Swear on This Life: A Novel

Swear on This Life: A Novel

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Beschreibung

Booklist, Top 10 Women’s Fiction of 2016 Goodreads Best Romance of August Redbook.com’s “20 Books by Women You Must ReadThis Fall” Popsugar’s “21 Fiction Reads to Add to Your Fall Reading List” Bustle’s “11 New Romance Books Perfect for Summer Beach Reading” Brit+Co’s “16 Must-Read Adult Books Out in August” Sunset magazine’s “Bookmark this: Your ultimate summer reading list” From USA TODAY bestselling author Renée Carlino (Before We Were Strangers), a warm and witty novel about a struggling writer who must come to grips with her past, present, and future after she discovers that she’s the inspiration for a pseudonymously published bestselling novel. When a bestselling debut novel from mysterious author J. Colby becomes the literary event of the year, Emiline reads it reluctantly. As an adjunct writing instructor at UC San Diego with her own stalled literary career and a bumpy long-term relationship, Emiline isn’t thrilled to celebrate the accomplishments of a young and gifted writer. Yet from the very first page, Emiline is entranced by the story of Emerson and Jackson, two childhood best friends who fall in love and dream of a better life beyond the long dirt road that winds through their impoverished town in rural Ohio. That’s because the novel is patterned on Emiline’s own dark and desperate childhood, which means that “J. Colby” must be Jase: the best friend and first love she hasn’t seen in over a decade. Far from being flattered that he wrote the novel from her perspective, Emiline is furious that he co-opted her painful past and took some dramatic creative liberties with the ending. The only way she can put her mind at ease is to find and confront “J. Colby,” but is she prepared to learn the truth behind the fiction?
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Beiträge

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5

Wow ich kann nicht fassen, dass das Buch über einem Jahr auf meinem SUB lag. Hab es an einem Tag weggesuchtet da ich es nicht mehr aus der Hand legen konnte.

4

3.5 stars The book "Swear on This Life" leaves me feeling conflicted. The book takes place in two time levels, one in the present, where Emeline comes to a book that deals with her own traumatic childhood, which makes her quickly realize that her childhood friend Jase, whom she hasn't seen since 10 years, wrote it. On the other hand, in the past of Jase and Emiline, which is presented as the book written by Jase. I find the idea of a book in a book very good and I enjoyed this while reading. But now about why I am conflicted: I really liked the passages where it is about the childhood of Emiline and Jase. I found the two characters there totally authentic and symphatic. I sympathized with Em and Jase, because they had such a hard start in life and grew up in really bad situations. But it was also wonderful to read how the two have become friends and through their deep friendship, which over time became love, the problems were a little easier to deal with. All the things that I liked in the past were not there for me in the present. The characters around Emiline and Jase had for me no depth and have partly acted totally without understanding. What I also have to mention: There definitely would have been room for a better friend than Cara was in the story for Emiline. I found her totally irrelevant and in some places also zero sensitive considering that she just learned what Emiline had been through in her childhood, which she clearly hadn't come to terms with yet. All in all, I think that there is a lot of potential behind the story, which was partly used, but partly (especially in the present part) not.

5

4,5 Sterne :) Just beautiful.

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