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The Sound of Rain (Jason Wolfe #1)
Jayson felt almost as if he’d been catapulted into some eerie time warp as he stood and looked out of the ocean. It had been Drew’s idea…to stop first at the place they’d come with their mother fewer than two years earlier. And Jayson couldn’t deny that for al the grief and heartache he was taking with him…his musical abilities had grown through the experiences he’d found...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
August 4th 2008
by Covenant Communications
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Loved the book!!! It was a true life romance with plenty of speed bumps. I highly recommend it! It explains love and temptation so well!
I'm a sucker for Stansfield's novels. I like her writing and enjoy refreshing myself with one of her books every now and again. This one did a great job of depicting youth and their very real feelings. At first, I thought the characters were being depicted as way off from what high schoolers are really like, but then I reflected on my hs years and decided that Stansfield is right on. I thought I was so mature and my feelings were very mature and real to me then. NOW, I look back and know I was j...more
The Sound of Rain is a story about a boy who loves to play the guitar and has big dreams to become a famous musician one day. He and his brother who plays the drums, had practiced all the time when they were younger. These two boys lived with their mom while they were in school, and after they graduated they helped their mom take care of bills and such since their biological father was nowhere to be found since he was an abusive husband/father. The story follows this little family on their journ...more
My wife and I listened to this book on tape while traveling to Arizona for the holidays. It is the first of what was originally a three part stroy of Jason Wolfe that ended up being five books. We have listened to four of the five book and are now in number five. If you get started with this series definitely read them in order: The Sound of RAIN; THUNDER; WINDS; STORM and finally The Silence of SNOW. This is an excellent group of books around the life of Rock Star Jason Snow and his childhood s...more
First of all it is an Anita Stansfield. Just so you know the male character cries...a lot. There is swooning and lots of love to go around. Sometimes I wonder what world these people actually live on, and then I remember this is a work of fiction. That being said, it was a good clean little love story that is about a wannabe musician(clearly the author hasn't work with them before, because this kid has ambition where MOST of them don't). There is a lot of tragedy in this kids life and really? Yo...more
Oh my. I decided to wait to review book one in this series until I had made it through the trilogy. I hoped that book three would make book one and two worth the effort. It did, but I found book one to be very frustrating. Book two made me angry. Book three brought me great joy. The only thing all three books had in common was their ability to make me cry.
So, if you have trouble reading through tear swollen eyes, these books are not for you.
The series should not be called the Jayson Wolfe trilo...more
So, if you have trouble reading through tear swollen eyes, these books are not for you.
The series should not be called the Jayson Wolfe trilo...more
I had high hopes for this book because it is based along the Oregon Coast which is my favorite place to be. I also love to listen to the sound of rain thus the title pulled me in. I was a little leery though because I have not been a fan of Anita Stansfield for a while. In typical Stansfield fashion a lot of terrible things happen in the book, almost too much to take in for entertainment purposes. The was a pager turner though, but I was sorely disappointed in the ending. For me a page turner is...more
My mom is a huge Anita Stansfield fan and she is constantly telling me that I need to read her books. Since I don't read too many romances these days, I've ignored her advice. However, I bought her this book for her birthday and after she had read it she sent it up to me to read. So, since I had been the one to give it to her I decided to give it a shot.
I have to say that Anita has a very easy way of writing. It wasn't hard to get invested in the story and I found that I liked the characters in...more
I have to say that Anita has a very easy way of writing. It wasn't hard to get invested in the story and I found that I liked the characters in...more
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I am almost embarassed to be reading (or rather listening to on CD) Anita Stansfield again. I haven't read one of her books in 10 years but i am trying to listen to books on CD while I work and this is what the library had in the 10 seconds I had to grab one.
I really liked it despite the sappiness and completely fictional characters. No man cries as much as the men in Stansfields books (nor talks about his feelings....puh-lease!) and I have never known high school students so mature. If it had...more
I really liked it despite the sappiness and completely fictional characters. No man cries as much as the men in Stansfields books (nor talks about his feelings....puh-lease!) and I have never known high school students so mature. If it had...more
I didn't know how I felt about it at the beginning then slowly but surely I started to really feel the characters. The main characters are Jayson and Elizabeth. I just barely finished the book and I am feeling really strange at the moment because I feel so connected with their feelings and experiences. The two of them fall completely in love, they are living a fairy tale and never want it to end. He thinks that they are meant to be, she knows she loves him but there is something in her that won...more
I purchased all three books of this series (on tape) to listen to on our car trip to Utah in July. We listend to "The Sound of Rain" the first week in May on a brief road trip, and enjoying every moment of it. In fact we parked the car in the driveway when we got home and continued listening to the end. We were touched by the caring people in Jaysons life, his mother, his brother and now Elizabeth's family. We cried when he left for california without Elizabeth. Yet, he stayed true to the music...more
I loved this book! It is a three way series and I'm on the third! I read 115 pages today! It came out Yesterday or on Friday! the second book is called A distant Thunder! Read it! . The third is called a Wind of Hope! It is a romance series possibly a novel and is written by an LDS Author. It's about a boy who has music talents and creates a band and his life and it's Amazing! I can't give away any secrets but his life is hard and oh my Goodness! It's Amazing!!!!!!!! You'll love it ...just read...more
Feb 01, 2010
Rachael Baggett
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I have never picked up an Anita Stansfield book, though I know she is a popular LDS author. This was handed down to me from my mom. I read it and thought she did a great job with her characters, but this book was way too sappy and her details were very vague. She tells the emotion, but doesn't show it and she repeats herself a lot. Because of this, I struggled between rating it a "2" or a "3". The plot line was intriguing and I liked the interactions between the characters. This was a fast read....more
I've heard so many conflicting reviews that I was hesitant to start this series. It was good, and very emotional, which you have to expect from Anita Stansfield. One frustrating thing for me was that I wanted to hear the music they were talking about, sung by the characters. Since they are fictional that's not possible, so I listened to some of the old Elton John songs that are in this book, and I have to say I am now a huge fan of older Elton John music. If you do read this book, listen to the...more
My mother-in-law gave me this book to read because she thought I would like it. I did, much to my surprise. I don't like most LDS-lit, but this novel was different in the sense that the only LDS reference was that the alcholic abusive ex-husband was Mormon. :) I liked the characters. The close relationship Jason has with his mom is similar to the relationship that I have with my mom. It is hard for others to understand, but I can talk to my mom about everything. I hope the rest of the series is...more
This was my first Anita Stansfield book and I was a bit surprised. The writing was great, but the story was,...well, a real downer. I should know better than to continue when a book starts with a man being miserable, brokenhearted and alone wondering what went wrong and why the girl he loved couldn't love him back. Obviously the entire rest of the book would explain why, but it doesn't change current day misery in the end. It actually had no ending, just a hope that things get better for Jayson...more
“The Sound of Rain” Anita Stansfield "SPOILER ALERT"
Jayson and Drew Wolfe, two brothers raised in Montana by their loving mother, Leslie Wolfe, and their alcoholic father, Jay Wolfe. Jayson and Drew don’t have a good relationship with their father, who is a mormon and abusive husband. Leslie Wolfe had to endure many years of abuse from her husband. The brothers are now older and in high school. Their father has been in jail for domestics and the family has not seen him for awhile.
Jayson and Dre...more
Jayson and Drew Wolfe, two brothers raised in Montana by their loving mother, Leslie Wolfe, and their alcoholic father, Jay Wolfe. Jayson and Drew don’t have a good relationship with their father, who is a mormon and abusive husband. Leslie Wolfe had to endure many years of abuse from her husband. The brothers are now older and in high school. Their father has been in jail for domestics and the family has not seen him for awhile.
Jayson and Dre...more
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I have read many of her books. In this book she seemed to change her style up a little. Of course there was some hard trials which is typical of her books. But there is also great examples of parenting, relationships, and overcoming hard things. I knew this was the first book of three from the beginning and as I read got so excited for more of Jayson and Elizabeth but as the book neared the end I was disappointed. I will continue with the series for sure. Its a good story and I have to know what...more
I first read this book a couple of years ago. After reading it I didn't think that I was too impressed but lately I had been thinking about the story lines and how much I really did enjoy the book. I bought the book on my iPad and read it fairly quickly. Although the romance is somewhat cheesy you need that from a story every now and then. I'm excited to read the sequels if I remember right I liked the other ones more than this one. I love the music aspect to these books. It really makes them st...more
The typical LDS romance book. Written totally according to formula and is completely predictable. Beware: heavy-handed tugging of the heart strings. I personally hate manipulative stories, and this one is exactly that. There are 4 books in the series, but I'm not going to be reading them. My sister-in-law told me what happens, and I was pretty much on the mark about the plot. The writing isn't even that believable or well-crafted. Unless you want to cry, don't read it!
This is probably one of my least favorite Stansfield books. I thought it started out interesting and then was incredibly slow and took forever to go somewhere. It wasn't until about three quarters through the book that it got interesting. I also feel like her characters are always too black and white. A character has to be extremely bad or good and struggling. I don't think it was necessary to make Elizabeth's mom so over the top. I probably would have given it a 2, but the last part of the book...more
I got this from a good friend, and I thought it sounded pretty good. I found the story to be entertaining, but there are things that always drive me crazy in LDS fiction. The attitude of non LDS chacters is so unrealistic. This book was the same in that respect. It was obviously written by an author who knows little of life outside the LDS church(either that, or she just wrote it for readers who want a rosey picture painted in their heads). It was easy to read and I will probably finish the tril...more
Great book especially for teens who will be dating or are dating. I think this book is great because it gives young people an idea of how love and passion can be saved for someone you marry. I think I will be alble to talk more opening with my teen because of the topics the characters discuss with their parents. Thanks you Anita Stansfield for writing a novel that is fun to listen read but talks about important and sacred issues.
I loved the Sound of Rain. It was so different from anything else that Anita Stansfield has written. I could so closely relate to the characters because of my strong music background. This is a very heartfelt and emotionally charged book. I was able to grow close to the main characters from the first chapter. This was a book that I did not want to end. I am recommending this one to all of you; just have the tissues ready. I can't wait to read the other books in this series.
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This book was a little different than most Anita Stansfield books, which is what enticed me to read it in the first place. I love being whisked away in dramatic stories, but Stansfield books have always left me feeling like the whole story line was a stretch. This one didn't have the nauseatingly perfect ribbon tied into a bow at the end, but we'll see what happens as the story progresses, since it is only the first book in the trilogy.
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My first impression of Anita Stansfield was not good. It was very soap-opera-ey. Characters were shallow and totally unbelievable. I listened to this novel on CD, and had to laugh out loud several times when the male voice tried to imitate a female voice crying. One redeeming quality- it was a clean romance novel. I'll probably read books two and three only because I can laugh about them with my Mom.
I loved this book. I will never look or think of musicians the same way. The romance takes me right back to my teenage and courting years where all you can think about is your boyfriend. It also reminds me that the choices we make as teenagers do effect the rest of our lives. Why do we have to make such important decisions when our brain hasn't fully developed yet?
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Anita Stansfield, the LDS market's #1 best-selling romance novelist, is an imaginative and prolific writer whose romantic stories have captivated her readers.
"With sales approaching a half million, Anita Stansfield has clearly found a niche in this market," said Nicole Martin, Publicist for Covenant Communications. "Her popularity stems from her ability to empathize with and write about the issues...more
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"With sales approaching a half million, Anita Stansfield has clearly found a niche in this market," said Nicole Martin, Publicist for Covenant Communications. "Her popularity stems from her ability to empathize with and write about the issues...more
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