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Formation Processes
An archeological dig, five weeks in Italy outside of Rome, and getting paid to assist with it. Beatrix Klassen knows it'll be worth putting up with her least favorite professor. But when Pascale Laurent shows up to fill in for her thesis supervisor, neither woman can deny the connection they seem to share. It becomes much more than a job, more than either of them can let themselves hope for. Even if their timing is absolutely terrible, they fall into a strange romance that will affect the rest of their lives. But when times change, can anything stay the same?
336 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 7, 2017
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July 25, 2020
**'Although some writers can get away with using multiple characters, subplots and themes in a story, certain storyline only needs one main protagonist, one plot and one strong, unifying theme..'
Okay read!
Maybe a bit too long but it's still enjoyable...
Okay read!
Maybe a bit too long but it's still enjoyable...
December 3, 2017
It takes place in the 80's which I think was the most interesting part to me. Seeing how difficult it was to be a woman, an academic and a lesbian at that time. It's a longish book and the first half really flew by but then there was some drawn out drama. Still good though also free on KU.
July 10, 2017
This was such a great read... I'm wishing there was about double the amount right now because for almost all of the book it's a bit cat and mouse. I'm head over heels for Pascale. I'm in loveeee with her! It's all my fault since I couldn't stop imagining her being played by Evelyn Brochu. The Brochu vibes are 100% for me and I'm not sure if that was intentional or not but it was very addicting.
I liked how intense this story was from the very start to the very finish. Starting on a dig site and having things be layed out as just ordinary work dynamics was great. I know about halfway through I looked at how much I had yet to read and I was like, WHOA how can there be that much more that can happen ontop of what's already happened? But then the second half was just as good as the first, so much so that I really want more right now!
I love that it's all the push and pull and the building of the relationship but this book really screams for a sequel. Like, a whole book where they're actually 100% in a relationship. Something tells me it wouldn't be all smooth sailing and sex. They're very different and I'd like to see all that in focus. When it wasn't being 100% sexy it was pretty serious and intense, always setting a time and a place and showing how things were very different just a few decades ago for those who were gay.
The relationship was believable and the characters were flawed in unique ways which was super realistic. I liked when the little fights would happen. When Beatrix would get upset about something and flip out a little. Sometimes there would be a fight and I'd be confused but then I'd remember, oh yea, these characters don't act like I would! So it was fun to watch that and wonder what was going to happen. A lot of people handle certain things differently and Beatrix was all about just having fun for the now and trying not to think ahead or even believe in some perfect future, what with her roots and her experiences in tow.
All-in-all, it's impossible not to fall in love with Pascale and that's what I'll take away most from this book. Pascale is like the dream... She's so smart and sexy and lovely and head over heels for Beatrix her entire life and it's so evident and ever present. I feel like her love for Bea cannot even be explained it's just this true and known thing that no one can deny or fight.
I would certainly read a sequel if it existed! There was nothing basic about this book and that's really hard to come by.
I WANT MORE!!!
I liked how intense this story was from the very start to the very finish. Starting on a dig site and having things be layed out as just ordinary work dynamics was great. I know about halfway through I looked at how much I had yet to read and I was like, WHOA how can there be that much more that can happen ontop of what's already happened? But then the second half was just as good as the first, so much so that I really want more right now!
I love that it's all the push and pull and the building of the relationship but this book really screams for a sequel. Like, a whole book where they're actually 100% in a relationship. Something tells me it wouldn't be all smooth sailing and sex. They're very different and I'd like to see all that in focus. When it wasn't being 100% sexy it was pretty serious and intense, always setting a time and a place and showing how things were very different just a few decades ago for those who were gay.
The relationship was believable and the characters were flawed in unique ways which was super realistic. I liked when the little fights would happen. When Beatrix would get upset about something and flip out a little. Sometimes there would be a fight and I'd be confused but then I'd remember, oh yea, these characters don't act like I would! So it was fun to watch that and wonder what was going to happen. A lot of people handle certain things differently and Beatrix was all about just having fun for the now and trying not to think ahead or even believe in some perfect future, what with her roots and her experiences in tow.
All-in-all, it's impossible not to fall in love with Pascale and that's what I'll take away most from this book. Pascale is like the dream... She's so smart and sexy and lovely and head over heels for Beatrix her entire life and it's so evident and ever present. I feel like her love for Bea cannot even be explained it's just this true and known thing that no one can deny or fight.
I would certainly read a sequel if it existed! There was nothing basic about this book and that's really hard to come by.
I WANT MORE!!!
July 21, 2019
Everything about this book looked like it would be incredibly interesting to me. Archaeology - ruins - on a dig in Italy; one of the main characters is French; other is American; seeing Lesbians interacting with the world in the 1970s would be cool (oddly enough, I know more about lesbians from the 19th century and from the 1930s to the 1960s through nonfiction reading; and from 1980s on from personal observation (okay, maybe more 1990s on? eh, whatever somewhere around there, definitely not 1970s though). So, as said, everything about this would be 'neat' to read.
But there's just 'something' about how everything is being presented to me that keeps jerking me out of the story. That's interrupting my ability to enjoy the story.
So this is two DNF's in a row. Technically this is the first of the two, just the second I 'officially' marked DNF. So my DNF-2018 shelf has now jumped from 6 books to 8.
June 22 2018
But there's just 'something' about how everything is being presented to me that keeps jerking me out of the story. That's interrupting my ability to enjoy the story.
So this is two DNF's in a row. Technically this is the first of the two, just the second I 'officially' marked DNF. So my DNF-2018 shelf has now jumped from 6 books to 8.
June 22 2018
July 21, 2017
Great story
This was a really great story. At times I really wanted to hit the main characters upside the head but then it really was a different time and people reacted differently.
This was a really great story. At times I really wanted to hit the main characters upside the head but then it really was a different time and people reacted differently.
July 22, 2017
...
Amazing. It held me to the end even if it was a bit too intense and long for my taste but amazing nevertheless!
Amazing. It held me to the end even if it was a bit too intense and long for my taste but amazing nevertheless!
March 21, 2019
I'll be perfectly honest: I almost gave up on this book after the first chapter. A good editor would have a field day with this book. The errors were plentiful enough that I couldn't focus much on the story at first. BUT I gathered up my courage, put my editor brain aside, and I trudged through, hoping there might be a story worth reading underneath the wayward punctuation marks and typos. I'm glad I did, because the story is really something. It's rare to find a lesbian romance story that A.) starts in the late 70s and B.) continues on until the late 90s, but the author does a great job of keeping the story moving, adding in small gaps of time and keeping consistent with the homophobia/AIDS fear that ran rampant during that time. I loved the theme of soul mates, of lovers who always find themselves together in past lives and probably in the future. The ending is perfect and wraps up the story nicely, giving the reader a feeling of completion but also hope.
But...the editing, or lack thereof... I just can't give anything better than 3 stars, and I'm feeling awful about it. Good stories should be taken care of and loved, and to see a good story be published with anything less than that breaks my little lesbian heart.
But...the editing, or lack thereof... I just can't give anything better than 3 stars, and I'm feeling awful about it. Good stories should be taken care of and loved, and to see a good story be published with anything less than that breaks my little lesbian heart.
July 30, 2018
Really enjoyed this book. Complex engaging characters; set in a time when being Gay was still very against accepted society norms - The 1970's and 80's! Highly recommended as a beautiful satisfying Lesbian romance, helps that the writing is outstanding.
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August 17, 2018
Wonderful
I really like the book on how is went from them meeting to them finally being together. I like out the author had brought the Aids epidemic into the book. It made it a lot more real about the health issues in the gay community.
I really like the book on how is went from them meeting to them finally being together. I like out the author had brought the Aids epidemic into the book. It made it a lot more real about the health issues in the gay community.
October 9, 2019
Unexpected
Awesome story,slow to start but a fantastic read! Bringing to light what same sex love and life was to some during the start of the AIDS epidemic.
Awesome story,slow to start but a fantastic read! Bringing to light what same sex love and life was to some during the start of the AIDS epidemic.
July 19, 2022
Absolutely beautiful story!
July 19, 2022
I enjoyed this book so much! I can't wait for more stories by this author!
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