July

by Jeff Gutterman

July is a novel, a love story, a romance, a thought provoking comedy, possibly a tragedy. It's a wonderful story about our joys and our sadness and how we each choose to move through and experience the human emotional anomalies of Love, Commitment, Forgiveness, Fear of Loss, and Second Chances. And how sometimes, the masks we wear prevent us from expressing what needs to be expressed in the moment. July is an exploration of just how we create what we experience, and experience what we've created. It's about love found as it was meant to be, and then pulled apart from projected imaginings. It's about understanding that as an aspect of energy, love is. Simply and completely. July is also about not getting stuck in the past. About releasing old baggage and moving forward in the now. It's about understanding that the veil that separates a damaged past from our present, really does need to be an impenetrable curtain if we plan on moving forward with love. Inevitably, July explores the sensitive nature of relationships and the tiny threads that can tug and pull us in two different directions at once as a past love affair is mysteriously rekindled. So follow the path of second chances for July and Wheeler on a invitingly familiar journey into the unknown, framed within moments of recognition, all too familiar. From the beginning, through lifetimes of touching, teaching, and learning, their experiences will play with your mind. For July and Wheeler, love will find a way, at some point, in some reality, possibly in some distant now, when the understanding is that disconnection never really occurs and where the shadow of fear no longer resides.

232 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1999

Reviews

[Alaina Boschi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I gave this book three stars because it was a good book. It was a bit of a mystery because the two main characters would be with eachother in their imagination. They were never really together in reailty though. both of them would be imagining them together at the same and actually doing things. They loved eachother very much but were never able to be together. they actually have met in real life but somehow they got seperated and thats where their imagination came in.
There were a lot of things i didnt like about this book. It was very confusing and i could hardly follow the story. I couldnt tell if they were actually together or if it was their imagination. They talked about being with eachother but then they would wake up and be in two different places. Almost like they were dreaming and not in their imagination.

[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

"They were both disappearing into the unknown, together."

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Nothing that occurs in life occurs only once. For until we recognize and admit who we truly are, we will be shown again and again."

[Kat Hartwell · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book never gets old for me I read it multiple times and I still will read it again! Almost kind of like time traveler but w romance. Must read!!

[Edna · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm a great fan of the reuniting of lost loves, but I don't think the conspiracy of mysterious forces adds anything to the trope.