Another 5 star review from Midwest Book Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars A read that shouldn’t be overlooked, January 7, 2011
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This review is from: Soul Mate (Paperback)
The student teacher relation is often romanticized but at the same time taboo. “Soul Mate” tells the story of Lance and Claudia, a student and teacher who go down the road of this forbidden relationship. Facing the world that shuns them, their romance comes along against it all with an assortment of unique and entertaining characters, “Soul Mate” is a read that shouldn’t be overlooked.
Great review by RebeccasReads: “…a great book, a captivating read and well worth the five-stars I’m giving it…”
Reviewed by Charline Ratcliff for RebeccasReads (11/10)
About a week ago I was asked if I would be interested in reading the book “Soul Mate” by author Ronald Lewis Weaver. With a title like “Soul Mate” how could I even think about refusing? It’s amazing what thoughts those two little words can stir up and I knew I would accept the review request without doing my customary research. After all, when it comes to love isn’t each one of us searching for “happily ever after?” Doesn’t each one of us want that elusive “soul mate?” That one person who understands us better than anyone else? That one person who “gets” us? That one person who honestly thinks our morning crankiness and idiosyncrasies are cute? Of course that same person would still manage to laugh at our lame little jokes even though we’ve told them a million times…
So, my copy of “Soul Mate” arrived and I flipped it over to read the back cover. “TEACHER + STUDENT = DISASTER. OR DOES IT?” jumped off the page at me. Hmmm… That warm fuzzy feeling I’d had when I originally agreed to read this title was quickly dissipating. It was now being replaced with television images of attractive young women wearing orange as they are led out of court under police escort…
I put those images aside and continued reading the jacket. Claudia de la Rosa, our soon to be infamous school teacher, arrives in Beverly Hills, California with stars in her eyes. She’s the high school’s new English teacher and (surprise!) this is where she meets Lance, our eighteen year old student. I expelled my breath in a huge sigh of relief. At least age-wise he was legal… At this point I tried to coerce my warm fuzzy feeling into returning but apparently it had already left the building…
A couple hours later I sat down with “Soul Mate” and was pleasantly surprised. Weaver has a fantastic writing style and his words have the ability to transport you into this fictional world he has created. Great character development, and even though the love affair Claudia and Lance share doesn’t conform to today’s social standards there’s definitely nothing tawdry about it. In fact, halfway through the book, I actually found myself wanting them to be able to share their future with each other. Having finished “Soul Mate” I can definitely see why Weaver is the Senior Producer for television’s most-watched daily drama “The Bold And The Beautiful.”
In summary, “Soul Mate” is a great book, a captivating read and well worth the five-stars I’m giving it…
Launch party photo gallery on CBS.com
CBS.com captured the stars who attended the Soul Mate launch party
Lesley-Anne Down, Ronn Moss, Lesli Kay, Joseph Mascolo, John McCook, Brandon Beemer, Sarah Joy Brown, Texas Battle, Scott Clifton, Kate Linder, Zack Conroy, Adrienne Frantz, Kim Matula, Jennifer Gareis, Adam Gregory.
Barnes & Noble at The Grove, September 16, 2010.
Fans: more pix and video coming soon!
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Book Launch event
Lesley-Anne Down
Experience it yourself at the exclusive Book Launch on September 16, 7pm. Featuring readings by Lesley-Anne Down, Lesli Kay, Joseph Mascolo and Ronn Moss, visits from many other stars, and a signing by the author. At Barnes & Noble at The Grove, 189 Grove Drive, Los Angeles 90036. Consider yourself invited!
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Teacher + Student = Disaster. Or does it?
Claudia de la Rosa, is a starry-eyed innocent with book-learned wisdom who has just arrived in the glamour-charged world of Beverly Hills to become the high school English teacher of Lance Van Arden.
At first, neither Lance nor Claudia understand that the odd connection they both feel in the presence of each other is anything more than Claudia’s respect for Lance’s emerging talent as a writer and Lance’s need for a mentor. Both resist the mutual attraction because they share the conventional wisdom that anything more would be wrong. But destiny collides with established rules as mutual dreams and twists of fate propel them together.
Lance and Claudia’s steamy and blissful private world collides with social norms and stirs up parental suspicion. Because of their courage and an absolute certainty that they are soul mates having some greater purpose as yet undiscovered, they become modern-day folk heroes when that remarkable purpose is revealed and their tale becomes public knowledge.
Their perilous adventure is nudged along by Marco Cerasuolo, a flamboyant, sophomore with prodigious psychic powers whose spirit guides, Daniel and The Bear, offer hints and cryptic riddles.
Ronald Lewis Weaver, senior producer of The Bold and the Beautiful, has written an unforgettable story of a seemingly impossible love. See what cast members including Betty White, Ronn Moss and Katherine Kelly Lang had to say about the book.
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