Book Description:


Publisher: Author House, January 31, 2012
Category: Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Romance
Tour Dates: February, 2013
Available in: Print, Kindle,  & Nook, 208 pages

A modern Bridges of Madison County, Nicole Benson, 35, is an ambitious college professor with dreams of teaching at an Ivy-League school until she meets Tom Ryan, 44, married 23 years and shattered after his daughter’s death from leukemia. A first-generation in her family to go to college,  Nicole is a self-made woman. She put herself through school, sacrificing marriage and children for her career. In the summer of 1997, she finally graduates with a Ph.D. from NYU, but her life is thrust into chaos when her father is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Abandoned by her mother as a girl, her father is all she has.

After fifteen years in New York City, Nicole leaves everything and everyone she knows to teach for a year in rural Bradford, Pennsylvania to be close to him in nearby Buffalo. Now, trapped in tiny Bradford, she has never felt more alone in her life…until she meets Tom Ryan.

At 44, Tom represents what Nicole longs to be: settled, secure, and clear about his purpose and direction in life. Emotionally scarred, he and his wife are empty nesters with an older son away at college and struggle to grieve together after the death of their daughter. Tom and Nicole’s story begins as a journey of self-discovery for both of them but turns to bittersweet romance when their friendship becomes love. Nicole risks offering what she has never given before, her heart; and Tom has never felt happier or more conflicted when he falls in love for the second time in his life.

My Thoughts:


I rarely read romance novels. I like books with at least some literary merit, strong plot and strong characters.  The Eight Wonder sounded like it would include all of that along with some romance.  It did not disappoint!

Both Nicole and Tom are both very intelligent characters.  One of the reason Tom takes to Nicole so fast is that she is intelligent. Yes, they do fall in love but it is a mature love.  This book is much more about relationships than romance.

I loved this book!  Kimberly Young wrote in perfect pitch with breath taking imagery and well drawn out characters, including the bridge, itself.  I was sucked into the pages as if I was right there, in Bradford.   Highly Recommended!


5/5


I was given this book for my honest review.


About Kimberly Young:


Kimberly Young is a licensed psychologist, an author, and an internationally-known speaker on Internet addiction. In 1995, she founded the Center for Internet Addiction and since then she has written numerous articles on the topic including four books, Caught in the Net, Tangled in the Web, Breaking Free of the Web, and Internet Addiction: A Handbook for Evaluation and Treatment.


She is a professor at St. Bonaventure University and her work has appeared in hundreds of media outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, Time, and Newsweek, and she has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNBC, CNN, and ABC World News Tonight. She has written creatively on and off since she was eight-years-old, mainly working on poems and short stories. While recovering from retina re-attachment eye surgery, she was homebound for several months and decided to pursue her creative writing more seriously. The Eighth Wonder is her first novel.


Buy The Eight Wonder at:

Amazon.com: Hardcover, Paperback, or  Kindle
Barnes & Noble: Hardcover or Nook
Book Depository: Hardcover and Paperback

Now for the giveaway! Thanks to Kimberly, I am giving away one copy of The Eighth Wonder in PDF format only.  The giveaway is international and ends on March 6, 2013.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.

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