NetGalley: A Little PinPrick by Paige Dearth



Publisher: Fiction with Meaning LLC
Published: 7/15/2022
Pages: 449
Genre: Adult
Review: NetGalley


Rainey Paxton was born addicted to heroin.

In the fragile first hours of Rainey’s life, hospital doctors and nurses fight to keep her alive. Several months later she is released into her parents’ custody, where the baby is forced to live on neglect and tainted breast milk.

Constrained in her home, infested with drug addicts and drifters, Rainey’s drug-addicted parents leave little hope for her protection.

While Rainey is still an infant, her aunt Sophie visits her and finds the baby dirty and hungry. A bond forms between the two until tragedy strikes. Rainey is alone again until her sister, Ivy, is born and the child breathes new life into Rainey’s small, isolated world.

But her parents have another plan, and with no one there to intervene on Rainey’s behalf she must make sacrifices to feed her parents’ cravings and to keep her sister safe.

Follow Rainey’s journey from a house crawling with junkies to the violent confines of a juvenile detention center where she finds friendship, and learns fearlessness from the most unexpected people.

**WARNING** 18+ Readers Only. Graphic content and subject matter.







“I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.”

How can you truly hate a book but love it simultaneously? 
This is this book for me. I loved it, but I hated the characters that treated Rainey and her sister like crap. I had so many feelings for this book that I believe this may have truly been the first book I had to put down at certain times just to get a breath in so I didn't throw my kindle. My heart broke so much for Rainey and her sister. 
It makes you question how people let things like this go on. Our system is flawed; our system sucks, and it needs to be fixed. Even though this is a story, how often does this truly happen? I am sure it happens a lot. 
At such a young age, Rainey knows her parents are not the best and that the drugs they take are horrible. She doesn't want to live there; she wants to be with her Aunt Sophie. Yet, she can't; we just see how heartbreaking this is. When the one person who is the sunlight and the joy of her life can no longer be there for her, she has to grow up, and sadly Rainey has grown up way too much. She finds herself in horrible situations but at no fault of her own. She is learning how to survive more than she should. I love this author's work, just how real it seems and how much you feel about the characters. This book will give you that and more. There is also a cliffhanger, and you want to know what will happen next. Just be prepared is all I will say. 









Paige Dearth was a victim of child abuse. She writes real-life horror and refers to her work as: Fiction with Mean-ing. Stories teach lessons and Paige hopes that awareness through fiction creates prevention.

Paige will continue to write stories about young children who need to overcome adversity and then take you on their life’s journey. Her goal through fiction is to get readers so invested in the story and characters you will become one with the tome. You will shed tears of joy, grief, rage and horror. You will be emotionally invested in the outcome. She wants her readers to be thinking about the story long after they have turned the last page.

Some may say why write about such controversial and difficult subjects. Paige feels that if we look the other way and don’t address society’s fears no real growth will ever happen. As Ben Franklin said: “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” Society should not look the other way because a subject seems too difficult to handle, just remember her books are fiction but people live through these real-life horrors.

So buckle up and take a Paige Dearth life changing journey. It may take you into a new world of renewed enlightenment to make a difference and change the life of a child.

Paige lives in Plymouth Meeting, PA with her husband Mike (who was portrayed as Remo in her debut novel, Believe Like A Child). This novel has been the catalyst for her writing platform. The Beginning of Believe Like A Child is based on Paige’s real-life horror however, the remainder of the novel is fiction. It is the darkest version of who she could have become, had fate not intervened in the nick of time. It presents a fine balance between what lives on in her imagination and the evil that lurks in the real world.





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