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Noah
How hard is it to forget the past and start anew? Noah wants to forget but the arrowhead he continues to carry in his pants pocket makes it very difficult. That arrowhead was given to him by Dorothy, a park ranger and one of two women he loved . . . and lost. Dorothy sabotaged herself by pretending to be someone she wasn't. She moved to a more distant national park after being afraid to confront Noah with the truth about her subterfuge.
As time passed and their lives evolved, both are still lost, both are still lonely, and both are still in love with the vision of their relationship together. Is it possible for them to find their way back to each other? Do fairy tales ever come true.
As time passed and their lives evolved, both are still lost, both are still lonely, and both are still in love with the vision of their relationship together. Is it possible for them to find their way back to each other? Do fairy tales ever come true.
264 pages, Paperback
Published September 22, 2020
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Gary R. Hope
12 books20 followersGary Hope is a writer from North Carolina. His first four books were non-fiction. He recently released his first work of fiction, It's Too Late To Die Young Now. When asked why he switched to writing fiction, Gary said, “Because change gives me an opportunity to think, and lets my imagination take me anywhere I want to go.”
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November 24, 2020
Noah, a columnist of Salt Lake City Tribune, is witty, intelligent and an adventurous man, who doesn’t fear strenuous hike in a time of despair and distrust. Gary Hope reveals the three main characters around this story of Lost Love. Noah the protagonist who falls head over heels in love with two women, Ana and Dorothy, at the same time. Ana, a mysterious mailing woman, whom he has never met in person, and Dorothy, a park ranger in Canyonlands National Park near Moab who he feels physically attracted to. But at some point, he thinks Ana and Dorothy are the same women and he tries to prove but failed terribly. Suddenly one day, Ana changes her mailing address and Dorothy moved to Death Valley National Park in California, and just like that his world comes down crashing.
But can one really loose and forget their love and move on? This book won’t fail you if you have recently broken up and coped with the hardships it comes along with. Take a scoop of mint chocolate ice cream or a hot coffee and read your souls out.
But then why I gave this book 2 stars?
According to me, this wasn’t the contemporary romantic tale, I signed up for. I literally feel Noah is a classic train to nowhere.
I hop on to this train of love, loss, pain, suffering, and presumptions (Don’t get me started over this) with Gary Hope from Moab, where the story begins and ended in Utah. It didn’t lead me anywhere, surprisingly, a good mystery solver, like myself, can already detect what’s gonna happen in the end. Although I crossed many exciting and thrilling stations midway like quirky and witty mail replies by Noah. (I have literally written down the best replies and gonna use it on friends soon) I also like the way how Noah’s relation with characters apart from Ana and Dorothy have sewed so sweetly. His affection and selfless love for Grace (a waitress) and her baby will literally melt your heart.
Where I felt a little cranky, is at the creation of the main character. Ana/Dorothy. In most parts of the novel, I saw Dorothy either crying or drinking. She feels miserable without Noah yet she didn’t make any amends not when the story dreadfully needed the twist. She is portrayed as a sweet, good girl but almost always depressed. Whereas Ana is supposedly showed as the wittiest and intelligent girl but I never saw anything of that sort.
The story plot is like good-old situations of near meeting encounters, but after some point in time, I started getting agitated over the same thing happening again and again. For the editing angle, this book has some minor grammatical mistakes but does not add up to ten. It does not contain any profound words or obscene situations. It is readable for young adults as well as old-aged readers. However, the valuable possessions from this book that I learned are
Never ever cook stories for the sake of avoiding reality. Ask and Get.
Some relations are more pious than that of blood relations
The heart wants what it wants.
But can one really loose and forget their love and move on? This book won’t fail you if you have recently broken up and coped with the hardships it comes along with. Take a scoop of mint chocolate ice cream or a hot coffee and read your souls out.
But then why I gave this book 2 stars?
According to me, this wasn’t the contemporary romantic tale, I signed up for. I literally feel Noah is a classic train to nowhere.
I hop on to this train of love, loss, pain, suffering, and presumptions (Don’t get me started over this) with Gary Hope from Moab, where the story begins and ended in Utah. It didn’t lead me anywhere, surprisingly, a good mystery solver, like myself, can already detect what’s gonna happen in the end. Although I crossed many exciting and thrilling stations midway like quirky and witty mail replies by Noah. (I have literally written down the best replies and gonna use it on friends soon) I also like the way how Noah’s relation with characters apart from Ana and Dorothy have sewed so sweetly. His affection and selfless love for Grace (a waitress) and her baby will literally melt your heart.
Where I felt a little cranky, is at the creation of the main character. Ana/Dorothy. In most parts of the novel, I saw Dorothy either crying or drinking. She feels miserable without Noah yet she didn’t make any amends not when the story dreadfully needed the twist. She is portrayed as a sweet, good girl but almost always depressed. Whereas Ana is supposedly showed as the wittiest and intelligent girl but I never saw anything of that sort.
The story plot is like good-old situations of near meeting encounters, but after some point in time, I started getting agitated over the same thing happening again and again. For the editing angle, this book has some minor grammatical mistakes but does not add up to ten. It does not contain any profound words or obscene situations. It is readable for young adults as well as old-aged readers. However, the valuable possessions from this book that I learned are
Never ever cook stories for the sake of avoiding reality. Ask and Get.
Some relations are more pious than that of blood relations
The heart wants what it wants.
May 24, 2021
loved this book. A humorous, romance set in the scenic grandeur of southern Utah.
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