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Saving Grace
I wanted to ask for a divorce.
Instead of the fight I expected, she agreed—with a few stipulations, all of which revolved around our son leaving for college in the fall.
Keeping those promises would be a challenge, no doubt. But all I had to do was uphold my end of the deal then walk away without a backward glance.
Somewhere along the way, our charade became my reality.
With each day that passes, I realize time is once again my enemy. I can’t lose her a second time. I’ll never walk away—she healed my soul.
Saving Grace is now my only hope.
Instead of the fight I expected, she agreed—with a few stipulations, all of which revolved around our son leaving for college in the fall.
Keeping those promises would be a challenge, no doubt. But all I had to do was uphold my end of the deal then walk away without a backward glance.
Somewhere along the way, our charade became my reality.
With each day that passes, I realize time is once again my enemy. I can’t lose her a second time. I’ll never walk away—she healed my soul.
Saving Grace is now my only hope.
236 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2017
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December 30, 2017
I am maybe too hard hearted but I can’t get over his cheating for 6 months and actually thinking he was in love with that skank Tammy. This book made me uncomfortable because I really admired and liked Grace as a mother but I still think she is a much different person than me as I don’t think I could have forgiven my husband for lying and cheating just because he felt neglected. I will also say that as a woman I felt let down by Grace just forgiving him. I feel Grace’s martyr behaviour showed that it’s ok to cheat because death is more important. What happened to self respect and having respect for each other? This storyline was not well done and truthfully I expected better from this author!
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December 28, 2017I read this book because I was interested on how the heroine was going to deal with this cheating bastard.
Sad to say she didn't deal how I wanted her to deal.
Btw this reminds me of a video I saw on Facebook where the husband ask the wife for a divorce because he doesn't love her, so the wife makes him stay with her because of "their kid" the husband ends up loving again the wife and wife ends up dying. Well here we got cheating bastard in love with the ow and wife dying of cancer (she doesn't die btw) Now I wonder if the author got the idea of this book from that video? This was exactly like that. It would have been fitting if she died and the hero would have to live with it because no amount of remorse it would have been good enough. But that's just me. I'm a bitch and I wouldn't have forgiven him even on my death bed.
Now if this was me? I would have punch his balls out. Kicked his ass out. Taken him to the cleaners.
But what does the heroine do?
She asked him for 9 months, 9 months so their son can spend time with his father. She sounded like the son was a 5 year old instead of a 18 year old guy or like the son was on his death bed and needed those last months? Then she asked him to go get himself check for stds. If she asked him to do this for me that only meant she wanted to sleep with him again.
If that were me? I wouldn't pee in the same toilet as him. I would bleach everywhere he sits. I would even bleached the damn dishes. But I guess everyone deals with cheaters differently.
And then all of the sudden after saying and thinking that he loved the ow, how he threw the ow in the heroine's face he wants to be a husband and a father?
Sure I know he tries but I can't forget the cheating.
Sad to say she didn't deal how I wanted her to deal.
Btw this reminds me of a video I saw on Facebook where the husband ask the wife for a divorce because he doesn't love her, so the wife makes him stay with her because of "their kid" the husband ends up loving again the wife and wife ends up dying. Well here we got cheating bastard in love with the ow and wife dying of cancer (she doesn't die btw) Now I wonder if the author got the idea of this book from that video? This was exactly like that. It would have been fitting if she died and the hero would have to live with it because no amount of remorse it would have been good enough. But that's just me. I'm a bitch and I wouldn't have forgiven him even on my death bed.
Now if this was me? I would have punch his balls out. Kicked his ass out. Taken him to the cleaners.
But what does the heroine do?
She asked him for 9 months, 9 months so their son can spend time with his father. She sounded like the son was a 5 year old instead of a 18 year old guy or like the son was on his death bed and needed those last months? Then she asked him to go get himself check for stds. If she asked him to do this for me that only meant she wanted to sleep with him again.
If that were me? I wouldn't pee in the same toilet as him. I would bleach everywhere he sits. I would even bleached the damn dishes. But I guess everyone deals with cheaters differently.
And then all of the sudden after saying and thinking that he loved the ow, how he threw the ow in the heroine's face he wants to be a husband and a father?
Sure I know he tries but I can't forget the cheating.
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December 30, 2017She forgives the cheating husband who wanted to divorce her! Nope, I can't stand that!
April 24, 2018
I am still falling off my chair laughing, cause there is romantic fantasy and then there is just plain tripping on the 'shroom's.
This book is definitely the latter. Look, men cheat, it happens and I wasn't surprised the husband fell out of 'love' as quickly as he fell in it. He is a middle-aged guy with a grudge who probably wasn't all that smart to begin with and he has a lifetime of whining when things aren't handed to him on a silver platter.
(He continues to whine throughout the book and I really felt like offering him a nice little Gouda to round out that whine.)
No, what really threw me on this one is the wife. She knows about the cheating and her response is pretty much text book perfect from a few save your marriage books and websites. She doesn't go have a bonfire of all the hubby's possessions on the front lawn and threaten death, destruction and the lamentation of his latest mistress, nope she has a son to think of and a secret and so she practices the art of the deal instead.
Continuing on with the textbook theoretical 'Save this marriage' case, the husband decides after three weeks of actually participating in the family life, (instead of sulking off in a corner cause he did not get to do what he wanted for the last 18 years,) he really loves his wife.
She cooks, cleans and can really make whites totally pop and now that the son is out of diapers and the troubled teen years, it is absolutely great to be a dad - the hard work is finished and he can reap the rewards without ever having to lift a brow.
(Honestly, he was too worried about his own little babyish spoilt self to love anyone else. But that is another subject.)
Then the whole reason for the big showdown and negotiation is revealed - the wife has terminal cancer with an incredibly bad prognosis. So on one hand, it is kinda easy to see why she takes the path of least resistance and doesn't even bother discussing his extra-curricular wick dipping activities for the last six months.
On the other, even her reaction to cancer was so far out in NeverNever Land that I was at first flabbergasted and then hysterical, cause let me tell ya folks, I worked oncology for almost 15 years and it don't happen like that.
This woman had the calm of Yoda and Obi Wan combined and the few times she actually has a teensy weensy bit of self sorrow, she or her BFF snap her right out of it and she puts on her happy face and gets on with the game plan of happy families until her inevitable decline. (Which doesn't happen in the story BTW.)
The main problem with this book is that the angsty drama is all surface fertilizer. The wife is much too calm and controlled to really stir up a ton of empathy because there is literally no substance to her character, she is the matyred mother and wife who has to keep on keeping on - we can't even get the humor of a Mrs. Miniver.
The husband is the cardboard prototype of midlife crisis cheating idiots everywhere and so the entire story comes across as emotional porn and not a real look at a real situation.
Frankly we can't even begin to really believe the husband's sincerity, his whining switches from how much his wife has taken away from his life to whining about how much losing his wife is going to be hard on him, (cause who will wash his grimy, sweaty socks and pander to his widening rear end?)
However given his rebound Teflon effect and bouncing rubber brain, we know that approximately a month after his wife's funeral he will be hooked up with another 23 year old with perky protuberances and then he will find something else to whine about - and since his wife's family will be dumping a ton of cash on him as well, hopefully he can go buy a nice private island in Antartica and spare his neighbors and friends the vast majority of his whining.
(Hell, Daniel Steel's Lightning did it better than this and the husband in that was atrocious - but at least there was an honest plumbing of the characters and not a one of them pretended to be the second coming of the Buddha and not one of the scenes in that book felt like a blatant bid to manipulate some drama. )
This book ultimately felt fake, it felt manipulative and it really amounted to no more than an grossly maneuvered attempt at mental emotional masturbation. I don't mind a cheating story. I don't even mind a minimal redemptive attempt on the part of the cheater either.
However, I do mind being set up into a fake real life pseudo-reality dramarama angstfest that reads like someone writing on some seriously good drugs with no connection to reality. Plus, I REALLY mind being so blatantly manipulated in the writing that I am actually having to stop reading at parts, because the whole thing is so hysterically trite that I have to go gulp some water to recover from the hiccups I got from laughing.
So this book was not a winner for me, and that is pretty much a shame. There was a germ of a good story, but the robotic textbook precision zen-like actions of the betrayed, coupled with the sheer mediocrity of the betrayer was just a shallow surface skim of what could have been a really intense and riveting look at a marriage betrayed.
This book is definitely the latter. Look, men cheat, it happens and I wasn't surprised the husband fell out of 'love' as quickly as he fell in it. He is a middle-aged guy with a grudge who probably wasn't all that smart to begin with and he has a lifetime of whining when things aren't handed to him on a silver platter.
(He continues to whine throughout the book and I really felt like offering him a nice little Gouda to round out that whine.)
No, what really threw me on this one is the wife. She knows about the cheating and her response is pretty much text book perfect from a few save your marriage books and websites. She doesn't go have a bonfire of all the hubby's possessions on the front lawn and threaten death, destruction and the lamentation of his latest mistress, nope she has a son to think of and a secret and so she practices the art of the deal instead.
Continuing on with the textbook theoretical 'Save this marriage' case, the husband decides after three weeks of actually participating in the family life, (instead of sulking off in a corner cause he did not get to do what he wanted for the last 18 years,) he really loves his wife.
She cooks, cleans and can really make whites totally pop and now that the son is out of diapers and the troubled teen years, it is absolutely great to be a dad - the hard work is finished and he can reap the rewards without ever having to lift a brow.
(Honestly, he was too worried about his own little babyish spoilt self to love anyone else. But that is another subject.)
Then the whole reason for the big showdown and negotiation is revealed - the wife has terminal cancer with an incredibly bad prognosis. So on one hand, it is kinda easy to see why she takes the path of least resistance and doesn't even bother discussing his extra-curricular wick dipping activities for the last six months.
On the other, even her reaction to cancer was so far out in NeverNever Land that I was at first flabbergasted and then hysterical, cause let me tell ya folks, I worked oncology for almost 15 years and it don't happen like that.
This woman had the calm of Yoda and Obi Wan combined and the few times she actually has a teensy weensy bit of self sorrow, she or her BFF snap her right out of it and she puts on her happy face and gets on with the game plan of happy families until her inevitable decline. (Which doesn't happen in the story BTW.)
The main problem with this book is that the angsty drama is all surface fertilizer. The wife is much too calm and controlled to really stir up a ton of empathy because there is literally no substance to her character, she is the matyred mother and wife who has to keep on keeping on - we can't even get the humor of a Mrs. Miniver.
The husband is the cardboard prototype of midlife crisis cheating idiots everywhere and so the entire story comes across as emotional porn and not a real look at a real situation.
Frankly we can't even begin to really believe the husband's sincerity, his whining switches from how much his wife has taken away from his life to whining about how much losing his wife is going to be hard on him, (cause who will wash his grimy, sweaty socks and pander to his widening rear end?)
However given his rebound Teflon effect and bouncing rubber brain, we know that approximately a month after his wife's funeral he will be hooked up with another 23 year old with perky protuberances and then he will find something else to whine about - and since his wife's family will be dumping a ton of cash on him as well, hopefully he can go buy a nice private island in Antartica and spare his neighbors and friends the vast majority of his whining.
(Hell, Daniel Steel's Lightning did it better than this and the husband in that was atrocious - but at least there was an honest plumbing of the characters and not a one of them pretended to be the second coming of the Buddha and not one of the scenes in that book felt like a blatant bid to manipulate some drama. )
This book ultimately felt fake, it felt manipulative and it really amounted to no more than an grossly maneuvered attempt at mental emotional masturbation. I don't mind a cheating story. I don't even mind a minimal redemptive attempt on the part of the cheater either.
However, I do mind being set up into a fake real life pseudo-reality dramarama angstfest that reads like someone writing on some seriously good drugs with no connection to reality. Plus, I REALLY mind being so blatantly manipulated in the writing that I am actually having to stop reading at parts, because the whole thing is so hysterically trite that I have to go gulp some water to recover from the hiccups I got from laughing.
So this book was not a winner for me, and that is pretty much a shame. There was a germ of a good story, but the robotic textbook precision zen-like actions of the betrayed, coupled with the sheer mediocrity of the betrayer was just a shallow surface skim of what could have been a really intense and riveting look at a marriage betrayed.
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December 28, 2017
I know he was trying but I just couldn't get over his cheating
April 15, 2019
Going into this story I knew this was about a married couple where the husband cheats on his wife.
Cheating in romances - and of course in real life - is always a sore point obviously, for both genders. Normally I prefer my romance book safe. I am making only one exception here and that is with couples that are married for a long time an try for a second-chance. There can be something painfully beautiful in stories that show just how much work someone has to put in a relationship to make it not only last, but also to make both partners happy. After twenty years it is more understandable for me when one of them is getting lazy in that department or is battle wary or whatever.
The question here is: is it worth to work through the pain? To risk and try again? To hurt and be hurt?
This realization and this kind of communication is what I am expecting from those kind of second chance romances.
This book failed for me. Utterly. Firstly I hated the fact that his affair wasn‘t just a fling, but he thought he was in love with her and wanted to divorce his wife because of this. This was going on for six months and not just a mistake on his part. Then how everything came to light and how he handled it with this horrendous phone call, was rather disgusting. I can absolutely respect his position that he fell out of love with his wife and thought they were too far apart and distant to ever work again, but his utter disrespect for her, how he reacted, how he did not apologize, how he did nothing at all... it was nauseating. This was woman has been by his side for how long? 15 or 18 years? There was no real bad blood, and he didn‘t do it to hurt her, but god fuckin damnit one shouldn‘t even treat his dog like this.
His character was my greatest problem, not only the beginning was awful but his whole behaviour later, how cruel he disregarded the affair he supposedly „loved“, how he reacted when he got the news of her disease, how he didn’t feel a connection to his son, because he was the third wheel?, always thinking about himself first. This may change a little till the end of the book, but wasn‘t nearly enough to redeem him for me. He was nothing but a human pig to me, I could not get over his behaviour and appreciate the good things he did for her. (What exactly? Spend time with his son? Buy her rings?)
And for fucks sake, why is he babbling all the time about his broken soul? He was a simple, normal human being with a regular childhood, parents who loved him and life that threw him a child too early, that’s all for gods sake.
Then the next part ... there was almost no real communication between them. He is three weeks away from his fuckbunny, decides he wants to stay with his wife and that’s kinda it. They don‘t talk it through, nothing. This is exactly how they got into this situation in the first place. Simply spending time with each other may help, but it doesn‘t solve the fucking problem!
But to be honest there also wasn‘t really time for this kind of conversations because well - surprise, who would have seen that coming? *bigeyeroll* - then comes the cancer. This was too much drama, while both isn‘t handled really well in my opinion, the second part of the book was for nothing good but for drama and being a tearjerker. The first trope was obviously too much, there should not have been added an even bigger one.
So this didn‘t work for me at all unfortunately.
Cheating in romances - and of course in real life - is always a sore point obviously, for both genders. Normally I prefer my romance book safe. I am making only one exception here and that is with couples that are married for a long time an try for a second-chance. There can be something painfully beautiful in stories that show just how much work someone has to put in a relationship to make it not only last, but also to make both partners happy. After twenty years it is more understandable for me when one of them is getting lazy in that department or is battle wary or whatever.
The question here is: is it worth to work through the pain? To risk and try again? To hurt and be hurt?
This realization and this kind of communication is what I am expecting from those kind of second chance romances.
This book failed for me. Utterly. Firstly I hated the fact that his affair wasn‘t just a fling, but he thought he was in love with her and wanted to divorce his wife because of this. This was going on for six months and not just a mistake on his part. Then how everything came to light and how he handled it with this horrendous phone call, was rather disgusting. I can absolutely respect his position that he fell out of love with his wife and thought they were too far apart and distant to ever work again, but his utter disrespect for her, how he reacted, how he did not apologize, how he did nothing at all... it was nauseating. This was woman has been by his side for how long? 15 or 18 years? There was no real bad blood, and he didn‘t do it to hurt her, but god fuckin damnit one shouldn‘t even treat his dog like this.
His character was my greatest problem, not only the beginning was awful but his whole behaviour later, how cruel he disregarded the affair he supposedly „loved“, how he reacted when he got the news of her disease, how he didn’t feel a connection to his son, because he was the third wheel?, always thinking about himself first. This may change a little till the end of the book, but wasn‘t nearly enough to redeem him for me. He was nothing but a human pig to me, I could not get over his behaviour and appreciate the good things he did for her. (What exactly? Spend time with his son? Buy her rings?)
And for fucks sake, why is he babbling all the time about his broken soul? He was a simple, normal human being with a regular childhood, parents who loved him and life that threw him a child too early, that’s all for gods sake.
Then the next part ... there was almost no real communication between them. He is three weeks away from his fuckbunny, decides he wants to stay with his wife and that’s kinda it. They don‘t talk it through, nothing. This is exactly how they got into this situation in the first place. Simply spending time with each other may help, but it doesn‘t solve the fucking problem!
But to be honest there also wasn‘t really time for this kind of conversations because well - surprise, who would have seen that coming? *bigeyeroll* - then comes the cancer. This was too much drama, while both isn‘t handled really well in my opinion, the second part of the book was for nothing good but for drama and being a tearjerker. The first trope was obviously too much, there should not have been added an even bigger one.
So this didn‘t work for me at all unfortunately.
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August 27, 2020
I must be a cynical and bitter bitch because the hero did not convince me at any moment.
I fully understand our heroine's need to protect her son. When she is no longer present the young man will need a lot of parental support and if he hates the cheating father this will not happen. He'll be all alone.
Te hero goes from completely in love with the other woman and having great sex and planning a new life without the strings of having a wife and son... for a man in love with his wife and a dedicated father in a flash. Unbelievable!
And he still has the courage to be jealous by imagining that his wife is cheating him, and being possessive and caveman by saying that she is his alone and only he has the right to touch her. Double standard. He did not think about it when he was having hot sex with his younger lover. SOB!
I wanted to castrate him and bury him in the woods.
Throughout history we see that her son was not the naive she imagined and he was already aware of much and yet he continued to love his mother who always supported and loved him unconditionally and his father even full of defects.
He was forgiven by everyone in the family and also was full of money ... now just wait to spouse finally die to be free.
Yes, I am cynical and bitter.
I fully understand our heroine's need to protect her son. When she is no longer present the young man will need a lot of parental support and if he hates the cheating father this will not happen. He'll be all alone.
Te hero goes from completely in love with the other woman and having great sex and planning a new life without the strings of having a wife and son... for a man in love with his wife and a dedicated father in a flash. Unbelievable!
And he still has the courage to be jealous by imagining that his wife is cheating him, and being possessive and caveman by saying that she is his alone and only he has the right to touch her. Double standard. He did not think about it when he was having hot sex with his younger lover. SOB!
I wanted to castrate him and bury him in the woods.
Throughout history we see that her son was not the naive she imagined and he was already aware of much and yet he continued to love his mother who always supported and loved him unconditionally and his father even full of defects.
He was forgiven by everyone in the family and also was full of money ... now just wait to spouse finally die to be free.
Yes, I am cynical and bitter.
The love we used to share is gone, and I don’t see any way we can get it back.
“I know about Tammy.” Her voice is so calm and collected, I question for a second if I imagined her words. “And I know you’ve been planning to ask me for a divorce for some time now so you can be free to run away with her. You think if you leave all your responsibilities behind, you can be the carefree teenager you were before we married.”
“Then you found someone else, and our relationship never had a chance. So you think Tammy makes you happy, and she makes you feel like a man again. You have a chance at a new life with her, to regain your vitality and feel alive again.”
A divorce is not what’s best right now. This is Kyle’s senior year of high school, and he deserves the best we can give him. Your running off with your little whore is nowhere in the same realm as what’s best for him.
“Let me guess,” she continued her rant. “She’s in her twenties. No kids. Flat stomach. Perky breasts. And no real-life experiences to jade her.” “Wow, Leigh, sounds like you’ve met Tammy George before.”
He’s been seeing her for about six months, though.
“Kyle and his girlfriend were here the other evening…when you weren’t…and I noticed him treating her with the same disregard you show me. They had a fight about it, and I talked to him after he took her home. You’re already rubbing off on him.”
I run my hand through my hair in frustration. Nine months without seeing, hearing, or touching Tammy? How am I supposed to do that when I’m in love with her? When I can’t wait to see her every day? When I rush to work just because I know she’s there?
“I expect you to go out of your way to avoid seeing her, taking her phone calls, reading her texts, or anything else to do with her. But quitting your job won’t be necessary. I had a long talk with your boss. There’s a no-fraternization rule in the office, you know. Both of you could be—and should be—fired for your actions. But Rob has agreed to let you work from home instead of going into the office. You can still visit your doctors, but if you go back into the office without his permission, you’ll both be fired.”
Thinking with your dick instead of your head will do that to you
My word doesn’t mean much now, I know. But I promise I will stick to your rules until the day after Kyle leaves for college. Then you and I will go our separate ways.
"When Blake is available to catch up with your masturbation schedule, he’ll let you know.”
But not seeing, hearing, or touching Tammy for that long will be pure hell.
Just when I started to feel alive again, the carpet gets yanked out from under my feet.
Though I’ve known about Tammy for a while, hearing her voice and the things she said to my husband were too much to take.
“Yeah, that’s what they’re predicting. Tammy said…” His voice fades away, aware of the blunder he just made.
Every day, I’d assure Tammy I would tell Grace that night.
I thought I’d tell her we were over and I was moving on with Tammy. I thought Tammy and I would move in together. I thought I’d finally be happy again. Instead, I’m going up to my office to clear it out, to take home the things I need to do my job. I’m leaving the woman I love behind for the next nine months.
“Come on, Dad. You’re working at home all of a sudden, and now you’re making all these plans to do family holiday stuff. You’ve never done that before. Who’s dying?”
“Yeah, why’d you take her to work? You never carpool.” I shrug, hiding my guilt.
“Blake, I think you need to go get checked for STDs. You may trust her, but you just never know what someone you trusted is capable of hiding from you.”
"She’s your soul mate, huh?” “Maybe she is. She certainly acts more like it than you do. She looks at me like I’m the sexiest man alive. She wants to be with me, to talk to me, to touch me. You haven’t even looked at me in I don’t know how long, much less wanted me. You’ve been in your own little world, focused only on Kyle. That’s fine—you should’ve been active in his life, but not his exclusively. Not to the point I’m shut out of your life.” “Well, I guess you were just the perfect husband for the last eighteen years, and I’ve always been your shitty wife.
You’ve blamed us for why you had to put your dream of going to medical school behind you.
But I can’t live in a loveless marriage anymore.
Tammy’s very young, and she’ll eventually want a baby. If she waits until she’s thirty, I’ll be retired when our child graduates high school and moves out.
I wished Grace would look at me the way Tammy does now.
“He has a young girlfriend he wants a forever life with, Leigh. He’s been making plans to leave me to be with her for a while now. That’s not the kind of thing I can just forget.
showering her with the attention he denied me. So, when he was on one of his business trips, quote unquote, I checked up on him. He was with her.
Kyle, I had to face how selfish I’ve become over the years. I’ve been so consumed with myself, I didn’t even notice how much they’d suffered because of my focus on work and career and money, when all they wanted was a little more of my time and attention.
He’s playing a part for Kyle, to teach him how to treat a woman. Does he do all of this for her?
he didn’t tell her it was over between them. He just reiterated that his reason for being here is Kyle—reestablishing and building his relationship with his son.
You’ve been seeing someone else for six months behind my back. You had plans to divorce me and be with your new soul mate. Three weeks of pretending to care about me is hardly enough to make me believe you’ve suddenly changed.
“I’m so sorry, Grace. For this—her showing up here. For everything. I’m such a fucking idiot.”
THE MISTRESS==>“I’m here because she is trying to take you away from me. I love you, Blake. Leave her. I miss you so much,” she begs loudly while slurring her words. “That old bitch doesn’t love you or appreciate you. I do. I’m the one you love and the one you want.”
“You! You did this. You and your demands on him. He doesn’t love you—he loves me. Why don’t you just let him go and save some of your dignity? You’re pathetic.”
When she gets close enough, she rears her fist back and prepares to punch me, but I stop her cold with a hard jab to her nose. I feel her flesh give way under my knuckles and hear the crunch of bone as it breaks. She flies backward, landing in the grass on her back. Blood streams out of her nose and smears across her cheek.
==>double standard<==“You belong to me, Grace,” he says between wet kisses against my skin. “All of you. I won’t share you. I’ll fight until my last breath for you.”
==>double standard<==“There hasn’t been anyone else for you. Has there?” I already know the answer, but I need to hear the words. She shakes her head from side to side, but her gaze never strays from mine. The truth is there in the depths of her beautiful emerald green eyes. “No, there hasn’t been.”
A doctor isn’t taking my wife away from me. Cancer is.
==>There will always be doubt and distrust<==How will I ever be able to compete with Tammy in Blake’s eyes? She’s younger, prettier, and healthier. I’ll never be that woman again. How can Blake ever be physically attracted to me again? I don’t look the same anymore, and all the makeup and plastic in the world won’t change that fact.
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avoid
August 20, 2020This one was a fucking nuisance and no he didn’t deserve forgiveness.
If you loved this book and get butt hurt by my non review that’s on you.
Hero was a piece of shit.
If you’re going to tell me he earned forgiveness you better come with the proof that your standards of morals, grovel and repenting is the internationally acknowledged standards with Harvard style references.
You need to be able to tell me how much is enough grovelling for cheating and how he earns forgiveness unless he can go back to past and uncheat.
It is also laughable that the author seems to think her book sends any kind of message other than glorifying cheating. Because there was zero character growth from hero, zero ownership and zero learning from his mistakes. And the heroine was in fact for lack of better words, a doormat. The author can deny all these. She can post 50 post claiming the opposite. Except she wrote the book, it’s now out of her hands and her opinion on this matter is now irrelevant. She doesn’t get to tell us oh there was character growth, you read it wrong when she fails to convey the message. That’s on her. This book was a terrible failure keeping aside the unsafe aspect. There was no reason for heroine to forgive him as he didn’t work for the forgiveness. The writing was childish at best appalling at worst. If you feel like self promoting please do so, wouldn’t change the facts.
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If you loved this book and get butt hurt by my non review that’s on you.
Hero was a piece of shit.
If you’re going to tell me he earned forgiveness you better come with the proof that your standards of morals, grovel and repenting is the internationally acknowledged standards with Harvard style references.
You need to be able to tell me how much is enough grovelling for cheating and how he earns forgiveness unless he can go back to past and uncheat.
It is also laughable that the author seems to think her book sends any kind of message other than glorifying cheating. Because there was zero character growth from hero, zero ownership and zero learning from his mistakes. And the heroine was in fact for lack of better words, a doormat. The author can deny all these. She can post 50 post claiming the opposite. Except she wrote the book, it’s now out of her hands and her opinion on this matter is now irrelevant. She doesn’t get to tell us oh there was character growth, you read it wrong when she fails to convey the message. That’s on her. This book was a terrible failure keeping aside the unsafe aspect. There was no reason for heroine to forgive him as he didn’t work for the forgiveness. The writing was childish at best appalling at worst. If you feel like self promoting please do so, wouldn’t change the facts.
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hell-fucking-no
January 13, 2018Not only does the hero cheat on his wife with cancer but the author actually attacks readers that find this disgusting. If you’re too much of a snowflake to take criticism of your book then maybe you should take up another hobby. Don’t write if you can’t handle negative feedback.
stay-away-from-bad-plot-or-cheating
December 29, 2017Infidelity is never sexy sorry not sorry
October 29, 2020
DNF @ 62%. *****SPOILERS AHEAD*****
Another book that you don't get the full picture of what is going on until you get into the story.
The synopsis doesn't give the full picture.
This has two elements I dislike in a storyline - cheating and cancer and I really wish that before I invested the time reading this that I was given a clue about the plot. I can deal with the cheating H but I can't deal with cheating and Cancer. Once again we have a synopsis that is too vague and it no mention of what you are about to read.
So after getting to the 62% mark I stopped reading as you can more or less guess where the story is going.
She'll forgive his sorry ass!
Another book that you don't get the full picture of what is going on until you get into the story.
The synopsis doesn't give the full picture.
This has two elements I dislike in a storyline - cheating and cancer and I really wish that before I invested the time reading this that I was given a clue about the plot. I can deal with the cheating H but I can't deal with cheating and Cancer. Once again we have a synopsis that is too vague and it no mention of what you are about to read.
So after getting to the 62% mark I stopped reading as you can more or less guess where the story is going.
She'll forgive his sorry ass!
no-way-jose
December 29, 2017
avoid
January 13, 2018"Life" and "love" themes do not instantly make a tale romance. A man and woman who are married does not make a story romance either. Dying wife and cheating husband are about as unromantic as it gets. There comes a point where a story is so far "out of the box" that it's not even on the shelf anymore, and in this case it's not on the romance section shelf because it's not romance, it's a different genre. It's drama-fiction.
Many readers like myself come to the contemporary romance genre to escape. The genre is largely defined as positive presentations of love so it's not an unrealistic expectation. When I leave my reading "comfort zone," I pick up a non-fiction book that's actually going to expand my knowledge of a subject with facts written by experts in their field. But when I browse books being marketed as romance, I expect romantic content, which is why this title is a big PASS for me and many of my wonderful GR friends in the Romance Safety book groups. We aren't a book patrol. We are a group of readers who help each other out with books selections and discuss the books we might want to read, have read, and don't want to touch. That's part of a reading group in a book community. Oops, here we go pointing out the obvious again. ;-)
Many readers like myself come to the contemporary romance genre to escape. The genre is largely defined as positive presentations of love so it's not an unrealistic expectation. When I leave my reading "comfort zone," I pick up a non-fiction book that's actually going to expand my knowledge of a subject with facts written by experts in their field. But when I browse books being marketed as romance, I expect romantic content, which is why this title is a big PASS for me and many of my wonderful GR friends in the Romance Safety book groups. We aren't a book patrol. We are a group of readers who help each other out with books selections and discuss the books we might want to read, have read, and don't want to touch. That's part of a reading group in a book community. Oops, here we go pointing out the obvious again. ;-)
December 29, 2017
I'm unsure where my head is at with this book.
December 28, 2017
He didn‘t deserve a second Chance. Selfish selfish man !!hated him.
July 24, 2020
The story wasn't bad, and I felt for Grace's predicament, despite her letting her husband off WAY too easily. I wish this story had elicited a lot more of the angst and heartbreak I that I always crave from a cheating story like this one. This one just missed that mark.
January 22, 2023
This book has lots of elements that don't work for me but still I managed to read it in one go. I can understand all the bad reviews too. But I intend to go easy on it.
There are two big 'things' going on in the book, and the book begins with the h formulating a plan to deal with both - one is a cheating husband and that is brought out in the open in the first few pages while the other is revealed later on.
There are two big 'things' going on in the book, and the book begins with the h formulating a plan to deal with both - one is a cheating husband and that is brought out in the open in the first few pages while the other is revealed later on.
December 30, 2017
Ugh, no. I don't think the author had the writing ability to pull this off. I get angry every time I think about our "hero". He didn't even apologize.
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January 25, 2018So I'm trying to read different things, after so many years of reading I want to find things new and try things I normally wouldn't read. Unfortunately this book was a very bad choice for me but I will say I went into this book having no information about it but the blurb so I probably should have gotten some information and I would have known this book was not for me. I liked the writing style and thats about it. The "hero" (I know you see those quotes) was a JERK. Flat out a horrible person, we get his POV so we get his horrible mean, selfish, idiotic thoughts. Which actually makes it worse. I felt bad for the heroine the heroes wife however This design made me cringe and if all we see about the husband is true I wonder if the son would have been better with just his mom. This book is not for the squeamish we get nice p close details about the "heroes" . This one is a DNF for me. I know some will like it but this is not a safe book in fact its very, very, very far from a safe book.
December 26, 2017
Saving Grace...how sweet the sound. I've read it so I know she is pretty amazing. (I am allowed to make bad and corny jokes because it's how I cope.)
While I was plotting evil tricks and juvenile responses, Grace was using her calm to strike a deal. While she was thinking of others and the future, I was thinking of right now. My mind came up with instantly gratifying situations to deal with one if my deepest fears...a love lost.
It's probably cliche to say I want to be Grace when I grow up...since I'm already older than she is. But I want the strength of character that she has and honestly, I'm jealous. She is a beautiful person through and through. Is she a saint? No but she I put in a nomination.
Life is a series of choices. Saving Grace should be one of yours. It's sweet, charming, and heartbreaking. It's trust lost, love hiding, and time fleeing. It's about learning to love again. Its about learning yourself again. Too many of us drift...through life, our marriages, and parenting.
Saving Grace has such a great meanings. Meanings- yes, you read that correctly. You just have to take my word and snotty tears for it. (Don't pretend you are above the snot bubble tears. Even with AD Justice laughing at you, you can't deny that it happens. Though no pictures were taken so there is no proof.- Thankfully! It's hard enough to live down telling everyone but pictures of snot bubbled, red eyed Becky with puffy face and tears....yeah, no thanks. My dignity is already pretty sad.) Seriously, I was a mess. So heads up...
Smores
Tissues
Fire pits
And lists welcome!
Chicks named Tammy, proceed with caution!
Just remember, I warned you. Because it's called Saving Grace...I don't have to save you. Just warn you...
Lines maybe drawn in the sand but winds and lines can change. Life is never what we plan but what we make of it. Because why not?
While I was plotting evil tricks and juvenile responses, Grace was using her calm to strike a deal. While she was thinking of others and the future, I was thinking of right now. My mind came up with instantly gratifying situations to deal with one if my deepest fears...a love lost.
It's probably cliche to say I want to be Grace when I grow up...since I'm already older than she is. But I want the strength of character that she has and honestly, I'm jealous. She is a beautiful person through and through. Is she a saint? No but she I put in a nomination.
Life is a series of choices. Saving Grace should be one of yours. It's sweet, charming, and heartbreaking. It's trust lost, love hiding, and time fleeing. It's about learning to love again. Its about learning yourself again. Too many of us drift...through life, our marriages, and parenting.
Saving Grace has such a great meanings. Meanings- yes, you read that correctly. You just have to take my word and snotty tears for it. (Don't pretend you are above the snot bubble tears. Even with AD Justice laughing at you, you can't deny that it happens. Though no pictures were taken so there is no proof.- Thankfully! It's hard enough to live down telling everyone but pictures of snot bubbled, red eyed Becky with puffy face and tears....yeah, no thanks. My dignity is already pretty sad.) Seriously, I was a mess. So heads up...
Smores
Tissues
Fire pits
And lists welcome!
Chicks named Tammy, proceed with caution!
Just remember, I warned you. Because it's called Saving Grace...I don't have to save you. Just warn you...
Lines maybe drawn in the sand but winds and lines can change. Life is never what we plan but what we make of it. Because why not?
December 30, 2017
Cheating isn't a deal breaker for me, it used to be but as I grow older I'm actually fascinated by how cheating gets addressed in fictional romance. Twenty pages in I was strongly in the grip of painful angsty emotions the h's confrontation with the H (and I use that term in the loosest possible manner) induces, unfortunately that momentum isn't maintained. While I can understand that eventually both characters want reconciliation, the pace of this along with complete forgiveness was difficult to swallow. From a non relationship and major cheating, believing yourself in love with OW, to I want to spend my life with you after a month of forced interaction. Sorry NO can swallow. Not at all. Even with my rosiest tinted glasses. After that it was a complete downhill and the illness part read like a second different book. I skimmed most of this part. the true hero the couples son.
So in summary all I can say is the potential was there.
So in summary all I can say is the potential was there.
January 3, 2018
I sure have a knack of finding horrible books- I blame my hiatus from Goodreads as the culprit. Had I known, I would have never picked up this book. Ever.
What angers me so much is that there's literally zero justice for the heroine. Few pages into the book revealed that her husband had been cheating on her for six months and he was on the verge of asking her for a divorce.
However she beat him to it and gave him few ultimatums. One being that she cut off all contacts with his mistress, Tammy for nine months. Upon hearing this, the Hero was enraged. He lamented on how he could deal, not seeing the current love of his life for nine months- surely he would never survive? Second one being that he had to step up as a father to his son.
So on top of being a stupid excuse of a husband, he's also a horrible father. Why am I not surprised? Again, I was conflicted but I decided to just roll with it. The grovelling part was what I wanted to see.....
Three weeks out of the nine months, the Hero finally decided he made a mistake. Turns out he wasn't in love with his mistress after all! It was Grace all along!!! Here's where it went downhill for me.
The husband ONLY HAD TO DO THE BARE MINIMUM TO GET HIS WIFE BACK. So what he had to step up and be a dad? He's supposed to do that??? So what that the ultimatum dictated that be decent with his wife??? It's what a husband is supposed to do. He never grovelled. Not even once. He only had to throw some sweet nothings and he already had her back (and on her back.)
There's literally NO JUSTICE for the heroine. At first I was so disappointed and angry with her. Later it was revealed that I think it could explain her taking him to her bed easily but even that is royally fucked up in my opinion.
Overall, this book is shit. And there's no redeeming for it. End of.
What angers me so much is that there's literally zero justice for the heroine. Few pages into the book revealed that her husband had been cheating on her for six months and he was on the verge of asking her for a divorce.
However she beat him to it and gave him few ultimatums. One being that she cut off all contacts with his mistress, Tammy for nine months. Upon hearing this, the Hero was enraged. He lamented on how he could deal, not seeing the current love of his life for nine months- surely he would never survive? Second one being that he had to step up as a father to his son.
So on top of being a stupid excuse of a husband, he's also a horrible father. Why am I not surprised? Again, I was conflicted but I decided to just roll with it. The grovelling part was what I wanted to see.....
Three weeks out of the nine months, the Hero finally decided he made a mistake. Turns out he wasn't in love with his mistress after all! It was Grace all along!!! Here's where it went downhill for me.
The husband ONLY HAD TO DO THE BARE MINIMUM TO GET HIS WIFE BACK. So what he had to step up and be a dad? He's supposed to do that??? So what that the ultimatum dictated that be decent with his wife??? It's what a husband is supposed to do. He never grovelled. Not even once. He only had to throw some sweet nothings and he already had her back (and on her back.)
There's literally NO JUSTICE for the heroine. At first I was so disappointed and angry with her. Later it was revealed that I think it could explain her taking him to her bed easily but even that is royally fucked up in my opinion.
Overall, this book is shit. And there's no redeeming for it. End of.
June 10, 2018
Beautiful story. While the cheating isn’t a hard limit for me, the other main plot of the story is. If I’d have known that was what the story was gonna be about, I would have skipped it.
But I’m glad I didn’t.
But I’m glad I didn’t.
December 30, 2017
Horrible como es esto romance?!! :b
August 19, 2022
I’ll start by saying that this was a 5 star book for me up until 50% and the twist/revelation/diagnosis happened. I was really digging the cheater/redemption/grovel ARC. Whether I personally think cheating is bad or not, I felt like this was a good cheating redemption book, up until it became a Big C/sick spouse book. Not only do I despise those kind of books, I strongly dislike books where the main characters are already down and they get punched some more for the drama. Totally unnecessary. The book became about something else, the whole rebuilding the relationship because of an affair arc was abandoned and the purpose and feelings of the characters just became muddled. I did like the writing, and like I said, the first 50%, hence the 3 stars. But I feel like the book would’ve been so much better if it had concentrated on one trope and not the other.
January 1, 2018
1 generous *
This book was such a disappointment. There were just so many things wrong I'm not sure where to start. The description led me to believe this was a book about a moron who cheated on his wife and his path to gaining her forgiveness. I expected lots of delicious grovelling or at the very least some soul searching remorse. Nope, not so much.
This book was almost a dnf. The only reason I skimmed to the end was to see how the author crawled out of the bad plot hole. I also think the author should provide a more accurate description to potential readers. I don't feel as though I received the book I paid for. On the other hand if the description been more accurate I wouldn't have bought the book in the first place. Kudos to A.D. Justice for swindling $3.99 out of me 1 day after the book's release. It's now part of kindle unlimited.
Disappointed in my first and likely last A.D. Justice book.
This book was such a disappointment. There were just so many things wrong I'm not sure where to start. The description led me to believe this was a book about a moron who cheated on his wife and his path to gaining her forgiveness. I expected lots of delicious grovelling or at the very least some soul searching remorse. Nope, not so much.
This book was almost a dnf. The only reason I skimmed to the end was to see how the author crawled out of the bad plot hole. I also think the author should provide a more accurate description to potential readers. I don't feel as though I received the book I paid for. On the other hand if the description been more accurate I wouldn't have bought the book in the first place. Kudos to A.D. Justice for swindling $3.99 out of me 1 day after the book's release. It's now part of kindle unlimited.
Disappointed in my first and likely last A.D. Justice book.
January 30, 2019
The writing is so bad. Fuck the OW bullshit. I just can’t get past the writing.
December 23, 2017
I'm going to be very honest here and tell you that this author is always a "one click no matter what" I don't even read the blurbs for her books anymore. I just buy them. I am one of the lucky ones that got to beta read this book and of course in true AD fashion, I dive in feet first and just read and read and read and then read some more. I couldn't stop once I started. And once again in true form for this author she really put my heart in a blender and turned it on high. This book is unlike any of her others but surpassed my expectations in spades. I am usually one that automatically loves the hero, however that was not the case here. I was not a fan of Blake at first. I really wanted to punch him where the sun doesn't shine quite a few times, but he definitely redeemed himself. This book felt so real. Everything that goes on here are things that many couples go through. It had me thinking about my marriage and how I really should not take things for granted. There were many times while reading this book where I sat it down and went over and just hugged my husband and told him how much I loved him. Then of course I went right back to reading because I just had to know what was going to happen. Not gonna lie, my husband really thought I had lost my mind. This book will give you more feels than you are anticipating, I promise. I will go ahead and say that this book is definitely one of the best books I have read in a really long time. Should definitely be on the bestsellers list and win all kinds of awards. Yes, it is that good! Every person, young and old, should read this book. It is truly one of a kind!! Can you tell I really loved this book?!?!
Review by Tabitha
Review by Tabitha
February 12, 2020
4.5 e un mare di lacrime
January 7, 2018
** Its been a few days since I read this book and I finally realize why I felt so dissatisfied.
The obvious of course is the cheating for 6 months, the HZ confessing in thoughts that he was in love with this woman child over his wife of 18 yrs. Not only that, he was neglectful of said wife and his son, apparently holding grudge against the wife for daring to disrupt his plans of being a doctor -- because she was the only one to blame for getting pregnant of course!
This douche was planning on asking wife for divorce ,no care of her or son's feelings and running off with this immature twit but wife stole his thunder by calling him on his cheating - yeah!
I thought he's really in for it now and great! Only, in what felt like hours H douche suddenly realized how much he actually loved her -- like WTF???
But here is my big issue --after the wife laid out her rules to H and calling him on his cheating -- (asking him to give up said twit for 9 months and to spend more time with son/act happy for son's benefit)nowhere did I find him groveling, asking for her forgiveness nor any discussion between them, no explanation on why he cheated, nothing! they just moved on and in no time sexing it up - even though she is suppose to be sick/undergoing treatment, Sure H did a few nice things but these are things he should be doing anyways!!!. We did not "see" H/OW together to see how that relationship was but one can guess from the phone conversation wife was also privy to........so this book was suppose to make me have the feels all over the place but it actually left me feeling cheated, instead it felt like a great set up that fell flat for me - very disappointing end as well to what could have been a fantastic book.
The obvious of course is the cheating for 6 months, the HZ confessing in thoughts that he was in love with this woman child over his wife of 18 yrs. Not only that, he was neglectful of said wife and his son, apparently holding grudge against the wife for daring to disrupt his plans of being a doctor -- because she was the only one to blame for getting pregnant of course!
This douche was planning on asking wife for divorce ,no care of her or son's feelings and running off with this immature twit but wife stole his thunder by calling him on his cheating - yeah!
I thought he's really in for it now and great! Only, in what felt like hours H douche suddenly realized how much he actually loved her -- like WTF???
But here is my big issue --after the wife laid out her rules to H and calling him on his cheating -- (asking him to give up said twit for 9 months and to spend more time with son/act happy for son's benefit)nowhere did I find him groveling, asking for her forgiveness nor any discussion between them, no explanation on why he cheated, nothing! they just moved on and in no time sexing it up - even though she is suppose to be sick/undergoing treatment, Sure H did a few nice things but these are things he should be doing anyways!!!. We did not "see" H/OW together to see how that relationship was but one can guess from the phone conversation wife was also privy to........so this book was suppose to make me have the feels all over the place but it actually left me feeling cheated, instead it felt like a great set up that fell flat for me - very disappointing end as well to what could have been a fantastic book.
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