Twenty-three-year-old Camryn Singer never imagined that she would return to the place where she lost everything. To grant a dying wish, she moves back to the small Jersey beach town where she grew up, hoping to somehow find the missing pieces of her life. Determined to keep her wounds unopened and her heart guarded, she instead slams head-first into Cole Stevens.
Sexy surfer Cole has always used the waves to numb the pain of his past. But when he runs into Camryn on the beach one day, he wants nothing more than for her to heal his scars and light the spark back in his life.
Will Camryn and Cole be ripped apart when the ghosts from their pasts come back to life, or will they discover that it’s not until you’re lost, that you can be found?
About K.L. Ruse
I am a middle school teacher who recently traded in my chalk for a laptop to follow my dream of writing contemporary romance novels. I live with my husband and two daughters in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
When I'm not writing, I spend my time reading and relaxing with my family at my home-away-from-home, the Jersey shore.
After I graduated from Villanova University in 2003, I never imagined my path would lead me in this direction. Writing was a hobby, an outlet for me to live in a world of happily ever after. Now as I watch my dream become a reality, I believe that happy endings do exist.
While looking for a novel on love this Valentine's day I came across "love @ Facebook" by Nikita Singh. Before going into the book, I wondered about the title. It's catchy and obviously 'How apropos!' Love starts at MTV and ends up at Facebook. Vatsala being not an exception fell for look, body and humour of Ronit Oberoi who is a VJ.
When you read all the facebook chats, it just gives you the pleasure of reading your friends' inbox secretly. Really, it feels like chat.
I guess, author tried to say that celebrities are celebrities and we should not run after them rather concentrate on one who really cares for you.
And needless to say, you will discover many words which are trending on facebook these days like 'kewl'. It's actually 'cool'.
About language? it's simple and well presented.
Though I did not find any line or paragraph to quote for you from the book, it's readable. It's simply a story. A love story.
Talking about cover page, it's simply awesome. overall I liked the book.
Lastly, to Boys, you will like the photo (author's) on the back cover for sure. Smiling and confident Nikita is a voracious reader having interest in literature.
It’s a book in simple English, well narrated by the author through a young- Muslim-girl. Yes, these are the three words the author wanted us to focus upon.
He starts with the day to day stories of Hasina Mansoor at the airport and her vending machine which follows her order and fills a cup with tea when red button is pushed. And it ends up with diary entries by her.
Unlike other girls, Hasina Mansoor, the vending machine operator at the international airport departure lounge was determined, ambitious, confident and self dependent. A girl generally finds difficult to maintain even herself but Hasina also looks after her family. She even thinks of the whole Muslim community. She hates Juice and America because they hate muslim. She supports Saddam. So, before you start reading better know about Saddam, America and Israel and while you read decide you are from which side America or Hasina Mansoor. In Hasina’s words, “You know why the Americans showed the hanging on television? They were simply revenging; it was their yelling at all Muslims in the world: You watched the collapse of our nice little trading centre. Now you watch the death of your hero. Bloody Muslims. I hated America….”
She is not communal because she cried at Natasha’s death. This is what made me fall for Hasina.
All the characters Hasina is related to in the novel look like to be from your neighbour. Haji Osman, Eza, Subair uncle, Shamla!
And narration is so simple and lively that you may confuse author as female what actually I did. I thought Anees Salim was good name of Hasina. All the expressions described in the novel are keen and lively.
Besides, the novel is full of antics. At every point, you will find Hasina’s activities surreptitious. Even at the end, she acts in a surreptitious way to her family. Oh, I forgot to tell you her love story. She loves from heart and when I reached middle of the novel I found myself envious of Eza but soon I remembered neither I am Muslim nor anyway related to Natasha.
At the end, author compels you to think of all the characters, not only Hasina Mansoor. All of them leave impressions in your mind but Hasina in your heart. Really it’s a darkly humorous and touching story. Love you Hasina. But I am Hindu…..
(review as published in the bilingual magazine SAAF KOTHA( the STAIGHT VIEW), January 2014 edition. Visit www.saafkotha.in)
I am a middle school teacher who recently traded in my chalk for a laptop to follow my dream of writing contemporary romance novels. I live with my husband and two daughters in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
When I'm not writing, I spend my time reading and relaxing with my family at my home-away-from-home, the Jersey shore.
