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A Snapshot In Time
Ronald Anderson a 39-year-old artist and art professor on sabbatical since the unexpected death of his wife in an automobile accident two years earlier. The tragedy has left him dark and distant, his art becoming dark and macabre, his life a humdrum daily existence devoid of hope, until the day Allie comes to his door. Allie (Alice May Jewett) is a 23-year-old Junior recently enrolled at the university after three years of community college in a small town in Montana. She too, has suffered great tragedy; the loss of her father during the war in Iraq ten years earlier. Naive and quite innocent after a sheltered life spent helping her mother after her father's death, she is on her own for the first time and learning about life and herself. Through their shared tragic histories, friendship and healing begins that quickly leads to stronger inner feelings of love and desire. Working through the nuances of generational differences, the two cling to each other, each in different ways. Ron is the nurtruing father figure Allie has never known. She is the impish, sometimes impudent girl teasing and eventually seducing the structured and romantically-resistant Ron. Working through their conflicts they find healing and hope, but not without external opposition. Allie must convince her mother that her relationship with Ron is more than a typical coed's crush on a professor. Ron's daughter, nearly Allie's age, despite her own dark secret, finds her father's new romance revolting. A Snapshot in Time is a compelling tale of two people finding hope and happiness in each other. The characters come to life with all their dark feelings and bright hopes, making the reader fall in love with both and hope for the best."
287 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 6, 2015
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February 11, 2015
I really wanted to like this book! I did! For one, it's not an Erotica, at all! Maybe 20-30 years ago it could have been, but compared to today's Erotica this isn't it. I have close to 400 Erotica titles under my belt along with hundreds of very steamy romances. I would say this book is a College age Contemporary Romance.
I was excited to read a Erotica/Romantica from a mans point of few. However what I got was a male author trying to step into the mind of a very naive girl and it just came off WRONG, for no better word. I found myself wondering from the beginning why it wasn't writing in the males point of view? As a male author he would had a unique perspective.
A Snapshot in Time is suppose to be a present day story but they way the male was written I got the impression he was in his 60s or 70s not 39. Also Allie was written so naive that she came across ass a teenager maybe 14-16. Not a 23 year old woman. Who this day and age would not be quite so naive especially about her own BODY, at 23! I think this is do to the possible semi auto-biographical nature of the story? I think possibly if the story had been set in the past their behavior might have been a little more understandable and not so off putting.
The story moved incredibly slow we spent a lot of time, doing laundry and dishes and other inane things that just took up space and made the story boring. Allie and Ron didn't Kiss unit 40%! I appreciate that this is a personal story and I feel bad that I didn't love it. I didn't hate it. The were some sweet moments and some quite profound moments. I especially like the part were Allie's mom told her " I don't think we choose love, but rather love chooses for us." So I am giving it a star rating of two. It was OK. It could of been better....Sara
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I was excited to read a Erotica/Romantica from a mans point of few. However what I got was a male author trying to step into the mind of a very naive girl and it just came off WRONG, for no better word. I found myself wondering from the beginning why it wasn't writing in the males point of view? As a male author he would had a unique perspective.
A Snapshot in Time is suppose to be a present day story but they way the male was written I got the impression he was in his 60s or 70s not 39. Also Allie was written so naive that she came across ass a teenager maybe 14-16. Not a 23 year old woman. Who this day and age would not be quite so naive especially about her own BODY, at 23! I think this is do to the possible semi auto-biographical nature of the story? I think possibly if the story had been set in the past their behavior might have been a little more understandable and not so off putting.
The story moved incredibly slow we spent a lot of time, doing laundry and dishes and other inane things that just took up space and made the story boring. Allie and Ron didn't Kiss unit 40%! I appreciate that this is a personal story and I feel bad that I didn't love it. I didn't hate it. The were some sweet moments and some quite profound moments. I especially like the part were Allie's mom told her " I don't think we choose love, but rather love chooses for us." So I am giving it a star rating of two. It was OK. It could of been better....Sara
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