| Title: | The Love of My (Other) Life | |
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| Author: | Traci L. Slatton | |
| Publisher | Parvati Press | |
| Publication Date: | January 31, 2013 | |
| Publisher's Description | Painter Tessa Barnum is struggling. Her husband left, she's broke, about to be evicted and has made some serious missteps in her career. When scruffy Brian Tennyson explodes into her life, claiming to be from an alternate universe, Tessa thinks he's a crazy vagabond - albeit one with mysterious and undeniable appeal. Then he informs her that in his world, they're married. Tessa's universe is turned upside down as the truth of love and loss, victory and humiliation, and second chances comes back to her. She has to choose love over logic to reach that state of anticipation where miracles unfold. The secret to her own life was always in her heart. |
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| My rating: | *** | |
Seriously, this cover…wtf?
This story started out slowly for me. I couldn’t understand why Tessa would put up with so much from Brian, who she assumed was a crazy stalker. Even though she kept telling him to go away, she never seemed surprised or truly perturbed that he was everywhere she was. It seemed far fetched that she would suffer his company so often if she were truly afraid of him.
I liked the idea of parallel worlds where things were familiar, but different, but wished that there had been some ambiguity as to whether Brian’s story was true; knowing that he was right just made the “real world” scenes with the Tessa who wasn’t his wife that much more trying for me.
I don’t get how the book’s cover related to the story. I think that it made me expect this book to go in a complete different direction than it actually did, and may dissuade some readers who would otherwise enjoy this book from picking it up. The Love of My (Other) Life had a good premise and was a decent read, but while packed more of an emotional punch than I would have expected from the way it opened, it never completely drew me in.
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