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The Second Time We Met
by
Leila Cobo
Adored and nurtured by his adoptive parents in California, Asher Stone has moved effortlessly through a nearly perfect life. He is on the verge of a professional soccer career-when a car accident throws his future into doubt. Suddenly, Asher begins to wonder about his past, and about the girl who gave him up for adoption in Colombia two decades ago. And so begins his searc...more
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
February 29th 2012
by Grand Central Publishing
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There was one line in this book that stopped me warm. No, I don't mean cold, I mean warm, it made me feel warm and a bit stunned. Rita was in confession and was stuck over the words she had to tell the priest. I had expected that he was going to say something tough to her, her already knew from Rita's mother that she was pregnant, instead he told her "We don't judge in the house of God." Wow. I had to stop reading at that point. For me this was a new view of the Catholic church. This was the com...more
THE SECOND TIME WE MET by Leila Cobo
Does our search for answers ever stop?
When you are adopted I am sure the question of "who am I really" is always in the back of your mind. Asher Stone gave this some thought over the 21 years of his life, but not seriously, until the day he almost died. Everything came too close to being taken away and even though his adopted parents are a source of unconditional love, Asher has to know "who am I really.”
After he made the decision to find out why his mother...more
Does our search for answers ever stop?
When you are adopted I am sure the question of "who am I really" is always in the back of your mind. Asher Stone gave this some thought over the 21 years of his life, but not seriously, until the day he almost died. Everything came too close to being taken away and even though his adopted parents are a source of unconditional love, Asher has to know "who am I really.”
After he made the decision to find out why his mother...more
The Second Time We Met combines the stories of Rita and her son Asher Sebastian Stone. The book opens with Rita living a protected middle class life in 1989 in a small hillside town in Colombia. Rita's father is a disciplinarian and has grown distant towards Rita ever since she started to blossom into a beauty. He's afraid of the attention that she is starting to attract. He responds to the changes in his daughter by drawing away, becoming cold, and ignoring her. Their small town is occupied by...more
THE SECOND TIME WE MET by Leila Cobo
Published by Grand Central Publishing
Division of The Hachette Book Group
ISBN-13: 9780446519380
At the request of The Hachette Book Group, a TPB was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion.
Synopsis (from publisher): Asher Stone grew up in an idyllic California family. His mother Linda made sure of that. She never wanted her son to feel different from other kids, just because he was adopted. She was a loving, devoted mother, and Asher a happy, healthy boy....more
Published by Grand Central Publishing
Division of The Hachette Book Group
ISBN-13: 9780446519380
At the request of The Hachette Book Group, a TPB was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion.
Synopsis (from publisher): Asher Stone grew up in an idyllic California family. His mother Linda made sure of that. She never wanted her son to feel different from other kids, just because he was adopted. She was a loving, devoted mother, and Asher a happy, healthy boy....more
This book was very close to my heart, as I have two adopted children from Colombia. I enjoyed the tour of Colombia and felt she had the emotions correct especially regarding the adoptive parents. Asher seemed very much like my son with his looks and love for soccer. Unlike Asher, my son didn't get a second chance. He suffered with depression and took his own life at age 20. So this story was even harder for me to read.
What I hoped for didn't happen. I felt the ending, the meeting with Rita, was...more
What I hoped for didn't happen. I felt the ending, the meeting with Rita, was...more
Mar 04, 2012
Jessica
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In Leila Cobo’s The Second Time We Met (Grand Central Publishing), teenager Rita Ortiz lives in a small town called Edén, but her life is hell.
Her parents are overly strict, and her small town in Colombia is run by guerillas. She falls in love with one of those guerillas, Lucas, and then her life becomes even more complicated: she finds out she’s pregnant. Her parents force her to move into a convert, and she gives birth and puts the baby up for adoption.
The book then goes from 1989 South Americ...more
Her parents are overly strict, and her small town in Colombia is run by guerillas. She falls in love with one of those guerillas, Lucas, and then her life becomes even more complicated: she finds out she’s pregnant. Her parents force her to move into a convert, and she gives birth and puts the baby up for adoption.
The book then goes from 1989 South Americ...more
A Touching story about a young man's search for his birth mother leads him to another country and the people who once knew his mother. With the help of his parents, girlfriend and people from the orphanage, he eventually finds her and along the way learns of the story of her parents... Rita gets pregnant at sixteen by a member of guerrillas, is shipped to a convent by her parents and basically disowned. After the birth of her baby, she tries to make something of her life, eventually getting marr...more
Took me a little bit to get into this one (mostly because I didn't have time), but once I did, I was hooked. Loved learning a little about a time/place I hadn't given much thought to and was really starting to become engaged with the characters when bam! it was over. Whattt??? There's about 50 questions I have and I wanted more (which I guess is the sign of a good book). I don't think I'd want to see this as a series, but I wish the first book took the story further. I'd recommend because the st...more
This book is kind of divided into three parts and each part got better. I found it interesting to think of this in terms of being the same age as Rita. What would my life have been like had I been pregnant at 16? I didn't love the author's writing, but the story was okay. Pretty much you knew the end from the beginning with a few surprises thrown in. Asher's girlfriend was a bit of a conundrum in the story. Why was she so invested in his search for his mother? This was a fine read and certainly...more
I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.
"As long as she was Rita Ortiz, she would be a maid, a single mother who'd had to give her child up for adoption, the lover of a dangerous man, a failed daughter, a sister who had left her brother behind." -pg. 282
"...even when you cross to the other side, someone or something can still bring you back, no matter how far you travel beyond that invisible line that divides what was from what is." -pg. 320
Rita Ortiz lives in Colombia with h...more
"As long as she was Rita Ortiz, she would be a maid, a single mother who'd had to give her child up for adoption, the lover of a dangerous man, a failed daughter, a sister who had left her brother behind." -pg. 282
"...even when you cross to the other side, someone or something can still bring you back, no matter how far you travel beyond that invisible line that divides what was from what is." -pg. 320
Rita Ortiz lives in Colombia with h...more
I really loved this book. Rita's story is so compelling--sometimes i want to strangle her, sometimes I want to hug her. But we always root for her, even when she doesn't seem to do the right thing. the author was able to really make us identify with all the characters: The adopted son, the mother, the adoptive mother. It's such a beautiful story and one that makes us really think of how people can find second chances. I cried.
I knew it was an adoption story but was much different than I expected. Really good read. Perfect way to start spring break!
Still in the interim of finishing... I dont want to put it down when reading it, simply amazing!
Enjoyed the story as I have 2 adopted sons & an adopted daughter.
Awful book. Not even good enough to be a teen book.
Fabulous read!!! Highly recommend.
This was a really good book!
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I won this book in the Goodreads Giveaway and I have to say it was a good get. I really enjoyed the journey Ms. Cobo takes the reader. It shows the life of the lead character and the son she gave up. The entire book is about the characters realizing their true identities despite what they show the people in their lives. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes reality mixed-in with a happy ending.
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