Never Ending

Love #3

by Marianne K. Martin

“Marianne K. Martin is a wonderful storyteller and a graceful writer with a light, witty touch with language and a sensitivity to the emotions of people in love. There is a tenderness and brightness to her characterizations that make the personalities quite beguiling.”—Ann Bannon, author of the groundbreaking Beebo Brinker novels Sage Bristo is a woman of conviction. Four years into her relationship with Deanne, Sage faces the limits of love, trust, understanding, and commitment, and the emotions run strong. As always, Martin keeps us hooked until the very last page. Among her varied careers, Marianne K. Martin has been a public school teacher, photojournalist, and collegiate coach. She currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Genres: Lesbian Fiction, Fiction

220 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1999

About the author

A graduate of Eastern Michigan University, Ms Martin taught in the Michigan public school system for twenty-five years, has worked as a photo-journalist, a photographer, and coached both high school and collegiate teams as well as amateur ASA teams. Her coaching career produced many Tri-County and MHSAA championship basketball and softball teams and championship ASA softball teams. She was founder of the Michigan Woman's Major Fastpitch Assoc. and its president for ten years. In 1973 she won the precedent-setting case in a Michigan court establishing equal pay for women coaches.

Ms Martin is the best-selling author of Legacy of Love, Love in the Balance, Never Ending, Dawn of the Dance, Dance in the Key of Love, and three Lambda Literary Award finalists, Mirrors, Under the Witness Tree, and For Now, For Always.

Her short stories have been included in a number of anthologies. Her most recent, Fire and Ice, appears in the second edition of the on-line issue of Read These Lips.

She is co-owner of Bywater Books and currently splits her time between her publishing responsibilities and writing.

Reviews

[Dide · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is more 3.3 rating, when I got this book I somehow misread and thought it was the sequel but realised after that it was the 3rd in the series. So I was a bit lost trying to catch up but asides that it was unadventurous. No excitement per se, the only time I encountered one was Sage and Tia's rendezvous... Before and after that, nothing. The author may disagree with me of course, there are some supposed twist but they just weren't exciting enough

[Jen · Rating 5 out of 5]

The long-lasting, long-living legacy of the hatred of "others"

“Her grandmother was gone. And when the tears that accepted that began to flow, there began an understanding of what it meant to lose something irreplaceable.”

“Is it possible for civilized society to ever cure the poverty it has created?”
—Thomas Paine, “Agrarian Justice”
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This book addresses the long-lasting, long-living legacy in the hatred of "others" that has defined, developed, degraded, derailed, divided & consequentially destroyed America from its colonial "discovery" to its genocidal conquering to its generational prejudices til its violent conviction & consumption of itself.
If it's not race, its gender, or sexuality or class— so much hate just to cause so much harm… for what??…

[Kimberly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the sequel, but feel it was rushed at the end. I know that all the questioned were answered, but it ended very abruptly. Deanna was really getting on my nerves with whole trust issue and this "decision" that she had to make. It is reality that some must face in relationships, but carrying the baggage from past hurts are never a benefit. What happened to the communication between Sage and Deanna to make that even possible?

[Bywater Books · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sage Bristo is a woman of conviction. Four years into her relationship with Deanne, Sage faces the limits of love, trust, understanding, and commitment and the emotions run strong.

[Kennedy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay. Good follow-up to the first story.