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Nowhere Yet
When Rex calls after years of being incommunicado, his best friend Grant is hesitant to accept his invitation. Just like the old days, Rex knows the buttons to push. He has invited Annie, the woman Grant thought he was going to marry. Former friends and lost loves reconnect on a long, playful and soul searching weekend in Palm Springs. Each discovering they hold hopes long forgotten, each hold fears that the best times of their lives may have already passed by. The mending of emotional fences take them further than they thought possible. Rekindled feelings and new awakenings show them some paths not previously considered. After all these years, all these lives, all this time, is it possible that the best of their lives is yet to come?All agree to meet, and sparks of longing, anger, uncertainty and love combine to commence considerable flames burning in all of them. The introduction of a couple of new personalities to the mix, give them additional viewpoints to their lives to consider.Annie's friend Kat, gives her wisdom to help stabilize the situation. An intuitive, Isobelle, meets and gives the wayward friends a great deal to think about in how they are to address the future. Grant's aching for Annie, Rex's hunger for crazy adventures, Annie's longing for a normal life, and Isobelle's sudden attraction to Grant, make for an exciting mingling of everyone's emotions, and the hopes of a future void of the uncertainty they have all been holding.
308 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 2012
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About the author
Edward Cozza
3 books3 followersColorado native Edward Cozza is a fiction writer, speaker and humorist. He is a teller of human tales and enjoys public speaking with an audience who believes in taking the time to unplug, connect and being mindful of time spent with loved ones. He now lives in Southern California with his wife and dogs, sometimes with a bourbon nearby
The second novel of the series, Near Somewhere, has just been released, and was recognized by The Beverly Hills Book Awards as-WINNER, New Fiction. It was also awarded FINALIST-General Fiction, and FINALIST-Fiction Cover.
Edward left a successful career in business to dive headlong into the lives of his characters in his debut novel Nowhere Yet: Grant, Rex, Annie and Kat – four, forty-something friends who meet up in Palm Springs after many years apart. Their plight is like ours: How did we get here? Where will we end up?
Nowhere Yet was a bestseller at the largest independent bookstore in the West – Warwick’s in La Jolla, CA, and made their "Top 50 Bestsellers" List for 2012.
Nowhere Yet won four National awards
Independent Publisher’s Book Award (IPPY)
Gold Medal in Best Regional Fiction – West Pacific 2013
Beverly Hills Book Awards
Best Book Cover: Winner at Beverly Hills Book Awards 2013
Best Fiction Book: Finalist at Beverly Hills Book Awards 2013
Starla Fortunato/President’s Choice Award Winner at Beverly Hills Book Awards 2013
Ed is touring the country at hosted events across America.
The second novel of the series, Near Somewhere, has just been released, and was recognized by The Beverly Hills Book Awards as-WINNER, New Fiction. It was also awarded FINALIST-General Fiction, and FINALIST-Fiction Cover.
Edward left a successful career in business to dive headlong into the lives of his characters in his debut novel Nowhere Yet: Grant, Rex, Annie and Kat – four, forty-something friends who meet up in Palm Springs after many years apart. Their plight is like ours: How did we get here? Where will we end up?
Nowhere Yet was a bestseller at the largest independent bookstore in the West – Warwick’s in La Jolla, CA, and made their "Top 50 Bestsellers" List for 2012.
Nowhere Yet won four National awards
Independent Publisher’s Book Award (IPPY)
Gold Medal in Best Regional Fiction – West Pacific 2013
Beverly Hills Book Awards
Best Book Cover: Winner at Beverly Hills Book Awards 2013
Best Fiction Book: Finalist at Beverly Hills Book Awards 2013
Starla Fortunato/President’s Choice Award Winner at Beverly Hills Book Awards 2013
Ed is touring the country at hosted events across America.
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May 6, 2013
This book has something for anyone who's ever reinvented their life. The characters all face difficulty and then realize that solutions are simple and revolve around being honest about who you are and, of course, love in the end.
November 9, 2012
Nowhere Yet by Edward Cozza
Rex has talked Annie into meeting him and Grant after he's given her a bunch of things she's always wanted.
Grant has gotten into a car wreck and he meets up with Rex and Annie and her friend, Kat who is a psychiatrist.
The female bartender takes care of their drinking needs and she has other magic up her sleeve.
Grant has worked for others in the city and now he knows too much of their companies and they are all going to jail cuz the Feds went after them. He's trying to play things cool, by not telling anybody about what he really knows.
There's a lot of partying and eating and drinking and with a mixture of people where some know one another.
Things get out of hand and a fight breaks out and he does find his way back to the hotel and the recuperation is not done in a traditional hospital.
Love the ending part where it all comes together. Glad to hear this is only book 1 of a series!
Rex has talked Annie into meeting him and Grant after he's given her a bunch of things she's always wanted.
Grant has gotten into a car wreck and he meets up with Rex and Annie and her friend, Kat who is a psychiatrist.
The female bartender takes care of their drinking needs and she has other magic up her sleeve.
Grant has worked for others in the city and now he knows too much of their companies and they are all going to jail cuz the Feds went after them. He's trying to play things cool, by not telling anybody about what he really knows.
There's a lot of partying and eating and drinking and with a mixture of people where some know one another.
Things get out of hand and a fight breaks out and he does find his way back to the hotel and the recuperation is not done in a traditional hospital.
Love the ending part where it all comes together. Glad to hear this is only book 1 of a series!
April 8, 2013
I reckon everyone has a ‘friend’ like Rex – someone that pops up every few years having been out of contact and picks up where they left off, as if no time at all has passed. These friends are characteristically flighty, assuming, irritating and often highly entertaining which is why you keep letting them back into your life.
And this is how Edward Cozza’s novel, Nowhere Yet, opens.
Rex calls Grant after years of being incommunicado. He invites him to spend a weekend in Palm Springs and although Grant is initially hesitant, he accepts when he learns that his ex-girlfriend, Annie, will also be there.
This book looked promising – a modern Big Chill, I wondered? Unfortunately it failed to deliver.
Instead, it’s over three hundred pages of painfully boring descriptions of Rex, Grant, Annie and a handful of other characters sitting in bars, restaurants or by the pool. The characters were disappointingly one-dimensional – reluctant Grant, reserved Annie, smart-arse Rex and savvy Kat. Barmaid Isobelle was there to provide intrigue but her interest in the group didn’t ring true for me and bordered on downright weird.
“Isobelle arrived back at work at the Ritz, feeling pretty good about the night before. She still wanted to get to know Grant better, but the time spent last night was progress. She was enamored with him and had decided he was worth the effort. The woman, Annie, seemed like a very caring person, and though she wished she were not here to compete with, Isobelle found it difficult not to like her.”
Enamored? With someone you met in a bar? And you like the unknown woman you’re competing with? It would never happen…
The story is told predominantly through dialogue which in the beginning is snappy but quickly becomes repetitive and predictable – the continuous ribbing between Grant and Rex; the tentative inquiries between Annie and Grant; and the thinly veiled ‘aggressive’ flirting between Rex and Kat. Furthermore, the relationships and the dialogue between the female characters were so unnatural that I began to wonder if Cozza had ever had the opportunity to eavesdrop on women talking. For example, this exchange between Annie and Isobelle regarding tennis -
“We can just hit, we don’t have to keep score. It’s just to get out and get the exercise,” Annie said.
“I can do that.”
“Good. Say, have you seen any of our friends pass by here today?”
“Yes, Kat stopped by and we talked a little. There is a great deal of depth to her. Her comments mask a real understanding that she has of a great many things.”
What? I don’t even understand that last sentence.
And then there are Grant’s thoughts about his ex, Annie -
“The smile she gave Grant when she saw him was the biggest smile he had ever seen on her face. He thought her beauty radiated from the caring that was attached to that smile.”
“She brought an unknown, unfamiliar confidence with her wherever she went, and it seeped into the room, mixed with a compassion and a calmness that swept over whoever she was with like a desert breeze…. Strangers and old friends alike could not help but sit in awe, as near to being fulfilled as they could ever believe possible. Grant thought this fresco could make him happy the rest of his life.”
Huh?
I’m not going to dwell any further on Nowhere Yet. Apparently it’s the first book in a trilogy – needless to say I won’t be waiting for the second installment.
I received my copy of Nowhere Yet from the publisher, Legacy Line Publishing via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.
1/5 Had I not been reading this book as part of a reading challenge, I would have abandoned it.
And this is how Edward Cozza’s novel, Nowhere Yet, opens.
Rex calls Grant after years of being incommunicado. He invites him to spend a weekend in Palm Springs and although Grant is initially hesitant, he accepts when he learns that his ex-girlfriend, Annie, will also be there.
This book looked promising – a modern Big Chill, I wondered? Unfortunately it failed to deliver.
Instead, it’s over three hundred pages of painfully boring descriptions of Rex, Grant, Annie and a handful of other characters sitting in bars, restaurants or by the pool. The characters were disappointingly one-dimensional – reluctant Grant, reserved Annie, smart-arse Rex and savvy Kat. Barmaid Isobelle was there to provide intrigue but her interest in the group didn’t ring true for me and bordered on downright weird.
“Isobelle arrived back at work at the Ritz, feeling pretty good about the night before. She still wanted to get to know Grant better, but the time spent last night was progress. She was enamored with him and had decided he was worth the effort. The woman, Annie, seemed like a very caring person, and though she wished she were not here to compete with, Isobelle found it difficult not to like her.”
Enamored? With someone you met in a bar? And you like the unknown woman you’re competing with? It would never happen…
The story is told predominantly through dialogue which in the beginning is snappy but quickly becomes repetitive and predictable – the continuous ribbing between Grant and Rex; the tentative inquiries between Annie and Grant; and the thinly veiled ‘aggressive’ flirting between Rex and Kat. Furthermore, the relationships and the dialogue between the female characters were so unnatural that I began to wonder if Cozza had ever had the opportunity to eavesdrop on women talking. For example, this exchange between Annie and Isobelle regarding tennis -
“We can just hit, we don’t have to keep score. It’s just to get out and get the exercise,” Annie said.
“I can do that.”
“Good. Say, have you seen any of our friends pass by here today?”
“Yes, Kat stopped by and we talked a little. There is a great deal of depth to her. Her comments mask a real understanding that she has of a great many things.”
What? I don’t even understand that last sentence.
And then there are Grant’s thoughts about his ex, Annie -
“The smile she gave Grant when she saw him was the biggest smile he had ever seen on her face. He thought her beauty radiated from the caring that was attached to that smile.”
“She brought an unknown, unfamiliar confidence with her wherever she went, and it seeped into the room, mixed with a compassion and a calmness that swept over whoever she was with like a desert breeze…. Strangers and old friends alike could not help but sit in awe, as near to being fulfilled as they could ever believe possible. Grant thought this fresco could make him happy the rest of his life.”
Huh?
I’m not going to dwell any further on Nowhere Yet. Apparently it’s the first book in a trilogy – needless to say I won’t be waiting for the second installment.
I received my copy of Nowhere Yet from the publisher, Legacy Line Publishing via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.
1/5 Had I not been reading this book as part of a reading challenge, I would have abandoned it.
August 16, 2014
In this story, the author's greatest asset is the often fast-paced and witty dialogue. However, sometimes it seemed stilted and unnatural at times.
Read full review in the 2013 September issue of InD’tale Magazine.
Read full review in the 2013 September issue of InD’tale Magazine.
April 11, 2013
As I read this book I wondered if it was truly just a novel or if there were lessons buried in the text.
Nowhere Yet by Edward Cozza is novel that could also be used as a lesson for all. The past is past, make your future what you
want it to be. In this delightful light read Cozza has mastered the art of writing dialog in such a way as to keep the reader engaged
from the first page to the last. His group of friends spend a weekend reconnecting with one another, making new connections,
learning that the past cannot be changed, the future can be made better by learning from the past, and never giving up is the
key to an interesting life.
The story opens with Grant receiving a call from a friend who has been missing for years. The friend, Rex, has planned a weekend
to reconnect not only with Grant, but with Grant's former love, Annie. The weekend in Palm Springs is an eventful one to say the least.
Friendships are rekindled and new friendships are formed.
This is the perfect weekend read to stimulate a rebirth of the human spirit. Cozza leaves the reader anxious to see what the
next installment in this trilogy holds for the characters readers will grow to think of as their own friends.
Highly recommend
Nowhere Yet by Edward Cozza is novel that could also be used as a lesson for all. The past is past, make your future what you
want it to be. In this delightful light read Cozza has mastered the art of writing dialog in such a way as to keep the reader engaged
from the first page to the last. His group of friends spend a weekend reconnecting with one another, making new connections,
learning that the past cannot be changed, the future can be made better by learning from the past, and never giving up is the
key to an interesting life.
The story opens with Grant receiving a call from a friend who has been missing for years. The friend, Rex, has planned a weekend
to reconnect not only with Grant, but with Grant's former love, Annie. The weekend in Palm Springs is an eventful one to say the least.
Friendships are rekindled and new friendships are formed.
This is the perfect weekend read to stimulate a rebirth of the human spirit. Cozza leaves the reader anxious to see what the
next installment in this trilogy holds for the characters readers will grow to think of as their own friends.
Highly recommend
February 23, 2014
was not a fan, too much dialogue and not enough description. the characters were limited in personality and just didn't feel real. There were a lot of issues with typos and stuff in a published book. question marks instead if periods etc. the only reason I read past the first two chapters was because it was either read it or stare at a wall
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