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Someone Else's Love Story

by Joshilyn Jackson 

Synopsis:

At twenty-one, Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Natty, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced Catholic mother and Jewish father. She’s got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up in a gas station mini-mart and falling in love with a great wall of a man named William Ashe, who willingly steps between the armed 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 universe. But William doesn’t define destiny the way other people do. A brilliant geneticist who believes in science and numbers, destiny to him is about choice.

Now, he and Shandi are about to meet their so-called destinies head on, in a funny, charming, and poignant novel about science and miracles, secrets and truths, faith and forgiveness,; about a virgin birth, a sacrifice, and a resurrection; about falling in love, and learning that things aren’t always what they seem—or what we hope they will be. It’s a novel about discovering what we want and ultimately finding what we need.

My Review:

This is an author that has quickly become one of my favorites. Her writing is so witty, so funny, yet so poignant. She tackles tough issues with a sense of humor without being tacky or offensive to those victimized by the same terrors: abuse, rape, etc. She also provides her readers a glimpse into the life of a highly-functioning autistic man with Asperger's Syndrome.

Great story. Hard to describe without giving too much away but brilliantly written and definitely an entertaining and fulfilling read.