Guest Post: Why Brian Tennyson is a yummy book boyfriend
Brian
Tennyson is a bit of a nerd. He’s a physicist, or as he puts it, “Dr. Brian
Tennyson, physicist at large.” He can’t sing, cook, or do magic. He has an
eternally scruffy look. His hair is messy and his shoes don’t match. Oh, and
did I mention that he’s not wearing underwear throughout most of the book?
But he’s
still a straight-up scrumptious cut of man meat.
Brian is
always game to help Tessa. He’s unstintingly giving and supportive to her.
Sure, he argues with her, but only because he believes that’s in her best
interests. He’ll do whatever he can, whatever it takes, to support her. He’s
even willing to commit art fraud to keep her from losing her thumbs or going to
jail. As he told her, he’s against forgery, but he’s for his wife. “I don’t
agree with what you did, but if you’re in a jam, I have to help you out.”
It’s this
unswerving dedication to his wife that makes Brian so appealing. First,
foremost, and always, he loves Tessa. He admires her, he respects her, and he
is wildly attracted to her. He’ll make love to her anytime, anywhere. He sees
her remarkable potential as well as her beauty. And most lovingly of all, he
built a ground-breaking machine specifically to do the impossible: to see her
one more time.
Book Description:
The Love Of My (Other) Life
by Traci L. Slatton
What
worlds would you move to be with your soulmate?
NYC, A BEAUTIFUL
PAINTER, AND A DIMENSION-TRAVELLING PROFESSOR COLLIDE IN THIS YEAR’S MOST
CHARMING BITTERSWEET ROM-COM
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes The
Love Of My (Other) Life [Parvati Press], this year’s most charming –
and bittersweet – romantic comedy novella.
The latest offering from critically acclaimed
author and Yale and Columbia graduate Traci L. Slatton, The Love Of My (Other) Life follows the beguiling and
uncompromising Tessa Barnum, a 30-something would-be painter struggling to find
her rightful place in the city that never sleeps: the ever-bustling,
always-magical backdrop of New York City.
Frustrated by a world that champions
meaningless post-modernism and money over truth, beauty and transcendence,
Tessa is about to be evicted, too insecure in her own talent to let her
Turner-esque landscapes leave her closet, and emotionally exhausted by a recent
divorce. When she is suddenly faced with Brian Tennyson behind every corner – a
disheveled yet devilishly handsome man who, out of virtually nowhere, claims to
not only be a Yale physics professor who has uncovered a gap in the time-space
continuum, but also her husband in an alternate universe (!) – Tessa finds
herself on a rollercoaster ride the likes of which she never in her wildest
dreams imagined she would have to be prepared for.
A touching and immersive portrait of a young
woman reconciling her passions, convictions and realities with an impossible
love story unfolding around her, The Love Of My (Other) Life is a surprising, funny and engrossing
addition to any romance lover’s bookshelf, digital or otherwise.
“I wrote this novel for the hopeful romantic
in all of us,” says Slatton. “I was inspired by daydreaming, really. I imagined
what it would be like if a scruffy man showed up on my doorstep out of the blue
one day, claiming to be my soulmate – albeit in a parallel world – and then it
turned out he really was! But he couldn’t stay. Tessa is a woman with her own
passion and her own center, but she’s lost her way. She’s been looking for
Brian her entire life and didn’t even know it.”
Heralded by early reviewers as “The Bridges of Madison County meets The Notebook meets Splash,” The Love Of My (Other) Life will
warm even the most cynical of hearts, and is the perfect novel to curl up with
and devour on a chilly February afternoon. Among the topics and themes explored
in it include:
·
True love in all of its madness and power: do
soulmates really exist?
·
The inner life of a closet artist: fear,
frustration and finding the courage to bare your soul to the world
·
Art and the importance of being uplifted by the
small, beautiful things
·
Vulnerability and the modern woman: leaping
into the great unknown to experience all that life has to offer
My Review....
So it took me a bit to get into this book because it was a bit quirky but I ended up loving it. I laughed. I cried. It was like the mixture of the movie Sliding Doors meets the Big Bang theory.
It is also about the idea of possibility. I loved the concept of multiverse instead of universe. It left me with so many what if's.
I love that fact Tessa and Brian's love comes across in every realm and possibility. It's just about time, fate and chance. Each Brian bring out the best in Tessa with her love, compassion, talent, loyality and passion.
There was so many different aspects of this story that I got lost into. It's a book that I find hard to review because you need to get lost in it yourself to really appreciate the beauty of this story.
I am torn between 3.5 and 4 thumbs up but because I still have tears in my eyes about this book I'm leaning more towards 4 ;)
Lauren
About the Author:
Traci L. Slatton
is a graduate of Yale and Columbia, where she taught freshman composition. She
lives in Manhattan, though her love for Renaissance Italy inspired her
historical novel Immortal [Bantam
Dell], which is currently in film pre-production and reached bestseller status
in Italy, Russia and Brazil. Also the author of The Botticelli Affair and the After
trilogy (Fallen, Cold Light and Far Shore [forthcoming late spring 2013]), Slatton has published The Art of Life, a photo essay about
figurative sculpture; a book of poetry; as well as a non-fiction title on
science and spirituality, Piercing Time
& Space. Her forthcoming novel, The
Mission, is a meaty historical saga set during World War II.
To learn more please visit, http://tracilslatton.com/
/ http://parvatipress.com/
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