Review: A SMALL BOOK WITH A BIG HEART...ABSOLUTELY LOVED!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 20, 2013
"I will meet you on Wednesdays at noon in Celebration Park. Kissing only. I won't touch you below the shoulders. You can touch me anywhere. No dating, no hookups. I will meet with you for as long as you meet me, so if you miss a Wednesday we part as strangers. No picture necessary, we can settle details via IM. Reply back with "Wednesdays Only" in the subject line..."I thought The Story Guy was going to be a quick little romance to pass away my Sunday. What I found was an AMAZING Five Star Book that was beautiful and so wonderfully done, beginning to end.The story to me is about so many different things, I don't even know what to mention first. It's about responsibility for loved ones and what that ultimately means for family members. It's about stepping outside your comfort zone and take chances, sometimes crazy chances, because the potential of what might be waiting for you is worth the risk. It's about figuring out when it makes sense to walk away and when it makes sense to wait it out. It's about grabbing hold of life and not taking things for granted, relishing our ability to make decisions..."This man...makes it seem that wanting something should make us afraid, or at least cautious. I can't work out if it's that I've never wanted anything I should be afraid of, or if he's afraid of the wrong things."I normally always include a couple quotes or small snippets from the book in my reviews. I do that to highlight something funny, or sexy, or just to show the authors writing style, or a specific tone...I don't even know what to include in this review because I feel like the entire book should be highlighted and bolded and double underlined. It's hard to pick and choose because I simply loved it all. The Story Guy apart from being an amazing story is beautifully written. I loved the author's writing style, there was a certain rhythm to her words, almost like poetry. It was a wonderful romance with a somewhat quirky heroine I loved and a hero that broke my heart even as I admired him. It was funny, sexy, and it hurt my heart."The problem is that stepping away from Brian, leaving him standing under that pergola on Wednesday, is no longer enough to leave behind how he made me feel in that hour. I could leave him there, we could part as strangers, but God, I know that I would look for him. He would live in my peripheral vision, a ghost nudging me to turn and look behind me, only to find a spot that is emptier than empty."I read a lot of books, many of them are mostly forgotten when I move on to the next. Every once in a while, if I'm lucky, I find a book that's magic. The Story Guy is that for me, its pixie dust and rainbows and everything wonderful. It's the book you hope to find as you pick up each and every book you read. I adored The Story Guy and it is by far one of the best books I've read all year."Story guys are like life highlighters. Your life is all these big blocks of gray text, and then a story guy comes in with a big ol' paragraph of neon pink so that when you flip back through your life, you can stop and remember all the important and interesting places."Copy provided by publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review