A Little Pinprick

Rainey Paxton Series, Book 1

De: Paige Dearth

Narrado por: Lisa Larsen

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 she 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.

©2023 Paige Dearth (P)2023 Podium Audio

Wonderful!!

I love love all of her books and really hope she keeps putting them on audiobooks

Disturbingly good.

While book was filled with disturbing events you can't help root for Rainy. It was a lot at times to read as a mom your instincts are to protect your children and that's what you want to do for Rainy. This is a heartbreaking and heart griping series.

Great boook

I am in my car driving all day for work and I couldn't stop listening. I just wish the next ones in the Rainy Paxton series were on audible.

at what point do we call CPS?!?

This isn't a happy "everything works out in the end" book, so don't go into it wanting that roller coster of emotions.. this pretty much stays down in the gutter. It's dark, and vile. Please check your trigger warnings!
All in all this book is about survival and not letting the ugliness of the world make you bitter! Can't wait to see what Rayni**(idk how it's spelled in the book) does in book 2!

The title caught my eye, very curious what it was about

really enjoyed it, broke my heart in a way to know and hear what this child endured! very heartfelt felt book! hard to put down . well stop listening to it.

Frighteningly true

It’s said that this is a nightmare story that many girls live. It’s so sad and tragic sprinkled with bits of personal victories for Miss Rainy Paxton. I found my own voice through her story however not as tragic as she lived. Excellent book…. The Author really can grab the readers from the very beginning.

Couldn't stop listening!

One of the best audiobooks I've ever listened to. Could not stop listening. Couldn't wait to start the next.

excellent read

This is sad and much like reality of the world we live in. It's a good book.

LOVED IT!

TWs: neonatal drug abuse, descriptive IV drug abuse, withdrawal from heroin in infancy, domestic violence, child abuse, child sexual abuse, extreme neglect, terminal illness, homicide, prostitution, coarse language

POV : 3rd person

I have seen so many conflicting reviews on this book—this series. People either love it or think it’s overly dramatic and not enough time is spent developing Rainey’s character. They say the author spends too much time hopping from one horror in her life to the next.

I get personal in my reviews because most of the books I read evoke a strong emotional reaction in me. I feel like we don’t get to know Rainey on a deeper level because when you live that kind of life (in whatever capacity) you spend more of your life surviving moment to moment and not developing a deep awareness of self or a soothing self-care ritual..

Survival is all Rainey Paxton has known: from the first breaths of life until the end of the book, all she can do is survive the utterly craptastic circumstances she finds herself in. There are very rarely happy endings in stories like this.

incredible writing, inspiring journey through hell

I could not quit listening to this book, Rainy's journey through life from birth to her teenage years. Her pain, her fears, her strength, and her resilience, holding onto what little hope she could. Her character and persistent fight to survive and hold onto the ones she loves in memory and in life is the amazing message for others that have to face such abuse throughout life. My own experiences and hearing this authors stories helps me to understand and work with children that have face their own hell in their short live. It isa difficult subject to hear or read, but it is happening all over, all around us and these children need as much understanding and love as they can get. Paige Dearth has been one of my favorite authors since I read her first book and listening to them now has been great because I have not had as much time to sit and actually read. The narrator did an incredible job reading as well. Helped to immerse the readers into little Rainy Paxton's life. I've already begun the second book of this series.