Wendy-578

Hi Wendy, I’ve been blocked from ITA!! She finally got sick of the critiques about pace and plot holes and NO STORY. LOL. Oh well… hope she hasn’t done the same to you! 

@Wendy-578 @Nancy_818   NEW BOOK
          
          Hey! I stumbled onto a new Wattpad book -- OG H/h HEA (Completed) -- called "I cannot lose you again" by RustySoul30 (Julianna Cole). I've jumped around a bit as I've read -- and even cheated by reading the Epilogue -- and it's an HEA. It's intriguing -- and I think I'm going to start over from the beginning for a clean read without skipping chps. But - in short - the book starts with Aria, a widow, mourning her husband Chase who died quite a few years earlier in combat (US Soldier). She is a nurse (American) and never got over him. She always felt he was alive since they didn't find a body - but they buried a casket and issued the death certificate. That was that. Until one day....he turns up ALIVE and MARRIED, living in New Zealand (I think). He has ZERO memory of his past life -- not his name -- not his wife -- not his friends -- nothing.   He now goes by a new name -- Will -- and he married his therapist (doctor?) who helped him recover -- whose name is Emily. So -- when they meet -- it starts a long and confusing love triangle -- because when he sees Aria -- he immediately has distinct memories -- like he knows he loved her -- that he still loves her -- but everything is cloudy. In the meantime, he "loves" his wife Emily -- and is loyal to her -- but he's confused b/c you can see he has stronger and more passionate reactions to Aria. Interestingly, Will/Chase have different personalities, too -- and Emily and Aria are together, overlapping (both in pain) while this whole cluster-fck unwinds. What we learn is that Chase suffered (off page) abuse as a POW -- and he survived it by disassociating and forgetting everything. So, the book follows a long road of therapy to sort out who he is - what he remembers - and how he feels. And, YES, they do address how improper it was for Emily to abuse her position and get romantic w/ a patient w/ no memory - but they don't make her a monster either. It's a good read- I thought I'd pass it on.

@littlesister72
          
          Honestly the book betrayal that you saw was in my opinion awful. It’s on KU. It’s about a girl and has boyfriend that she goes to visit his family for the summer. She gets there and sees the H and his wife in the pool having sex and it’s passionate and hot. H is totally in love with his wife of 20 years and the girl I believe is 19 and he’s 40. He starts seeing the 19 year old who I think she started coming on him and he went for it but believe me she knew what she was doing. She has tragic background story. But guess what he loves his wife but the more he hangs out with the 19 year old the wife miraculous becomes a bitch. Should his wife stick up to her asshole parents yes! Oh and all of the sudden the son announces he’s gay even though he’s had girlfriend for two years and the mom doesn’t handle as well as she should because she was in shock. Not everyone is perfect but she does come around. Dad was on board with it because shocker now her feels it’s Plato bang ex girlfriend. He gets found out because 19 year old gets pregnant has a procedure to get rid of. He’s now completely and totally in love with 19 year and leaves his wife. But hey it’s okay because there good friends are together from affair because his wife cheated so he cheated and got the girl.. so he’s going to as well. It’s basically a hea for cheaters and everyone in the comments are like poor 19 year old. This kind of book makes me vomit! 

Hi Wendy, just reading some of the ITA chat on your page and agree with all the ladies you’ve gathered here. 
          
          But I wanted to let you know about a story I’ve just read and LOVED. It’s extremely English, set in the mid-60s in a country village and a total change of pace from the cheating stuff. It made me laugh a lot, has steel in its spine and I want shout about it. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1633651905?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading&wp_uname=Littlesister72
          
          Hhhmmm… not sure this link looks live? Let me post this anyway…
          
          And congrats to your daughter on her graduation 

@Wendy-578 @slcwatt55 ITA Door in the Wall 
          
          Chapter 35 and we are still nowhere! 
          
          S, I saw all your valid comments inside the story! Yep — a hot new assistant and he’d be all over that instead of pretend wallowing at home. 
          
          Sorry to clutter your feed but just had to vent about the illogical here.
          
          David supposedly goes to the flower shop at 3 p.m. Saturday afternoon to pick out the flowers to be arranged and delivered for the Shower that was supposedly happening the Saturday after Thanksgiving. At 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon, he is checking the IG feed to see what Randa has posted about the Shower.
          
          How did the magical flowers ordered Saturday at 3 p.m. get there in time to be front and center at the Shower? 
          
          I'd really like to understand the timeline the writer follows. Were David picking out the flowers Friday the day before, or even Saturday morning would be lightly plausible. But the deliberate mention of the time and day make it all wrong. It's ridiculous that this kind of stuff is never noticed and fixed. 
          
          Then David gets the video from a mystery sender and suddenly he's thinking about the identity of someone who sent a video 7 months ago? Of course, 7 months and 35 chapters later, we still have no idea who sent that original video.
          
          Why would Kathryn suddenly give away David’s bracelet? And did they even have David from birth? I thought they adopted him when he was a bit older?? And why wouldn’t the first born child (Max) have gotten it? She held on for 17 years in case??! 
          
          I keep waiting for some great payoff and it's insanity on my part because of course it will never come.
          
          Anyway, if you read it, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the chapter.

@Wendy-578 @slcwatt55 ITA Baby Shower Pt 1
          
          Hey ladies, I saw you both commented on the story, so I’m touching base here. (Once the author blocked me, then eventually unblocked me, I refuse to comment/vote on her work.)
          
          So, what the heck was that?! Like you, S, I caught the X on the card exactly like he and Ava used. Just GROSS. And I laughed hard at your comment, Wendy, that at least the daughter got a card with her flowers! True!
          
          Random thoughts… Randa wearing black to a Baby Shower is a huge NO.
          “David attending in vase form” was kinda funny.
          “Razor-sharp” Emily not remembering the names of women invited?
          David needing center stage is just so typical. As you said, attention whore.
          
          It continues to irritate me how much unnecessary fluff is in this. Details that mean nothing get huge attention. And the 3-4 updates in a month mean this book will not be done until almost CHRISTMAS!!! Insanity.
          
          Now… Theo’s “gift”… which was actually a knife in the front and back of his mother. What was with the “pancakes on Saturday” line? The entire affair, David went to work early Saturday and spent time s’mexing up Ava before getting home late. Funny how Theo conveniently forgets the HOURS David was away with Ava. He’s such a great dad, he put Ava first that NYC weekend and was texting with her while eating dinner with you, Theo. The revisionist history of David as a good father is so insulting to readers. Especially Theo, who David mocked and complained about at least 4 times in my memory. Ridiculous! And to somewhat publicly put that on Emily’s shoulders, for her to bear the guilt of a situation she did NOT create… UGH. Theo seriously does not seem to understand David did this. David is at fault. Why is Theo acting otherwise?
          
          And people praising this as such a brilliant chapter. Stop it. BTW, Eliza buying the dress for the Shower… Why does Emily constantly come off as too incompetent to handle anything??! Everyone is constantly propping her up.

@Wendy-578 Hi! Just checking in after latest ITA chapter…
          
          I saw your comments on ITA. I was so frustrated reading those alleged romantic memories of Emily. Too little, way too late, in my opinion. We all begged the author to weave in anything ‘loving’ in Book 1, and now it’s so late, his memories cause scoffing not swooning. They’re not plausible after all of his behavior. Frankly, they’re also not the slightest bit romantic. He seems to focus on Emily’s flaws in his memories, more than positive traits or experiences. We’re in chapter 30 (!!) and he’s just now having sentimental thoughts. 
          
          I like him less and less each chapter. And Jonah wanting to go camping in November in Wisconsin is insane. Talk about not plausible. I’m very frustrated by the plot, or lack thereof. And L saying there’s some important chapters coming up actually annoyed me only because we’ve been subjected to so much unnecessary filler! Just give us something worthwhile then! 
          
          If she maintains this pace, the book will not be done for 10 Months! Please tell me she’s not going to do that to us. I still don’t get the constant, oh I have to rewrite and re-edit so many months after she claimed it was done. And yet, even with the alleged re-edits, there are problems like the missing sentence(s) in chapter 30.
          
          Sorry to swing by to rant, I’m just frustrated and disappointed at the same time. Hope you’re doing well! 

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