book, and he puts it on the counter face up, the back side up. No idea. Nothing. I was laughing so hard. The guy at the counter was probably like, “Why is this chick laughing at me?”

The book I’m reading right now
Connections in Death by J.D. Robb. In preparation for Vendetta in Death, which I actually have sitting right here in front of me. It comes out in about two weeks but I have an [advance review copy]. But I can’t get into it until I finish this one.

The book I consider to be the gold standard in romance
I always lean toward the J.D. Robb but those kind of straddle the line between romance and police procedural, which is fine. But a gold standard romance. If you’re going to put a poster on a shelf and say, “Listen, if this is the only romance you’re ever going to read, if this is going to be the epitome of the genre for you,” it’s going to be one of Nora Roberts. She writes paranormal, she writes historical, she writes contemporaries, she writes suspense. Really, depending on what your flavor is, there is a gateway for you.

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Sylvia Day Speaks On Her Novel, "Butterfly in Frost"
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Publicado el 3 sept. 2019

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De lo que he ido leyendo por aquí y por allá sobre esta novela corta, deduzco que no es suspense; más bien es contemporánea con algo de erotismo. En mi opinión, y falta de leerla, quitaría lo de suspense. Al parecer la trama tiene un giro que no se ve venir, pero que no es suspense.

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