Book Review: As Long As Love Lasts by Jea Hawkins
I wanted to love this as much as everyone else. One of the reviews likened this to ‘Letters Never Sent’ which is one of my favorites. This just wasn’t it for me.
I wanted to love this as much as everyone else. One of the reviews likened this to ‘Letters Never Sent’ which is one of my favorites. This just wasn’t it for me.
Intense moments Full of angst. Couldn’t get enough of it. Sadie is a 30 something single mother of a 17 year old daughter, Destiny, who had just become a professional tennis player.
Second Read It felt even deeper the second time around. I was able to really pay attention to the details and it made it even more moving, if that’s possible. Too good.
This was such a wonderful and heartwarming story. I choked up at times and felt uplifted in others. There is a kid that is Central to the plot but not one of those annoying baby talk and whiny kind. Gabe was an ‘old soul’ with some spunky attitude. A tragic loss in Gabes’s life forces […]
Louie is a butch songwriter that leaves Chicago to pursue her dreams in Nashville. Right upon arrival, she hits it off with a talented young singer and decides to room with him. Heather is a scout for a major music label, recently promoted after her mentor was fired for being gay. She has to live […]
It was hard for me to get into this book at first. It was difficult for me to follow for some reason. But after the first chapter, it found a rhythm. Jessica is a corporate tech leader who finds herself at the center of a massive systems failure that causes a disastrous drop in company […]
The first half of this book was very good. It even invoked a nice tear fest. Val works in a library. Because of her experience as a foster kid, she decides that she would like to begin fostering children. During the weeks of training, she meets and becomes interested in the instructor, Paige. However, there […]
I couldn’t get enough of this book. Meredith is a Senator. Stevie is a Public Defender. Their paths cross when Meredith has to question Stevie in regards to a minimum sentencing rule. Stevie wants more time to persuade the Senator in her favor so invites her to dinner. Thus begins their complex and challenging courtship. […]
Dex has been in love with her best friend, Grace, pretty much all her life. She really struggles once Grace marries Brent. This is a story of the lengths it takes to try and move on to be available to someone else. It was unique in that many stories with this theme, you expect to […]
Second read / listen. So everyone knows that I’m having a difficult time with audio books. But this one was extremely well done. Thanks to those who suggested I should listen to this one to get out of the bad narrator rut. And I don’t know if it was the narration or what, but I […]