Soultime: novel of a hard start

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You probably wouldn't know it, though, by the way Sara still mourns the loss of her husband Cole like it just happened. She lives in a constant state of depression and doing the most mundane of tasks takes up too much energy for her to accomplish. This is what she has turned into, a sorrowful zombie. When the memories and feelings become too hard to bear, one call has the power to calm her down some. One call from the only person she has left, Lincoln, Cole's brother. Lincoln can't take it anymore.

He refuses to see what Sara is doing to herself. She no longer resembles the warm, kind woman that she use to be. She hasn't died, she is still alive. So now it's up to him to push her limits until she can let go and finally live her life like she is suppose to. But Lincoln has been hiding something from her for a long time and the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes for him to not show her how he feels. This story was so beautiful! I was an emotional wreck for most of the book so I want to warn you in advance, you will need to have a box of tissues at hand! The story was very well written.

I was able to connect with Sara and feel every single emotion she had. I had never felt such a loss for a character I've never even met, but I was able to, I was grieving Cole's death. The journey that Sara goes through in order to move forward felt like I was going through that journey along with her. I thought it was perfectly paced, it made it that much more believable to me, including the characters. Sara closed her eyes, nodding. Even when you don't want me to be. Even when you don't think you need me to be, or you don't think you deserve me to be.

Take Care, Sara

I'll never leave you. He was super supportive , selfless and always there for her to make her smile. He never gave up on her , no matter how many times she pushed him away. I seriously don't know what Sara would have done without him. He was going through the same grief she was but he was able to hide it from everyone better than she was.

Yet, he still sacrificed himself in order to ensure that she would be okay. Even though it was hurting him to be so close to her without being able to show her how he truly felt for her. He really was a wonderful character. Overall, it was an amazing heart wrenching read but it also made you reflect on life and it helped as a reminder to always cherish those loved ones around you.

I ugly cried so much, but I also couldn't help but smile during some scenes. The story was told in Sara's POV and I thought the transition from present to past was done so, seamlessly. I loved how much Lincoln and Sara needed and took care of each other. It was so great to see them find happiness and become somewhat healed. The ending was so beautiful and sweet. I loved it and I would definitely recommend it to everyone.

View all 38 comments. Jun 10, Anna rated it really liked it Recommended to Anna by: Time made the wounds deepen; it made them grow. It was her enemy and it was winning the battle against her soul. Time was ruining her, dissolving her, destroying her. It was all about time. She cried for herslf. It was too much. There was too much hurt in her life. Sara longed for it all to stop. It's been a year since lif 4 Holy trickle-of-steady-tears-and-devour-a-gallon-of-ice-cream stars!!! It's been a year since life took a more tragic turn for Sara.

She lost her husband Cole. She is in such deep mourning and depression she just goes through the motions of each day. Her story broke my heart. I have read plenty of sad, weepy books but this book It made me think way too much The beautiful writing in this book took me each step of the way in the stages of grief with Sara. Lincoln Lincoln is Cole's brother.

Lincoln was patient, kind, strong, inspirational.. This situation is a little on the quandary side for me. Is this type of love forbidden or taboo? This story never crossed THAT line for me. I loved how Lincoln was so strong for Sara, yet he was grieving too. He was truly her rock. His eyes were tortured and Sara's heart hurt seeing that look in them. He hid it better than she, but he was hurting just as much as she was.

Find a reason to laugh. When I saw you. I knew you were meant for me. I'd never felt like that before and I've never felt like that since. I tried to deny it, I tried to forget you. Every woman I dated; I hoped she'd be the one to take the place of you in my heart. Only it never worked. Not even the fact that you were my brother's could make it stop. I won't stop, I'm done stopping, Sara.

Just once turn around and see ME. I'm not losing you too. I'm never losing you, Sara, never. I'm not letting you go. Your life is worth living. Take the chance and love again I really struggled with this book and how to truly rate it. Flashbacks of happy times were absolutely torture.

Somehow, although I was numb I felt like there was hope Its difficult to explain without giving the story away. Although it was painful at most times I am so glad I read this book!!!! The thoughts it provoked, the emotions that got scattered all over the place, all the sappy quotes you have going through your head I highly recommend reading this book with a whole box of tissues, your bestie who is NEVER going to read this book so you can vent your thoughts spoilers a-million, arm yourself with a whole gallon of ice cream, and This song is titled "Sunburn" Look into their eyes you'll see the faithless crying Save me, save me, save me And what are they to feel?

And who are they to be? You can do it!!!! View all 64 comments. Everything reminds her of him, she remembers him constantly, aches for him, cannot bear to live without him and has reached a point where she no longer wants to. It would never be him…. She longed for it to stop. This poor woman had had everything she loved in life torn away from her and she existed in this state of… nothingness. Still alive; the only one left. Left with memories that haunted her everywhere she went.

She remembered his smell, the twinkle in this eyes, the sound of his voice… it just broke my heart. She felt like half a person; bereft, lost. I honestly read many scenes in the book with tears in my eyes. He knew what it was like to suffer that kind of loss, go through those emotions… and he also knew how to come out the other side. You know that, right? This is what Cole would want. You know it too. You can get mad at me and you can try and push me away, but guess what?

Deeply understanding, patient and respectful of her pain and yet equally determined to help her live again. As far as the romance went… this was not a book that was just about immediately moving on and I have to say I really loved that about it. There was nothing about trying to replace or even move forward from her husband for a long time and when something did happen, it was so slow and natural that it never felt disrespectful or rushed.

Maybe they were saving each other. So much heart ache. But I think at the same time that it was because of this pacing that everything felt as natural as it did… And also, the more the book moved on, the more hidden feeling came out.

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Hidden feelings that actually made the place she was able to move on to okay. Tragic though it was. I did find her suffering realistic though. It was heart wrenching and believable. Love was strong and people were stronger because of it; love continued, in all forms, in every way, until the end of time and even after that. It was about finding the strength to move on even while still holding onto and never forgetting a love so powerful that even in death it would not let go.

View all 10 comments. One year she has spent grieving, but not healing. One year she has spent losing her herself, a little more every day. Nothing was as bright as it used to be, nothing smelled as good. They had four years together. Four years of happy memories. Four years where Cole was her whole world, her everything.

You could feel the love they had. Whether she wants to or not, she is going to be dragged back into the land of the living. While she has managed to push most people away, there are a few that still remain. Lincoln is her rock.

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He is what keeps her from giving up. His strength was awe inspiring. His love was stronger, and more steadfast than any heroes I can remember. It was a portrait of grieving. It was a story of coming back from the edge. It was a lesson in holding on to whatever that special thing or person is that keeps the darkness at bay. It was about forgiveness, fate, and redemption. I felt every bit of sorrow, pain and guilt right along with her. I cried, and cried, and cried again some more. I was shocked that I never got frustrated with Sara. It may make me a horrible bitch, but usually I find myself mentally telling the character to get the heck over it!

It was amazing how, even though you knew from the beginning that Sara had lost her husband, the details, and circumstances surrounding the tragedy are actually revealed slowly — and it seemed — for maximum impact. Each new revelation was like another stab to the heart. When it becomes clear that Lincoln has feelings for Sara, feeling that are more than shared sorrow and brotherly affection, I thought I might lose it. I was so afraid for him and for Sara.

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I actually found myself almost wishing it would never come out. I do wish we had gotten a longer epilogue. I needed a spectacular fairytale-esque ending complete with every heart and flower known to man to help me deal with how my heart hurt over this book. But, instead of going with over the top unrealistically perfect endings, I got a real ending.

I just felt totally wrung out — like my emotions had been on hyper drive for so long that I was almost numb from it. It really is a spectacularly written book, with a beautiful, poignant story to tell. View all 28 comments. Times I just wanted to get off this emotional roller coaster bu 5 Gut wrenching stars from me Before I started this I read a review stating that it's best to read this with a box of tissues, and I thought pfffttt yeah right..

Times I just wanted to get off this emotional roller coaster but I couldn't for the life of me stop reading.. Just take the advice and have those tissues beside you, as this will pull on your heart strings.. View all 8 comments. May 02, Migdalia Gerena rated it it was amazing.

Have you ever encountered a book so amazing that it stays with you in your head for days. A book that consumes you to the point that it's difficult to put down. A book that although fiction it propels you to re-evaluate and appreciate what you have. Well, Take Care, Sara is that book and then some. It is perhaps the most poignant, heart-wrenching and well-written book I have ever read.

Lindy Zart will definitely have her readers plunge into the depths of grief and guilt and through the long pain Have you ever encountered a book so amazing that it stays with you in your head for days. Lindy Zart will definitely have her readers plunge into the depths of grief and guilt and through the long painful journey that Sara and Lincoln endures. Readers find yourselves a cozy non-public reading cave with a decent supply of tissue.

I give this book 5 stars without hesitation. Lindy, thank you so much for allowing me the opportunity to Beta read for you. View all 3 comments. This did not make me cry but this book was chalked full of emotion. But also the brothers grief as well. It is heart breaking and emotional and ugly and sweet and swoony.

I would recommend this book to someone who wants an emotional book with the romance aspect light on the sex. I actually really liked that. Jun 02, Lelyana rated it it was amazing Shelves: You had no pull; no power. You had no choice. There was nothing to gamble with; nothing to do to put the odds in your favor. You were there and then you were gone, leaving those around you to realize how insignificant they all really were; leaving them to try to pick up the destroyed pieces. This one was intense , slow, soft but intense. I can feel Sara's desperate soul from the beginning, how she blamed her self for losing her husband, mourning a whole year and can't never see Cole who lying in a hospital bed.

Brain death, no soul. I read last March, one of tear jerking soul slayer book I have ever read in my life I dunno what's going on with her strength, but Sara should be strong, strong for her husband instead of blaming her self and depressed all the time. Good thing was she have her friends, Spencer, Mason and Lincoln, Cole's younger brother to take care of her.

Take care of her anger, protected her from her self. His fingers sifted through her hair, cupping the nape of her neck. Memories suck sometimes, it's going to kill you if you let it interfere you head, hart and soul, it will consumed you and slowly killing you. Even sweet memories can murder you!!! Even when it hurts. Something good happens because of it.

Lincoln never hide his feeling about her, but she's somehow his brother's wife, and he's right there lying the hospital bed, dying. Until after few months after Cole's death, he told Sara about his love. And Sara, rejected that, instead telling him how she felt about him. From a man who loved her. There's some twist when Lincoln told Sara about everything, how he was so hurt hiding his love for her Loving someone, but cannot reach her, and waiting and waiting and waiting for so long. I guess not knowing how you feel about something is normal too. You can love someone and hate them at the same time.

You can want something and not want it too. Sometimes lies are all you have; sometimes you have to tell yourself them just to be able to breathe. Can Lincoln finally holding his dream? Never speak to me again. You hold on and you never let go. View all 16 comments. May 27, A.

Go price match it on Amazon! This book depressed me. Shame on me for not checking reviews before I read it because I should know better by now, and I went into it unprepared. I knew it wasn't a light read but that it would make me cry throughout I didn't expect that. It broke my heart, I could feel every emotion she was going through, and felt all the despair she eep, free on Smashwords!

It broke my heart, I could feel every emotion she was going through, and felt all the despair she felt. You feel like you're in this hole just sinking deeper and deeper and there's just no way out. I felt so much for Lincoln, you can tell he's hurting just as much but trying to be so strong for Sara because he's literally her only anchor keeping her on the ground. I loved Lincoln so much! I loved that he never gave up on her. He never let his conflicting emotions get in the way of being there for her throughout and being whatever she needed him to be.

I was really rooting for them. I don't know how to talk about this book without spoiling anything. I mean you can tell from the synopsis what the book is about but I still felt uncertain about I was dreading the ending because it just didn't seem likely things would turn out the way I wanted them to turn out when Sara was holding on so tight and Lincoln being who he was.

I loved Mason and Spencer and really wish there were more of them both throughout the book. Still, the two of them, and even Gracie, Dana, the very minor characters made a great impact on the story. You have to admire that. Lindy Zart's writing is fantastic! The story is told from 3rd person POV thankfully and the pace of the story is just perfect.

What bothered me was a bit of repetition. Sara this, Sara that, Sara It stood out and I noticed it, so it must have been a little too much. Another thing - view spoiler [At times Sara just seemed Lincoln's feelings were blaringly obvious, and with every time he showed her he cared about her more , she would wonder "What did he mean? He wasn't even being enigmatic, I think everything he said was straight out telling her what he wanted to say without actually saying it.

And while I understood that she was hurting and stuck in some sort of limbo, I just can't believe she wouldn't realize "what he meant". Two use the very long lived but sentient dragons of another reality, and one is plain SF, a coming of age story of immersion in another environment. Reincarnation theory has it that the first cycle of Saturn around your natal chart is for defining the issues of this incarnation, often reiterating mistakes made previously or regaining the skills of a well developed talent such as music, dance, writing, etc. This long lived species is nevertheless mortal, needing bravery and understanding to survive.

These dragons span the ages of Man and preside over the massive shifting of world populations. With a much tighter focus, Sylvia Louise Engdahl tells the story of Journey Between Worlds , about a teenaged woman who has her life all mapped out for herself until her father invites her to live with him on Mars for a year. She meets a second generation Martian guy who expands her horizons. This book is for your teenager to read before bedtime — or maybe not. Apropos of soul-mates, I must highly recommend a very different vampire romance e-book, Forbidden The Claim.

He discovers letters in her room between her and a young woman. Through her letters to his companion, he falls madly in love with the young woman — before ever meeting her. Then she turns up on his doorstep, not knowing her protector has died. This is a short but very powerful karmic romance that raises many questions relevant to Time, the Soul and Love. This is a book for somethings or anyone who has been something in some life! One in the January column. Vicki Nelson starts out as plain human, an ex-police officer with a connection still on the force, Mike Celluci, an old and smoldering flame.

She founds her detective agency and gets involved with Henry Fitzroy, a vampire who writes romance novels. She has a debilitating illness. The "Blood Books" are all about her adventures with Henry, a bisexual vampire without prejudice. He moves from Toronto to Vancouver where his adventures continue. However, the s mod revival , the thriving scooterboy subculture and the acid jazz movement produced a new wave of fans. The popularity of the music was further bolstered in the s by a wave of reissues and compilation albums from small British independent record labels.

Many of these labels were set up by DJs and collectors who had been part of the original northern soul scene. The s — often dismissed as a low period for northern soul by those who had left the scene in the s — featured almost new venues in places as diverse as Bradford, London, Peterborough, Leighton Buzzard, Whitchurch, Coventry and Leicester. Many of those who ceased their involvement in the late s have now returned to the scene and regularly participate in such events.

He plays three northern soul hits, often at the request of his listeners. The northern soul soul movement inspired the movie Soulboy , directed by Shimmy Marcus, and at least one novel: Do I Love You? The music of Yorkshire singer John Newman , one of the most successful English musicians of , has been described as 'northern soul', including his 1 hit " Love Me Again ".

One version of the video for the song features stereotypical northern soul dancing. Additionally, the track samples the famous soul drum break from James Brown's " Funky Drummer ", performed by Clyde Stubblefield. The music style most associated with northern soul is the heavy, syncopated beat and fast tempo of mids Motown Records , which was usually combined with soulful vocals. These types of records, which suited the athletic dancing that was prevalent, became known on the scene as stompers.

Other related music styles also gained acceptance in the northern soul scene. These came to be known as the "3 before 8" and were: As the scene developed in the mid and late s, the more contemporary and rhythmically sophisticated sounds of disco and Philly Soul became accepted at certain venues following its adoption at Blackpool Mecca.

The record that initially popularised this change is usually cited as The Carstairs " It Really Hurts Me Girl " Red Coach , a record initially released late in on promotional copies - but quickly withdrawn due to lack of interest from American Radio stations. In , Andrew Wilson lecturer in criminology at the University of Sheffield published the extensively researched sociological study Northern Soul: Music, drugs and subcultural identity. This work details in some depth the lifestyles associated with the Northern soul scene and the extensive use of Amphetamines otherwise known as speed by many involved.

Wilson argues that, while a significant proportion did not use drugs, drug usage was heavily ingrained in the fast-paced culture of the northern soul scene and contributed to participants' ability to stay up all-night dancing. Many clubs and events were closed down or refused licences due to concerns of local authorities that soul nights attracted drug dealers and users.

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