Posts

Showing posts with the label emotional

Review: Before we were strangers by Renée Carlino

Image
Before we were strangers by Renée Carlino From the  USA TODAY  bestselling author of  Sweet Thing  and  Nowhere But Here  comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back,...

Review: Warrior by Nicole Blanchard

Image
Warrior by Nicole Blanchard I thought it was just one night with my brother’s best friend. The boy I had dreamt about since he gave me my first kiss, under the lights of the Ferris wheel. I knew he was about to leave for a year – no chance for a future. But our one night together would create memories for a lifetime. Our paths crossed again, but I had lied, and he was no longer the man he once was. He was warring against demons. Against the silence that was threatening to swallow him. And I had kept a secret from him, one he would never forgive me for. But my secret was about to be ripped open. Displayed for the world on national news. And I had only one way to repair the damage.  I had to trust the man I lied to.  The man I never got the chance to make a life with.  The only man who could save what we had created together. My rating: *spoiler free* Such a sweet emotional love story, quickly devoured!  Ever since Ben gave Olivi...