Thursday, January 26, 2012

Book Review: The Brevity of Roses

The Brevity of Roses by Linda Cassidy Lewis is a love story. What makes it different is that it’s told primarily from the man’s POV. Jalal leaves his life in New York and heads to California to see his family and to start anew. He encounters Meredith. Jalal and Meredith both have lost loves in their past. They meet up in a restaurant and Jalal pursues her, even though she is fifty and he is much younger. Their life, their love is complicated and complex. And despite their age difference, it is deep, but not without tragedy.

It’s easy to get lost in Jalal’s story and the twists and turns his life takes. Lewis does a good job of letting us feel his emotions, whether they are love, loss, anger or fear. By the end you will have questions. Is it possible to find your one true love? If you find it once, can you find it again? What if love finds you?

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I give The Brevity of Roses a rating of Hel-of-a-Love-Story.
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FTC Disclaimer: I had expected to review this book back in August 2010, but then my computer went face down in the dirt and died. I wonder if the FTC could do something about that. Then when my tech guy got me a new computer three months later, I forgot to do the review. Perhaps the FTC could do something about my memory. One thing I did not forget is that The Brevity of Roses only cost me $2.99. Woo-woo! The Brevity of Roses is worth all two hundred and ninety-nine pennies. As part of this disclaimer, I should tell you that part of the delay was stuffing all those pennies into the pay slot on the side of this new fangled laptop. I should have used the slide out money drawer on the other side, but I only have rectangular bills, not big round ones.

17 comments:

  1. And score another perfect ten for your disclaimer!

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  2. I give you an 11! The book sounds lovely.

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  3. It was a great book. I should have added that it is gives us complex characters with emotions we can identify with.

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  4. the book sounds really good, and it's nice that despite your computer turmoil you were able to read and post the review now. Sounds like a good love story for upcoming Valentine's Day. (stuffing pennies into the laptop - too funny!)

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  5. Hi Joanne. I've decided that computer turmoil never goes away, at least it doesn't seem to for me.

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  6. Why didn't you use your round credit card, Helen?

    Sounds like a book I'd like to read. :)

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  7. Great review of a fabulous book. I too loved the characters. Your disclaimer is hilarious. Thnaks for the giggle!

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  8. Told from the man's POV, eh? Now, that would be different.

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  9. You should read it Christopher. I suspect you're a lot like Jalal.

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  10. I absolutely loved "The Brevity of Roses" - a book I read more than once and I only do this with books I really care for!
    Christa

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  11. Those dang money slots! :)

    Thanks for the tip - sounds like a great read!

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  12. Very cool that this is told in a male POV and it's a relationship with an older woman. Nice review, Helen. Oh, and I got a big kick out of the pay slot and slide drawer on your new laptop!

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  13. Hmm, I may check this novel out.

    ......dhole

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  14. Hi everyone. You get to know all the major characters, but the male is the continuity character.

    Christa, you're right, this is a book you could read more than once.

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  15. More than that, Christopher. He actually listens to women.

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  16. That is an interesting perspective. I can't think of any romancey type books told from the male's POV.

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