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Nunca Te Esqueci (2011)

by Michael Baron(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

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Romance

publisher

Quinta Essência

review 1: I loved this story. I don't know why but in some ways it just drew me in and I wanted to see the story to the end pretty quickly. The very sad story in ways of a brother and a family and a girl friend who lost a young man in the prime of his life and the things they knew and did not know about his last day on earth. It all comes to light in the end. They each have their own ways of feeling badly about how Chase's life ended and seeem to have put their lives on hold because of it. This is the story about how they get beyond that eventually and how they start to live again. A great story I really like this author and his stories of people and their family's. Here on Good Reads:Hugh Penders has been stuck in neutral for nearly a decade since his brother Chase died in a ca... morer accident. He carries with him two secrets that he has never been able to share with anyone: that he believes he might have been able to prevent the accident, and that he was deeply in love with Chase's girlfriend, Iris.When Hugh's father suffers a debilitating heart attack, Hugh must return to the New England home he's been running away from for the past ten years. One day, he encounters Iris - who has long since moved away - on the street. They begin a friendship and Hugh believes he's falling in love with Iris all over again.But the ghost of Chase haunts both of them. And when each reveals a truth the other never knew, their lives, their vision of Chase, and their chances for a future together will change forever.Charged by the power of desire and the impact of loss, Crossing the Bridge is a soulful, romantic novel that will speak to you deeply.
review 2: Hugh Penders is back in Amber, CT for his first extended visit since his brother Chase's death because his father has had a heart attack. It isn't just that his parents need his moral support; his father Richard needs him to take over running the store--and hopes he will take it over permanently. Both parents are offended when he flatly refuses, and agrees only to run it until it can be sold.Since he's been drifting for the ten years since Chase died, and has recently quit his latest job, there's no obstacle to his doing so except that he finds working in the card and gift shop incredibly dull. Eventually, though, he gets bored enough that he starts making changes in the store, changes he feels his father should have made years ago. He's also distracted by running into Iris, his brother's last and most serious girlfriend, a woman to whom Hugh was also attracted. As he and Iris renew their friendship, they both have a lot of emotional baggage to work through with regard to Chase, and it soon looms as an obstacle to any future they might have together.I found it took me longer to get into this book than any previous work by Baron that I've read. Almost perversely, this was because he's very good at what he does: he very effectively captured Hugh's disconnected, drifting state, his failure to move on from the crippling shock of his brother's death ten years earlier. It was only as he started to engage again that I found it easier to connect with the story, and care what happened to Hugh, Iris, Richard, the store, and the staff who work there.Once that happened, I couldn't put it down. It was, in the end, a wholly satisfying novel.Recommended. less

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