After Ten eBook Michele Shriver
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Four women, once best friends, have not spoken to each other in ten years. A drunken, decade old promise and a class reunion will bring them together again.
For Jordan, her lofty dreams now a distant memory and her life at a crossroads, a reunion with her one-time friends offers a chance to make amends and start anew, but only if she can avoid falling back into self-destructive habits.
After years of struggling with her identity, Sarah has found personal and professional contentment. Will she finally have the courage to reveal the secret she hid from her friends?
Beth thought she was on the verge of having at all, but after a personal crisis now risks losing it all. In order to face her future, she must first find a way to let go of the past.
Tracey is still searching for happiness and approval. Will she find what she is looking for at the reunion, or leave stronger because she doesn't?
A story of forgiveness, acceptance, the bonds of friendship and the age old question of whether you can go home again.
After Ten eBook Michele Shriver
From the moment I began reading After Ten, I felt at home with the four women meeting the night before their ten-year law school reunion. As Beth sits waiting for the other three to show up, I'm wondering how the other women fared even though I don't know any of their stories. Because of Beth's anxiety at the meeting, I know the stories will be universal ones shared by my friends and me.After Ten is my kind of women's literature, and the telling and revealing of each woman's story did not disappointment me in the least. Shriver creates a history of the four lawyers that is unique. Its the emotions evoked by their experiences that makes it universal. Beth, Jordan, Sarah, and Tracey are all successful, at least as deemed by the outside world, if not by their families. But each carries scars of the friendships that formed in the first year of law school. Those scars went deep enough that the women lost track of each other and their friendships. They've managed to keep up through the alumni newsletter on a superficial and artificially devised tidbits.
Shriver slowly reveals the stories taking the reader from the promise made to return ten years after graduation to their favorite college hangout the night before the reunion. All four managed to keep their promise to one another, and Tracey brings evidence of that night in the form of a cocktail napkin where she wrote the aspirations for each of the four. As the napkin reveals their hopes and dreams, reality converges to allow the women to share secrets that reveal not all is as perfect as the periodic newsletters profess.
I so liked the book, I've already downloaded Shriver's book Sixth South that focuses on one of the secondary characters from After Ten. If you like strong female characters with compelling stories, then you'll enjoy reading this book. I highly recommend it for your summer reading enjoyment.
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After Ten eBook Michele Shriver Reviews
After Ten is the story of four college friends who decide to meet ten years after graduation at their ten-year reunion to see if their lives have turned out the way they have planned. The four women have each had very different experiences with work, love and family. Some of them have also held past grudges against each other that they were not able to let go of.
After Ten is a well-written women's fiction novel that delves into the lives of each of these four women and the joys and pains they experience. The characters and situations are definitely believable and the storyline is interesting. I enjoyed reading this book, and at times even had trouble putting it down because I wanted to see what happened next. Author Michele Shriver did an excellent job with this debut novel and I look forward to reading her future books.
Poorly developed characters. After 200 pages, I can't distinguish between the women and couldn't tell you what they even look like, other than Jordan having long hair, with Beth being the least developed of the 4. After the many books this author has published, it was an utter disappointment to read a predictable boring story with utterly forgettable characters unless you are trying to fall asleep. Don't bother.
This isn't fine literature. You won't be driven to explore deep philosophical ideas about the human condition, or the nature of evil, or any of that high art stuff. This is chick-lit cheese, like a Lifetime Movie (remember those?) of novels, with perhaps a wee bit more adult content than they could show before 9pm. However, unlike too many of the book deals I've read, this one is well-written, with fewer typos and actual complete, coherent sentences. (Note I find it sad just how many "books" are available that don't meet these basic standards - but that's another review, or twenty, not this one) The author sets up likeable and believable characters and plot, and keeps it together all the way to a satisfying conclusion. I wish she'd given a little more time to their college years, to more richly set up the later storyline, but I didn't feel like the lack of that exposition was a hindrance to my understanding of the characters' motivations at the "ten years later" point, which is the actual focus of the book. In short it was a fun, quick read, good for your summer beach bag.
After Ten is an interesting story about the trials of growing up and how things aren't always what you think they'll be. Michele Shriver does a great job in this book of showing us the lives of four friends from law school, ten years after they graduate.
I love seeing how things in their lives did (or didn't) go according to plan in the years since the women parted ways. It all builds until we see their reunion with each other, none of them knowing whether friendship can be repaired after feelings that were hurt in the past.
I read this book in just three days once I started it. The beginning started out a little different, and it took me time to get used to going between present day and flashbacks, but overall it worked once I became accustomed to it.
I admire the way the author doesn't shy away from writing about tough issues. Terrific novel and I can't wait for Michele Shriver's next one.
After Ten by Michele Shriver is different from most things I've read lately. I've always been a huge fan of realistic fiction. I do enjoy other genres, but I've always been drawn to a story that stems from real life, not too farfetched or fluffed up so much it becomes unbelievable. The author does a fabulous job of taking four very different main characters and taking you through their personal journeys of friendships, love, loss, betrayal, and addiction.
The story starts in present day Texas where the four former classmates / friends are to meet up for the first time in ten years. As they reluctantly show up and share with one another, truths come out and the reader gets an inside look at the last ten years since graduating from law school.
Shriver is a top notch story teller. The writing style moving between past and present is not an easy one, but the author does a superb job.
I can't wait to read more and I highly recommend After Ten to all!
From the moment I began reading After Ten, I felt at home with the four women meeting the night before their ten-year law school reunion. As Beth sits waiting for the other three to show up, I'm wondering how the other women fared even though I don't know any of their stories. Because of Beth's anxiety at the meeting, I know the stories will be universal ones shared by my friends and me.
After Ten is my kind of women's literature, and the telling and revealing of each woman's story did not disappointment me in the least. Shriver creates a history of the four lawyers that is unique. Its the emotions evoked by their experiences that makes it universal. Beth, Jordan, Sarah, and Tracey are all successful, at least as deemed by the outside world, if not by their families. But each carries scars of the friendships that formed in the first year of law school. Those scars went deep enough that the women lost track of each other and their friendships. They've managed to keep up through the alumni newsletter on a superficial and artificially devised tidbits.
Shriver slowly reveals the stories taking the reader from the promise made to return ten years after graduation to their favorite college hangout the night before the reunion. All four managed to keep their promise to one another, and Tracey brings evidence of that night in the form of a cocktail napkin where she wrote the aspirations for each of the four. As the napkin reveals their hopes and dreams, reality converges to allow the women to share secrets that reveal not all is as perfect as the periodic newsletters profess.
I so liked the book, I've already downloaded Shriver's book Sixth South that focuses on one of the secondary characters from After Ten. If you like strong female characters with compelling stories, then you'll enjoy reading this book. I highly recommend it for your summer reading enjoyment.
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