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Someone Else's Love Story

por Joshilyn Jackson

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Someone Else's Love Story is beloved and highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson's funny, charming, and poignant novel about science and miracles, secrets and truths, faith and forgiveness; about falling in love, and learning that things aren't always what they seemâ??or what we hope they will be.

Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Nathan, aka Natty Bumppo, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced parents. She's got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up and falling in love with William Ashe, who willingly steps between the robber and her son.

Shandi doesn't know that her blond god Thor has his own complications. When he looked down the barrel of that gun he believed it was destiny: It's been one year to the day since a tragic act of physics shattered his world. But William doesn't define destiny the way others do. A brilliant geneticist who believes in facts and numbers, destiny to him is about choice. Now, he and Shandi are about to meet their so-called destinies head on, making choices that will reveal unexpected truths about love, life, and the world they think they know.… (más)

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This was a different sort of fish. The story is told alternately in first person past tense from the 21 year old single mother of a genius child and in third person present for the POV of the Asperger's man who saves them both during a gas station hold up.

There are several relationships playing out in various stages during this book but I would not classify it as a romance. I didn't care for some of the characters but I loved others.

There were a couple of twists. One of them I really enjoyed watching play out and the other was hidden so deeply that I felt it came unrealistically out of nowhere. I realize the author was saving the fact that the hero's wife was still alive for a surprise but telling us that she was dead was not fair. You owe it to your reader to leave enough hints to give the reader at least a chance to guess that it might be possible. This just came out of nowhere like Bobby in the shower.

Still I found the whole thing almost totally charming and riveting. ( )
  Luziadovalongo | Jul 14, 2022 |
Recommended for: people who like oft-used tropes, and massive plot upheavals with a side of heavy-handed morality.
I first read this book four, possibly five years ago. I've grown and changed a lot as a reader, and as a person. I let a -lot- of things slide when they showed up in certain books, and was so used to certain tropes that I came to expect them. I reread the book last night. It was -weird- reading it the second time because I remembered several enormous plot twists, and was very unhappily preparing for them. I forgot a bunch of other stuff, though. Like the fact that the author uses rich imagery and ties it deftly into characterization. The dialogue flows, and the characters act their ages. The author can write.
Unfortunately, the author chooses what I understand are now tropes, and I understand now that they are tropes I hate. Rape as Backstory, All Babies Are Perfect Miracles, Women Hating Women (any time Shandi and Paula interact), All Irish People are Redheaded Deeply Observant Catholics, You Must Convert to Marry Me, Interfaith Relationships Are Evil, One Black Person Means It's Diverse, Dead Wife Comes Back to Life, My Evil Jewish Stepmother Seduced My Less-Obeservant Daddy, and Evil Mommy. I'm sure I'm forgetting others.

I despised Shandi for a variety of reasons. Sophie Scaife she is not, and I gritted my teeth every time she tried to resemble Sophie Scaife. Shandi mostly flipped between "nineteen=nimrod" and "young mom=world-wise." Both can work, but not when thrown together, and so, so did not in this book. I recoiled in disgust when I found out this was turned into a series. When I read the synopsis for the prequel, I burst out laughing and had nothing to worry about. Wow. Is Shandi a teen mom or a five-year-old? The synopsis has me wondering. ( )
  iszevthere | Jun 21, 2022 |
An inspiring story about the intersection between faith and science and how the answers to life are staring at us at all times. A book I wish I had written! ( )
  AngelaLam | Feb 8, 2022 |
cute and overwritten faith and family exploration
  Scaulkins | Jan 27, 2022 |
alternative romantic comedy - Asperger's/Autistic scientist saves lives of single mom and child in Atlanta minimart robbery gone awry, but that is only where the story begins. ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
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EMILY DICKINSON
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For Bobby Jackson, who married the right girl, and Julie Jackson, a custom job
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I fell in love with William Ashe at gunpoint in a Circle K.
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Someone Else's Love Story is beloved and highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson's funny, charming, and poignant novel about science and miracles, secrets and truths, faith and forgiveness; about falling in love, and learning that things aren't always what they seemâ??or what we hope they will be.

Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Nathan, aka Natty Bumppo, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced parents. She's got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up and falling in love with William Ashe, who willingly steps between the robber and her son.

Shandi doesn't know that her blond god Thor has his own complications. When he looked down the barrel of that gun he believed it was destiny: It's been one year to the day since a tragic act of physics shattered his world. But William doesn't define destiny the way others do. A brilliant geneticist who believes in facts and numbers, destiny to him is about choice. Now, he and Shandi are about to meet their so-called destinies head on, making choices that will reveal unexpected truths about love, life, and the world they think they know.

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