Someone Like You

by Syd Parker

Words: 77,285 (approximate)

Does true love ever get a second chance?

Aspen Lane hasn’t forgotten her first love or the heartbreak she’s been dealing with since she left. As an artist, Aspen tried to pour her feelings into her art in hopes of healing, but five years later, she’s still trying to move on.

There’s just one thing keeping Lex Tataris from marrying her girlfriend, Cassidy Scott – being married to another woman. A divorce should be simple enough. Go home to Vermont and live there long enough to file the paperwork.

When Aspen offers to live with Lex for the six months it will take to prove residency in Vermont, she figures it will be a chance for her to get closure and move on. Lex is certain everything will go smoothly and she will be free to marry Cassidy soon enough. The two women soon discover that letting go may not be as easy as they thought or what they wanted after all.

Genres: Lesbian, Romance, Queer, Lesbian Romance

ebook

First published March 4, 2013

About the author

Syd Parker was born in 1975 in California and now lives in Indiana with her partner. Syd loves to reminisce about growing up the oldest of seven kids. There were plenty of shenanigans with that many kids, many of which have ended up in Syd's novels. In school, Syd loved all things English, but put dreams of writing aside to concentrate on her studies. She set off for college with the goal of being a nurse, but ultimately opted for a much more sexy and debonair day job in financing. Not picking up a pen again until she was thirty-four, Syd hit the ground running, penning six novels in three years. She has finally realized her lifelong dream of being an author and telling her stories to the masses.

Having long realized her dream of playing pro golf will probably not happen with a wicked slice, Syd spends her free time three-putting on the golf course, riding her road bike Hammer or training to be a professional runner. The moments in between are sprinkled with a gaggle of nieces and nephews that she adores and spoils all the time. She fancies herself a down home gourmet chef and has an unnatural addiction to Doritos. She loves to read a good love story and thoroughly enjoys writing them as well. "It isn't just about writing a story, it's about creating a world and having the reader climb into it, experiencing it in first person.That's my goal...that's why I write." (from the author's website)

Reviews

[Angie Engles · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed Syd Parker's Love's Abiding Spirit enough to want to read more of her novels, but Someone Like You made me experience her writing in a much more emotional, satisfying way. Here Parker has written something very sweet and tender, if at times also a bit frustrating.

Of course it helps a lot that Someone Like You is _supposed_ to be maddening because one of the book's main themes is: just because you love someone and she loves you back doesn't mean everything is going to work out. You can know why a relationship broke apart, you can want with every bit of your heart to fix it all up and be back together...but that doesn't make it so.

THAT is why I love this book...in a less skilled writer's hands this book could have just been a sappy short story with everything neatly resolved in less than an hour's read. Instead, Syd Parker infuses Someone Like You with a healthy, if often sad, dose of reality as the reader travels along the road of ups and downs, downs and up that make up Aspen and Lex's relationship.

Someone Like You is a lovely, often emotionally challenging, read and definitely worth every penny.

[Agirlcandream · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not Parker's best work. The premise for all the heartache and heartbreak is too weak to justify an entire angst filled novel of unrequited love. The editing improved as the story progressed, but when The character Lex turns on her heal (sic) and leaves the room it just brings out grammar/spell check cop in me. I will keep reading Parker. I love her well rounded characters, her foodie ways and usually her plots. This one was a miss for me.

[Monna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. It is well written and rolls along nicely. Lots of angst and sometimes I want to knock the girls' heads together to get them to see what is in front of them. I'd love to live at that ranch in Vermont. Great visuals in the story of that place.

[moxieBK · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was so hopeful with this book. A love that was and then ended and then had another chance to come back. I was soooo hopeful. Sadly, it just didn't work for me in this story. After I read the sample, I bought and downloaded the book, and then it started falling apart for me. The plot was thin, and honestly, the characters were not very likable. One seemed too full of herself and self-centered and the other just plain mopey. It was depressing. I am embarrassed to say I was rooting for the ex's new lover almost. It works out in the end, but I felt tired after reading it. The writer should have shortened the book by at least fifty pages. It dragged in places, and the plot wasn't as tight as it could have been. Because of this, it took way longer than it should have. It wasn't a fast read, for sure.

Two stars.

[Kimberly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Buy it, read it, and you'll love it! I'm not going to go into specifics about the storyline, but I will say make sure you have time to read because you will not want to put it down. I have become emotional reading before, but I have never actually cried while reading. I cried several times while reading this book. Expect to feel several different emotions as Syd takes you on an emotional rollercoaster telling the story of Lex and Aspen. It's beautifully written and definitely worth the buy.

[Pat Adams-Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think two of the best pointers of a really good book actually happened when I was reading this book. One, I couldn't put it down, and two, I was there, in the story, routing for the characters involved. I'm not a spoiler in reviews, and don't feel the need to go over the story, suffice to say I thoroughly enjoyed it, and hope given time, there may be some kind of follow up. An added bonus were the recipes at the end! Keep up the good work, Syd.

[Heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Made me hungry. Forget being an artist, Aspen should open a restaurant in my town. I was routing for the main characters to get back together and then there was a point were I was glad it wasn't happening. The ending was just right.

[Naomi Stock · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not Syds best book, but still very good.

[Gwen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not so good. Too long. Always the same things, too much thinking for nothing...

[Elisa Rolle · Rating 5 out of 5]

2013 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention (5* from at least 1 judge)

[Lindsay]

I'm quite torn on what to rate this at the moment... So I guess To Be Continued on this review