From Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards, November 4, 2020: THE ADORED by T.R. Connolly

"Connolly has created a fully-realized, sweeping epic of a book. The story is intricate, well plotted, and satisfying. This book is BIG - in terms of character cast, setting, time lapse, and commentary. A common way the author set up a chapter was to start with the macro view: a big-scale history or a sweeping shot of a setting. Nearly every time it was brilliantly done.

I loved how the book took on large societal issues like racial equity, the prison system, the overreach of corporations. It was always personal, real, and visceral. The voice and writing style are outstanding!"
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The Adored is a story rich in character, as seven wealthy best-friends come of age. But a problem lingers: one of them committed a murder as a teenager and an innocent young black man is serving time for it. Along the way these seven men from the 1% have starkly different lives but remain connected by an umbilical cord stretching back to the privileged life that began in preschool. The salvation for the men is their women: Valerie McGuire, the brilliant Wall Street analyst, Santa Alba, the beauty queen of Coamo, Puerto Rico, Kathy Jackson, the police officer from Stamford, and the lustrous Silvana DeLuna, the washer woman of San Blas. Whether it is aiding a soul locked behind the 30 foot walls of Auburn Prison or filling the emptiness of a Navy Seal in Afghanistan these women are strong, intelligent and loyal. They help men overcome their devotion to making money the old fashioned way: by trading on insider information, and they expose the insidious corruption in the financial markets.

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• Publication Date: February 18, 2015
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• Print Length: 486 Pages
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