Yesterday and Tomorrow

by Candice Adams

Ήταν ερωτευμένοι από τότε που πήγαιναν στο γυμνάσιο. Εκείνη ήταν κόρη του πλουσιότερου ανθρώπου της πόλης. Εκείνος γιος ενός μεθύστακα παλιατζή. Η μητέρα της Σίνθια όμως μπήκε αμέσως ανάμεσά τους και τους χώρισε πριν το αίσθημά τους προχωρήσει. Δέκα χρόνια αργότερα τα πράγματα έχουν αλλάξει πολύ. Ο Τζέι είναι τώρα ένας από τους μεγαλύτερους επιχειρηματίες της χώρας, αλλά η καρδιά του είναι ακόμα δοσμένη στη Σίνθια. Και πάλι όμως η μητέρα της θα μπει ανάμεσά τους. Θα βρει άραγε τη δύναμη η Σίνθια να ξεπεράσει τα εμπόδια και να πάει κοντά στον Τζέι που δεν έπαψε ν' αγαπά;...

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1986

About the author

Lois Arvin Walker borned in 1951, was a published romance writer since the early 80's, who signed regency romances under her real name and under the pseudonym of Rebecca Ashley, and contemporary romances under the pseudonyms Sabrina Myles, and Candice Adams.

Reviews

[Trenchologist · Rating 3 out of 5]

2+

So for reasons that are somewhat known and somewhat got by me completely, I'm way behind on my reading challenge. Which means it's time to crank through several romance and make up some ground! For this set I want to attack a pile I've had a while of "trope I know you like so here take these I'm moving" books that were given to me by a friend. I also am not that invested in any of them so hopefully I can be brief (lol @ self) in writing up these reviews.

And I do like this trope! Wrong side of the tracks boy, right side of the tracks girl (or reversed, or both boys, whatever), they really like each other but Things Transpire. And then they get another chance.

This one is serviceable--in many ways, including the trope--and that's about all. It's sweet and inconsequential. I didn't dislike it or the leads but I wasn't invested. There wasn't a lot to resolve, just the need to come to a few realizations and make up their mind about things. For all it was "they're meeting again as grownups," they both had to grow up to become a couple. And that's fine too; changing for the better to be together is healthy and good, even if here, as the rest of the book, it's a bit bland.

There isn't a lot to it. The prose is spry -- so quick there's almost zero geography and who cares about setting a scene, much less pace that we're doing time and scene changes from one page to the next. There's a lot of head-hopping (typical for the time). The ending is a very tidy bow, and the few things I thought were introduced to throw at least a temporary wrench or up the tension came to nothing, alas. At least they weren't bungled?

I thought the best moments were the few times Walker allowed their musings to turn to the past--and also in flashback--because it garnered more depth. But I figure they've settled into a lovely jet-set NYC life and got past all those memories which, well, good for them.

And I did appreciate the heroine realizes he's got it all misunderstood, goes to explain, and makes him listen so they work it out. That's always welcome when the relationship hinge is misunderstandings. The leads are likable enough. It's all very fine. Just fine, and nothing more, but nothing awful for that.

[Diane Carlisle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was bored, so I picked this up at the flea market. I'm not much of a romance reader, especially the more modern romances. But, this one was published in 1986, so I was like "Okay".

It didn't really do much for me and it's not an amazing story, but it was a quick read (a total of 2 hours). The only minor things I have to complain about is the verbiage used in writing it. I'm particularly not happy to read certain phrases that make me cringe, but in this book, those were sparse enough.

"His lips danced over hers with white-hot intensity" didn't really work as a visceral response and the visual of lips dancing is distracting in my opinion.

I won't linger much on the verbiage, but this one last sentence that sort of turned me off:

"Putting her hand on the door-handle, she opened the door."

Well of course she did! She wouldn't change her mind and decide to open the door with her foot, would she? Seriously, I don't appreciate reading the same words in close proximity of one another, let alone two! Granted, "hand" is not the same as "door-handle", but still, it was a bit jarring.

Aside from getting bored at times, this wasn't as bad a read as I thought it would be. Much better and more believable than one of the more "modern" romances I attempted to read. That's right, attempted (I couldn't get passed the 2nd chapter without calling BS). This one, at least, kept me reading until the end.