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BRIAN WELLER is a haunted man. Now, after fifteen years, the guilt and anger overwhelm him. Vowing to make things right, Brian arranges a book-signing tour that will take him back to Boston and then is forced to postpone it when his wife dies unexpectedly.
Joanna is disappointed that he is postponing the trip, but she understands and wishes him well. Three months later, he leaves for Boston. He is eager to see Joanna again, but unsure where their reunion will lead.
One thing is certain Ruby is still a powerful and jealous man, as the e-mail Brian receives from him so eloquently attests: WE HAD A DEAL. LEAVE HER ALONE! During his flight to Boston, Brian relives his relationship with Joanna; and she is unlike any woman he has ever known: beautiful, free-spirited, and utterly committed to her art. Through his love for her, Brian discovers and nurtures the embryo of his own art, drawing from her an inspiration that will someday carry him to the heights of literary stardom.
But Ruby, an influential real estate developer, has them watched, waiting for the chance to tear their love asunder. The choice Ruby gives him is simple Refuse, and lose everything. Back in the present, Brian's reunion with Joanna is warm, yet fraught with underlying tension. Joanna wants so much to know the truth about why he left her so many years before, but Brian cannot bear to shatter her world, a world that now includes, Zack, her fifteen-year-old son.
Though he is the image of his mother, he is so much like Brian, a sensitive, talented writer bursting with ideas. Could it be? In a moment of unguarded pain, Brian confesses the awful truth to Joanna, how Ruby forced him to leave her. It is a confession that rocks her to the core. In the meantime, Erik Ruby dispatches his private investigator, CARY MOSLEY, to bring Brian to his office, intent on ending the situation once and for all.
Their confrontation is a slow-burning fuse, and just as it is about to explode into violence, Joanna appears bearing proof of her husband's duplicity.
Furious that Ruby would reduce her life to a business transaction, she tells him their marriage is over and she's leaving for good. Realizing that he's lost her forever, Ruby walks out, leaving Joanna and Brian together at last QUARTER FINALIST in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Competition.
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Feature Thriller For sale pp. Two hearts in need of love. A burning question unanswered. A secret dark enough to see them both destroyed. Brian Weller is a man at the edge of despair. Haunted by the accident that claimed the life of his son and left his wife terminally comatose, the bestselling author finds his career stalled and his muse silent. Boston artist Joanna Richman has settled into the comfortable routine of a perfectly boring existence.
Love can be a mysterious thing and while I know cheating is not good or ethical, can true love really forever hide from it? Even emotionally? Can we truly get rid of a past love, a love that had such impact on our lives? Great thanks to Bill Walker for sending me his book to read after I mentioned I wanted to pick up a copy. he shares a bit behind his story. Before I say anything, since I really liked this book, I want to get one small thing I disliked out of the way.
There were some points at which I felt slightly awkward reading the book because the dialogue just seemed so outdated. Which is weird considering it's a new book. There were times when I literally pushed the book away from me thinking "WHO says things like that?!? Maybe I just talk differently. Also, Joanna, who is supposed to be a vegetarian Buddhist, wears fur. Which I thought was weird. Anyhow, now that THAT's out of the way, I can say that this book really was a diamond in the rough.
Bill Walker's beautiful and descriptive but simplistic prose brings alive the feelings Brian, the protagonist, suffers in the face of the tragedy through which he suffers. More than anything, though, it brings alive and renders believable the idea that two people could really love each other eternally, even if circumstances change or aren't what is needed to fuel a romance.
Brian Weller, a writer, and Joanna, an artist who is engaged to another man, fall in love, and while the story of them isn't necessarily something special, Bill Walker's telling of it is.
So much so that their separation no, I promise, that's' not a spoiler , when it occurs, is heartbreaking, leaving the reader wondering why life just has to be unfair like that sometimes.
Both Joanna and Brian are endearing characters that the reader can't help but care about, and their relationship is so sweet and fresh and new that the reader can't help but smile.
Still, the afore-mentioned fiance, Erik, is a problem. How are we supposed to feel about him? I, for one, was torn. He loved Joanna, and I felt horrible rooting for Brian, knowing how Erik felt. He wasn't necessarily a bad guy; he just didn't understand. It seems to me that even Walker had mixed feelings when it came to him. And that's one of the things that made this story so touching.
Throughout the majority of the book, the reader is torn and twisted in every direction, wanting to feel one way but also wanting to feel another. Wanting at the same time to be okay with something that, in essence, is just not okay, even though it seems to be the only way. I realize it's kind of cryptic to put things like that, but I don't want to give away anything about this heartwarming, touching, gem of a book, a book that will make you genuinely believe that true love can exist even at the worst of times.
Bookventures Book Club. A friend told me that I would enjoy this book and I totally did. The story gripped me with its romance and suspense from the get go.
Admittedly I am not a fan of romance novels because I find many of them are unrealistic and simply just too mushy but there was something about this story that resonated with me.
The characters, the plot and the story were all developed tactfully and made for a truly beautiful story that I simply could not put down. There were several themes in the story but the one more central to it was that of true love and having second chances. Would Walker continue to write contemporary romance stories? I sure hope so because he has certainly used his training as a writer to create a really good piece. His writing style is also something to comment on.
It is basic but yet effective. No grandeur statements or phrases to evoke a particular emotion for the reader. It is obvious that Walker used what he knew and used it well to help portray his characters and the emotions that they felt. The way he told the story was another important point worth mentioning. The book is broken up into the present and the past , a tactic that helped to place the whole story in perspective. The suspense was evenly distributed throughout these different periods which made that the transitions between both periods seamless and it kept the reader glued to the story.
I thought that the characters in this story were a bit different to most stories that you read. There is no clear antagonist or protagonist since every one of the characters was a victim in some way or the other.
You felt sorry for the bad guy because he lived the only way he knew how to, by possessing the things that he wanted. If that statement suggests that my favourite character was the bad guy, then so be it because I connected with his character the most. Joanna, who serves as half of the protagonist in the story was my least favourite.
She came across as a whinny, confused young woman who constantly complained about being misunderstood. She is a true Idealist, subscribing to all the hard and fast rules that come with the territory. I did not want this story to end and for a new novelist to grip you in that manner it can only suggest two things, A Note from an Old Acquaintance is a really good book and Bill Walker is a novelist to watch.
The story started out in the present, where Brian is trying to deal with the aftermath of a horrible accident that left his wife in a coma and his little boy dead. Although it's been almost two years, the pain is still fresh and he's having a rough time.
That's when he receives an email titled "A note from an old acquaintance," bringing Joanna back into his life. Then after about 50 pages, the story turns into a flashback of when Brian and Joanna first met. There's even a flashback during the flashback! I'd say that the bulk of the book is their back story, then we finally come back to the present. Overall, I enjoyed this story. The flashback is a nice love story, but I didn't feel that it really connected to the first part of the book. The book started off with Brian dealing with his grief, then that's it.
His wife and son rarely get mentioned in the rest of the book. And I would have really liked to have known more about Penny and how they met. I realize that this was Joanna and Brian's story, but I hungered for more. Think I liked Brian more than I liked Joanna. He seemed nice and easy-going, even if he did get over his grief awfully fast. Joanna was supposed to be this beautiful, vivacious, talented woman who had men falling in love with her at a glance, but I thought she came off a little immature and selfish.
Did not like Joanna cheating on Erik, but that's a personal quirk. Tried to understand Joanna's point of view but again, I never really warmed up to her. Also thought that the ending was wrapped up a little too fast, and was too nice and neat. A little disappointed there, but still okay with it. And without giving anything away, I appreciated that Walker resisted the urge to go down certain cliched paths with Zach.
Walker is a very talented writer, but some of the passages were a little too descriptive for my taste. Don't really need to know that many details that do nothing to move the story forward. And whenever someone mentions a brand name, I feel like it's product placement.
I know that some readers really enjoy overly descriptive passages, but unfortunately, I'm not one of them. So now you know some of my reader pet peeves. That being said, I thought that all in all, the writing was well done and it was a nice story. Displaying 1 - 10 of 40 reviews.
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