Shattered Souls: Zane Presents

by Dywane D. Birch

Book Overview

A thought-provoking, emotionally charged novel that explores the lingering effects of childhood turmoil on four thirty-something friends.

Since meeting in college, Britton, Indera, Damascus, and Chyna have each gone on to success and acclaim. But beneath the surface, all four are struggling with demons, striving to mask the deep emotional wounds they sustained long ago.

Through riveting first-person narratives, Dywane D. Birch...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593091109
• ISBN13: 9781593091101
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Strebor Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

OUR "Friends"

I purchased this book expecting to find a the oh-so familiar "Friends" storyline that I've read too many times before. NOT SO! SHATTERED SOULS IS A PAGE TURNER! Britton, Indera, Damascus and Chyna are the friends WE know or wish WE knew. This book speaks a language true to the hearts of those who love as hard as they work as hard as they party! As each character blossoms throughout the book, you can't help but feel and understand their underlying pain. The author truly creates an oxymoron of shallow and deep - Through these characters he shows how the superficial things in life are just a facade, temporarily masking the hurt until one learns to truly let love in again. This book will leave you wanting more. I can smell a Trilogy in the making, but I'll settle for one sequel if Mr. Birch writes it soon enough. A must read!

Imani Book Club's Reading List

Shattered Souls is an easy and exciting book to read. It touches all your emotions. The story line and details keep you interested and not wanting to put the book down. The characters and storyline are well developed. It is a great read for both males and females.This is a story of four friends who have had their own personal struggles, but they are still able to survive. They deal with their issues and try to accept their past. They are able to express their opinions and feelings and still remain friends. This book gives you an idea of how true friendship really can be.I would and I did recommend it to our book club. This was a really good book.Imani Sister: Mary

Shattered Souls Is Great Fun!

Shattered Souls is a really fun book with 4 really great characters: Britton, Indera, Damascus, and Chyna. I thought that Indera and Damascus had the most fun in the book and they were the characters who I found, at times, to cause me to burst out laughing from their comments and situations. This was an excellent story that starts off kind of on the superficial side but, by the end of the book, you get to much better understand why each character behaves the way he or she does.[...]Excellent story by newcomer Dywane Birch. I was told, by the author himself, that there IS a sequel in the works so fans of this book, like myself, should look forward to the return of these wonderful characters.

Check it out! Shattered Souls is a page-turning novel...!

Check it out! Shattered Souls is a page-turning novel that I finished in two days! On the surface, the four main characters appear to be either ruthless sex-fiends, a passive beauty or a peer counselor who has answers for everyone but himself. But soon the novels uncovers the core of the characters and then you understand why they have become what they are. The "monsters" that they have created within themselves begin to churn deep in their souls, causing them to re-evaluate their actions so that they can move on in life. One by one, they all answer to themselves for their past mistakes and find peace. Britton Landers runs away from his problems to the Dominican Republic but finally decides to face his past ghosts from childhood that made him begin to run in the first place. Indera Fleet, my girl because she gave cheating men what they deserved, is true and real to everyone but somehow she lied and degraded herself with her vengeful nature. Now, I gotta admit, she gave some people what they deserved but she took it to the extreme. We all know a Damascus Miles (well maybe some of us) but this brother finally realizes why he had to have one woman coming in and another going out the back door. Chyna Littles character bored me until she got with "the real" and stepped up to her ungrateful, psychotic daughter only after her daughter scratched the surface of a festering wound within her by calling her white. Definitely a must-read if you enjoy racy, suspenseful novels that have you laughing at one moment and surprised and disgusted the next. -NM

Hot Hot Hot

I recently read Shattered Souls for the second time. I found it sad, funny, and Hot Hot Hot. All I could think about is that a movie must be made based on Shattered Souls ASAP, the characters are outrageous yet real.This is adult reading at it's finest, and I recommend it to everyone.I look forward to reading more from this new young author Dywane D. Birch