{ "rating": 5.0, "title": "Blend In?🦎 Stand Out? 🔥 Survive.", "text": "How do you grasp what you don’t understand, and how can you trust what you think you believe?

“There is great power in remaining unseen. When you can remain invisible while in plain sight, you hold great power over those who stand out and demand attention. Camouflage is needed for survival, and not just in the wild.” 🌿

When Momzilla (Omzi) displays her psychotic tendencies and sadistic behaviors through physical abuse, manipulation, broken glass, knife wounds, starvation, isolation, and forced hypothermia, readers quickly come to learn what a true villain is. Residential treatment centers, blackouts, foster homes, and hallucinations haunt Nora relentlessly, but she finds solace through art class, exercise, and the positive influences of Frida Khalo, Georgia O’Keefe, and the calming presence of companion animals.

When her horror-ridden hometown triggers an avalanche of self-sabotaging behaviors and the repulsive resurgence of several repressed memories, she realizes that firefighters and first responders are especially likely to succumb to the painful effects of freshly inflicted traumas. Her trusty work colleague, caring neighbor, and trauma therapist don’t know about her turmeric lattes, barista crushes, and anonymous sex romps, but she must face the hidden truths of her dangerously impulsive excursions when her subconsciously compartmentalized worlds begin to slowly collide.

I absolutely loved this author’s engaging writing style, caustic wit, unapologetic honesty, and descriptive rhetoric, and I appreciated encountering her laudable talent for weaving together transformative timeframes and believable predilections. I would highly recommend this novel to anyone who has ever faced an inner darkness, suffocating uncertainty, or a search for something safe. I voraciously read this entire book in one day, and I genuinely couldn’t put it down. The abusive and unspeakable depravities might be hard for some to stomach, but humanity is capable of some truly horrific things. We all cope in whatever ways we can, but many secret upbringings produce very broken souls. Some of the mantras within these pages will continue to resonate with me as my future days unfold: “I have not come this far to only come this far.”", "images": [ { "small_image_url": "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81utqi1Sr4L._SL256_.jpg", "medium_image_url": "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81utqi1Sr4L._SL800_.jpg", "large_image_url": "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81utqi1Sr4L._SL1600_.jpg", "attachment_type": "IMAGE" } ], "asin": "1736241834", "parent_asin": "1736241834", "user_id": "AFTLUVGQWKW6XSQ5TB6UER5Q263A", "timestamp": 1624161632259, "helpful_vote": 1, "verified_purchase": false, "review_id": "1624161632259_AFTLUVGQWKW6XSQ5TB6UER5Q263A", "date": "2021-06-20", "image_files": [ "Image_005_01.jpg" ], "product_meta": { "main_category": "Books", "title": "Chameleon Girl", "average_rating": 4.7, "rating_number": 56, "features": [ "Adapt and thrive--this is the way of the Chameleon.With a less than idyllic childhood shrouded behind her, Nora Horvath finds confidence and strength in the life she’s created for herself. Needs, not names, are what interests this self-possessed woman, and that’s exactly the way she likes it. Between her hobbies, her work, and her intimate circle of confidants, there is literally nothing Nora desires from the outside world--let alone a long forgotten one.As a firefighter, Nora knows better than most that heat rises. After a terrifying rescue jostles free the memories of a traumatic and abusive past, Nora is forced to pursue the demons who beckon her back into the shadowy realm of this new trauma. As she ascends into the inferno of her past, she begins to discover just how much heat she can handle. Feverishly, Nora attempts to maintain her tight grip on the things she holds dear, and considers everything else to be... trivial. After all, a chameleon only changes color when it’s frightened, and nothing can rattle the likes of Nora Horvath. Not even the truth. Stunning, powerful, and complex, Chameleon Girl is a novel so big it occupies dual worlds. Igniting passion and intrigue, this psychological thriller transcends the genre as a champion of emotional intelligence and feminist narrative. Journey into the darkest and most complex aspects of the human experience as you witness this incredible cast of characters change, adapt, and show their true colors in Liz Ferro’s bewitching debut novel. Grab your copy today!\"Gripping, funny, crazy, sexy, masochistic, voyeuristic, and achingly beautiful\" ~", "Madras Book Guru", "\"A really powerful read\" ~", "Shadowplay\"", "Captivating and fast paced!\" ~", "Jenn Prior,", "Jenn The Moody Reader" ], "description": [], "price": 14.27, "images": [ { "large": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/417cN4NrgYL._SX311_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg", "variant": "MAIN" } ], "videos": [], "store": "Liz Ferro (Author)", "categories": [ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Genre Fiction" ], "details": { "Publisher": "Library Tales Publishing, Incorporated (May 20, 2021)", "Language": "English", "Paperback": "205 pages", "ISBN 10": "1736241834", "ISBN 13": "978-1736241837", "Item Weight": "7.4 ounces", "Dimensions": "5 x 0.47 x 8 inches" }, "parent_asin": "1736241834", "bought_together": null } }