Lovin' Mrs. Jones

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Summary: This Is A Story About True Love Without Lust
Review: From start to finish I found it to be refreshing and new. An old fashion love story about the way I think people should fall in love. There is physical attraction between the two main characters Gabriel and Alex, but they fell in love because of who they are. A real spiritual connection. It's like they were destined to find each other. I never read until I'm in bed and I read the first half of the book in one night, which left me very sleepy and excited. I told everyone at work about it and admitted that I couldn't wait to get home to finish it. When I finally got off at midnight I put the petal to the metal, doing 80 on the expressway back to this book. After finishing it at around 2:30 in the AM I was left wanting more. While reading it I couldn't help but wish to be in Alex's shoes, because it was about real love and the kind we all dream about at some point in our lives. I laughed, I cried and I fell in love with love again. Thank You Mr Edward Dean Arnold. You are so very talented.

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Summary: An engrossing love story that captured my heart.
Review: I feel especially privileged to review this new book because as an aspiring writer myself, it is crucial to get the word out about a worthwhile reading experience.

Fortunately for me, there was a preview of Mr. Arnold's new novel online and I was very eager to read it. I was hooked!! After reading a little of this lovely and expertly told love story, I actually tried to save the book by not reading it too fast. Yes, I would read so much a day on my way to work on the bus and on my way home. But let me get into why I loved this novel.

It is a wonderul accounting of how being in the right place at the right time, one can encounter exactly what one needs at that moment. Perhaps being a spiritual person myself, I could relate to the main characters in the book and realize that when God has a plan, there is never any getting away from that.

Here were two strangers, a man and woman both involved in their respective relationships and by chance, they meet, fall in love and experience all the knowing of each other, the humor and bonding and empathy with another human being which was quite extraddiordinary. As an African American female, my heart simply soared as I read a love story that had strong characters, responsible young people who had and were achieving what is known for many as the American dream. No drugs, no guns, no violence, just decent human beings dealing with their circumstances in a way that made me proud. I say that because they had all the trimming of what success is--the luxurious cars, the high-paying jobs, the expensive apartments or home, ambition, and respectability. But in all of that, you find these strong characters who were human and vulnerable and they found each other.

I simply loved getting to know them and their struggle with their new found love and the consequences that surrounded the love, but regardless of all of that, Mr. Arnold wrote a beautiful love story that I became an inside character to and found the most comfortable place to be for the short time I spent reading his book.

Bravo to you Mr. Arnold for a first-novel that has it all--love, suspense in not knowing how it will all end, warmth, humor, continuity, excitement, sadness, spirituality, betrayal, lust, but the most important ingrediant in a romance novel---LOVE.

Read this book. You won't be disappointed because it will make you thirst for the next page as I did.

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Summary: A Heart-Warming Tale
Review: Lovin' Mrs. Jones is a story that truly touched my heart. A story of two people who meet by chance and are swept up into something they never would have imagined in their wildest dreams. They meet at a time in their lives when one is going through what should be the happiest time of life and the other, one of the saddest times of life.

What follows is how they deal with what they are faced with together and separately. The author has done an outstanding job with the characters in this story. They are us, they are people that we know, or we know somebody that knows them.

If you are a romantic, believe in love, have faith in God, and believe that everything happens for a reason, this is a MUST READ!!!