{"id":1404,"date":"2012-03-26T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2012-03-16T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T14:16:11","slug":"1404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=1404","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Aching for Always"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What a fun story! The worst thing about it, IMHO, was the title. It just didn’t grab me. I haven’t read this author before, but put this on my to-read list based on the summary. Trouble was, every time I perused my to-read list, I couldn’t remember what this story was supposed to be about, so I went on to something else.<\/p>\n

Finally, I picked it up, and I am glad I did. This was a time travel romance set largely in modern day Pittsburgh. It involved the misdeeds of the heroine’s father, and the man who traveled through time for revenge.<\/p>\n

Joss is already engaged when the book begins, but that didn’t bother me. (It often does.) Rogan, her fiance, isn’t a great guy, but he’s not some classic a****** either. Oh, he has his faults, but it wasn’t over the top, which I appreciated. I would love to say more about him, actually, but I don’t like to put spoilers in my reviews. Suffice to say, I found his motivations believable.<\/p>\n

Both Hugh and Joss learn things about themselves in this book. Hugh learns about the perils of leading a life of vengeance. Joss learns who she is, separate from her mother and the things she images her long-dead mother would have wanted for her.<\/p>\n

Highly recommend to romance readers.<\/p>\n

Rating: 4\/5<\/p>\n

Title: Aching for Always
\nAuthor: Gwyn Cready
\nISBN: 1439107289
\nPublished September 28, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a fun story! The worst thing about it, IMHO, was the title. It just didn’t grab me. I haven’t read this author before, but put this on my to-read list based on the summary. Trouble was, every time I perused my to-read list, I couldn’t remember what this story was supposed to be about, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-fantasy-what-im-reading","category-romance-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}