Seems Like Old Times eBook Joanne Pence
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An emotionally powerful tale of love, loss, and second chances.
Lee Reynolds is unprepared for the torrent of memories that fill her when she returns to her small hometown. She fled soon after high school, breaking ties with her mother and friends, including her high school sweetheart. The reason why is a secret she divulged to only one person, the aunt she turned to during that devastating period.
Lee Reynolds of New York City has achieved more fame, wealth and success than little Lisa Marie Reynolds from Miwok, California, ever imagined possible when she was growing up. Now, she plans to quickly ready her deceased mother’s home for sale, and then to hurry back to New York. But she soon discovers that, as much as she doesn’t want to be there, events conspire to cause her to finally face her past.
The most difficult part of that past is Tony Santos. The poor son of a Mexican ranch hand he, like young Lisa, had big dreams for his future. For a while, the two of them saw their future together. But the ugliness of prejudice and ambition, expectation and failure, got in the way.
Lee is surprised to learn Tony has moved back to Miwok to raise his young son. Little does she expect that her feelings for him are still so strong…or his for her. But it is possible to forget the past? Or if not to forget, to forgive? Both she and Tony have changed a lot. Yet seeing him, simply talking with him, she finds that in her heart, it seems like old times…
Seems Like Old Times eBook Joanne Pence
Seems Like Old Times left me squirming the way we do when we recognize characteristics in a character that we don't necessary like about ourselves. Well, that's not quite true, perhaps its more accurate to say characteristics we thought we'd "outgrown" as we matured. The defenses we built to shut out love and true happiness often become mired in what we call reality though it's not really. As I read about Lee's struggles to become the woman she wanted to be I recognized my own struggles to please and find my place in the world. As I read of the love she and Tony shared and she abandoned, my heart ached for lost love yet I recognized my own reluctance to accept love at a young age. Seems Like Old Times is a love story that will strike at the heart of anyone who has ever loved and walked away from a love the heart refused to forget. Sometimes, just as Lee did, we make the decisions we feel we must in the moment, but we sacrifice our own happiness in the process. Then we spend a lifetime trying to find our way back to that happiness just as both Lee and Tony did. When Lee and Tony have a second chance, they struggle to figure out how to resolve the past and embrace a second chance. Seems Like Old Times had me in tears while I contemplated decisions from my own life yet it reminded me that love is never a mistake even when it hurts. Pence delivers complex characters who in many ways create their own problems just as we tend to do in real life. Throughout the pages of Seems Like Old Times, the question isn't just about second chances but about forgiveness, understanding, and acceptance of others but also of one's self. Be warned; reading Seems Like Old Times, may make you nostalgic for a lost love... Read at your own risk, but read. You won't regret it!Product details
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Seems Like Old Times eBook Joanne Pence Reviews
SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES was a very enjoyable book to read. The cool, sophisticated, and polished Lee Reynolds who was the rising star as a newswoman seemed to have nothing in common with Lisa, the ambitious but sweet and openhearted teenager she had been. Tony, who now bred horses on a small ranch where he had grown up, had fulfilled his teenage dreams of becoming a professional baseball player and had given it up in order to have a better, more involved life with his son. The main theme of the story was whether or not Lee could find and acknowledge that Lisa was still very much a part of the mature Lee and if Tony can accept and love both parts of her personality.
The writing style was very smooth and flowing; however the editing left much to be desired. Luckily, the storyline was good enough to hold my interest and keep the pages turning. I found the dialogues to be authentic and the imagery was particularly good. They both helped to immerse myself in the story.
Overall, I found this book to be very entertaining and I definitely recommend it.
I wanted to write this review before the tears dried. At first I thought that the book was just a filler for me. I got it for $.99 and it would be something to lull me to sleep at night. That's how the book started. It was a cut and dried story as old as romance novels, girl meets boy, they move apart to success in their fields. They meet again in later life back in their home town where he's raising his adorable son all alone. They fall back in love and live happily ever after. Except that's not how it happened and this morning I had to pick it up and finish it. Now I'm going to find more of Ms Pence's books to see if all of them make me care so much about the characters she creates. That's what books are about for me. I'm actually in the middle of rereading one of Suzanne Brockmann's tension filled Troubleshooters books and picked this up because those aren't something to read before going to sleep. Instead of picking that back up this morning and getting to work, it's an audio book so I can enjoy it and still feel that I'm getting a day's work done, I picked this back up and read through to the end. It's mid morning and I wanted to thank Ms Pence by writing this review before going back to my real life of packing up boxes and deciding what to keep and what to throw out. I don't need to tell you about the plot, you can read that somewhere else, I need to tell you about the characters and the setting in small town Northern California. The book took me there and the characters made me feel for them, and for me that's what good fiction is all about.
This book was a good read. It made me think back real quickly in my life to see if there was a lost love (didn't find one, so I kept reading).
The characters were real. I could actually see this scenario occurring in real life. There were a couple of slow spots in the book, but I think it was necessary so that the reader could get a complete picture of what was truly going on when the characters were apart from each other. This was also during a time when Tony's world completely fell apart (you need to read it, to see what I am talking about) and was trying to put it back together the best way he knew how.
The storyline did flow well. The only issue I had was with one of the secondary characters Lee's fiance Bruce. He stated several times that he loved her. Bruce didn't even want to let her go when she was questioning their relationship, but it seems to me he was always putting down where she came from, how she reacted to where she came from, and her lack of support of him (considering he wasn't really supporting her during the death of her mother),
This was the first book I read from this author, and I would actually read another.
Seems Like Old Times left me squirming the way we do when we recognize characteristics in a character that we don't necessary like about ourselves. Well, that's not quite true, perhaps its more accurate to say characteristics we thought we'd "outgrown" as we matured. The defenses we built to shut out love and true happiness often become mired in what we call reality though it's not really. As I read about Lee's struggles to become the woman she wanted to be I recognized my own struggles to please and find my place in the world. As I read of the love she and Tony shared and she abandoned, my heart ached for lost love yet I recognized my own reluctance to accept love at a young age. Seems Like Old Times is a love story that will strike at the heart of anyone who has ever loved and walked away from a love the heart refused to forget. Sometimes, just as Lee did, we make the decisions we feel we must in the moment, but we sacrifice our own happiness in the process. Then we spend a lifetime trying to find our way back to that happiness just as both Lee and Tony did. When Lee and Tony have a second chance, they struggle to figure out how to resolve the past and embrace a second chance. Seems Like Old Times had me in tears while I contemplated decisions from my own life yet it reminded me that love is never a mistake even when it hurts. Pence delivers complex characters who in many ways create their own problems just as we tend to do in real life. Throughout the pages of Seems Like Old Times, the question isn't just about second chances but about forgiveness, understanding, and acceptance of others but also of one's self. Be warned; reading Seems Like Old Times, may make you nostalgic for a lost love... Read at your own risk, but read. You won't regret it!
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