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Review by Kay Napo -- Noah by Gary Hope
[Following is a volunteer review of "Noah" by Gary Hope.]
The book titled:Noah: Trying to Forget Lost Love by Gary Hope is a novel about two people trying to move on after losing love but constantly find themselves stuck living in memories of what was. The book follows the daily life of the main character Noah who is a columnist in a local publication. Noah is stuck between letting go and living in the present or to keep living in his head reminiscing over the past and living in the hope that he will get back what he lost. The other character is Dorothy a park ranger. She is in the same predicament as Noah.
The book is a follow up on the author's previous novel titled:ANA and it is in that book that the main character Noah meets Dorothy and he simultaneously starts an online relationship with a woman named Ana with whom he only communicates through email. He falls in love with both women.
In this book we start off by learning that Noah suspected that the two women could be one person but instead lost both women while trying to prove his suspicion. Dorothy moves to work at a park in a different town and does not want Noah to contact her and Ana deactivates her email address. We are taken through the many attempts both characters make to try find their lost love. And we are also taken through their journey of moving on, focusing on their work establishing some sort of life routine and friendships to keep the loneliness at bay and eventually dating again.
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars .I felt that the story is dragged for unnecessarily too long without a lot of events taking up the many pages that are used up between each significant event. Instead, the writer takes us through the thoughts of the characters repeatedly even when they remember or think about things that we have already been told about. Instead of just telling us that the character is thinking about a certain memory we are taken through the memory again. Reading their daily routines repeatedly also started to feel just as monotonous as they were feeling living the routine. And maybe the author wanted the reader to feel the same dreaded feeling the characters felt every morning knowing there is nothing new just two or three daily activities and reminiscing over the past till it is time to sleep again.
The book uses simple easy to understand language. It is also extremely easy to follow along. One does not find themselves paging back to reference to a past incident to make sense of a current incident or to find which name belongs to which character and how one is related to the other. I appreciated the inclusion of the questions readers would send Noah for him to respond to. And the writer also included the responses Noah wrote that would be published. They were quite entertaining, funny, witty and at times wise and they offered nice quotes. The writer also goes to great lengths to paint the landscape scenery at the parks talked about in the book. The reader can easily imagine the scenery through the picture the writer paints with descriptions.
I would recommend anyone who is into romance novels and does not mind that the book only has about two exciting moments and the rest is spent going over events that have already happened and a person who is patient to read through repeated thoughts while waiting for the next exciting event.
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The book titled:Noah: Trying to Forget Lost Love by Gary Hope is a novel about two people trying to move on after losing love but constantly find themselves stuck living in memories of what was. The book follows the daily life of the main character Noah who is a columnist in a local publication. Noah is stuck between letting go and living in the present or to keep living in his head reminiscing over the past and living in the hope that he will get back what he lost. The other character is Dorothy a park ranger. She is in the same predicament as Noah.
The book is a follow up on the author's previous novel titled:ANA and it is in that book that the main character Noah meets Dorothy and he simultaneously starts an online relationship with a woman named Ana with whom he only communicates through email. He falls in love with both women.
In this book we start off by learning that Noah suspected that the two women could be one person but instead lost both women while trying to prove his suspicion. Dorothy moves to work at a park in a different town and does not want Noah to contact her and Ana deactivates her email address. We are taken through the many attempts both characters make to try find their lost love. And we are also taken through their journey of moving on, focusing on their work establishing some sort of life routine and friendships to keep the loneliness at bay and eventually dating again.
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars .I felt that the story is dragged for unnecessarily too long without a lot of events taking up the many pages that are used up between each significant event. Instead, the writer takes us through the thoughts of the characters repeatedly even when they remember or think about things that we have already been told about. Instead of just telling us that the character is thinking about a certain memory we are taken through the memory again. Reading their daily routines repeatedly also started to feel just as monotonous as they were feeling living the routine. And maybe the author wanted the reader to feel the same dreaded feeling the characters felt every morning knowing there is nothing new just two or three daily activities and reminiscing over the past till it is time to sleep again.
The book uses simple easy to understand language. It is also extremely easy to follow along. One does not find themselves paging back to reference to a past incident to make sense of a current incident or to find which name belongs to which character and how one is related to the other. I appreciated the inclusion of the questions readers would send Noah for him to respond to. And the writer also included the responses Noah wrote that would be published. They were quite entertaining, funny, witty and at times wise and they offered nice quotes. The writer also goes to great lengths to paint the landscape scenery at the parks talked about in the book. The reader can easily imagine the scenery through the picture the writer paints with descriptions.
I would recommend anyone who is into romance novels and does not mind that the book only has about two exciting moments and the rest is spent going over events that have already happened and a person who is patient to read through repeated thoughts while waiting for the next exciting event.
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