What if you could find the love of your life just by reading between the lines?Single mom Fordham Price is juggling her job at a small publisher, her precocious ten-year-old daughter, and her feisty mother. She wants to find time for men, but after a series of dating disasters, her relationship status is still stuck at single.As if her macchiato lite wasn’t already overflowing, a co-worker gets … overflowing, a co-worker gets pregnant, and Fordham is expected to step in and deliver the company’s latest reality read from the Flowers from the Heart series. She must now supplement her own romantic misadventures with tales of cynical cat-ladies, identical-twin husbands, spunky monks, and countless other web-crawlers.
As she wades through the submissions, she finds one from a widower whose story gives her tingles in all the places she forgot existed. His words draw her in until she finds herself daydreaming about him more than she’d care to admit.
Could she have a love like that, or will her romantic fate be forever bound to her philandering ex-husband?
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Fordham works for a publishing company and where she has been for a long time. She is a single mum with ten-year-old daughter Whitty. Fordham’s mother also lives with them. David is the principal of Whitty’s school. This story is absolutely wonderful and if I could give it ten stars I would. Highly recommended.
I’m a life-long New Yorker, so this book really spoke to me on both an intellectual level and emotionally. Having had an intense but failed marriage also drew me to Fordham, as a wife and mother. However, I really had a hard time connecting with Fordham for the first half of the book. She seemed whiny, miserable and self-centered. I wanted her to get her HEA, but a part of me felt like she did everything possible to foil her own happiness. I enjoyed her best friend, the one who gets pregnant and basically dumps everything in Fordham’s lap, leaving her with the new reality book series and all the craziness that ensued. i received a copy of this book thru Book Sirens, and the review is all my own!
This was cute clean read. Fordham was funny, witty and a great character with a lot of depth. Who knew she would find her Prince Charming while working, editing her first book. Though it wasn’t an easy road, and a lot of things had to happen Fordham got her happily ever after.
Finding love again in your 30+ years isn’t easy. But your not alone. Great story of learning you don’t have to just settle for a close fit. Funny and whitty dialogue with a precocious 10 year old and no punches held comments from mom!
This is a rom com with a realistic view of life. At the beginning, I had a difficulty getting into the story, and connecting with the main character, Fordham. Since it is told from her point of view, that was a problem at first, but the more I read, the more I got into the story, and before I knew it, I was hooked. Then, it became a book that I wanted to just keep reading. It was a little slow at times, I do have to admit, but overall, I really enjoyed it. The more I read, the number of stars kept increasing. I like books that make me laugh, without being silly all the way through, and this book fits that perfectly. With that, I do recommend this book.
Fordham’s current life is not what she dreamed. Almost forty, divorced, with a ten year old daughter and her widowed mother living in her house. She had dated several men bitmap no one seem shy to really touch her heart. Until a love and live story I see submitted for a book she is editing. CAn Fordham really try to find happiness and love again? Great story
I received a free electronic copy of this novel from BookSIRENS, Sheri Langer, and Red Adept Publishing. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me. I have read this novel of my own volition, and this review reflects my honest opinion of this work. Sheri Langer writes a briskly paced romantic comedy that is an excellent change of pace from reality. I chuckled over much of the shenanigans as the plot accelerated into a perhaps happy ending?
Love in the rear-view mirror isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sometimes kids see with perfect-vision what we adults lose sight of in the muddle of daily life. This was an interesting tale peopled with folks you feel like you know well.
Sheri Langer, ‘Love-LINES’, a novel.
As a Hidden Gems ARC reader I received this book for free. And promised an honest review. Here it is. English isn’t my first language. Sorry for errors.
Rating: 2 stars (of 5).
In general: Choosing between two admirers.
Main characters:
– Fordham Price.
Working at a book publishing company. Divorced from cheating ex husband Gil. She had a slightly handicapped, but very funny and intelligent daughter, Whitty (10). Her mother, Dorie, appeared unexpectedly to be pennyless when – a few years ago – her beloved, but gamble addicted husband, Arnie, died. Now her mom had to live in ‘Fordie’s’ house. Fortunately she can care for Whitty while Fordham is at work.
– Aaron Karp.
Fordham’s gorgeous boyfriend during college. She was deeply in love with him, but he broke up with her to study in Spain. Now a wealthy gynecologist.
– David Prince.
New director of Whitty’s elementary school. A single dad with daughter Lily. Some years ago his wife died of cancer.
Fordham and David liked each other from the first moment they met. (Whitty and Lily are friends). But Fordham thinks that David has a love affair with his colleague Pam, so she limits herself only (with difficulty) to lightly flirting with him.
Then Aaron arrives in town for bussiness. After years he meets ‘Fordie’ again. And more or less her old crush returns. So she has to choose between Aaron or David.
The author, Sheri Langer, describes this process. It results in a – technically – well written book with often funny dialogues and a nicely thought out title.
But for me the story was too slow: many flashbacks of examples of things the reader already knows and I could foresee the end of the story after reading about 50% of the book. Some characters (Margo) who hardly were necessary for the story. Yet she got a lot of pages. Endless actions in which David was emphatic, caring for Fordham and loving Whitty, while Aaron was egoistic, liking his phone more than Fordham, sometimes having hardly time for courting her in person and only tolerating Whitty.
In spite of all those scenes Fordham almost thinks that she wants to marry Aaron when he proposes. And one incident and (again) a flashback brings her to another opinion. For me not very credible; so sorry, but I cannot give this book a high rating.
R. Huiszoon.
After a certain age, can you find love?
Love-Lines by Sheri Langer is a story about second chances or third chances at finding love. No matter what age you are. The main character, Fordham Price a woman in her forties, who is trying to make life work after a divorce, raising her ten-year-old daughter, working a full-time job, and trying to date.
Fordham Price
She is our main character and the one that we follow throughout the book. Fordham is trying to be a good mom to her ten-year-old daughter, Whitney, but sometimes she has to work long hours so that she can afford the stuff that her daughter wants. This is always a hard thing, and Fordham is torn down the middle. She is trying to date, as well. For Fordham, that isn’t easy at all.
What I like about Fordham is that she is a good mom and anyone can see that as she tries to put her daughter first. That isn’t easy for her since putting money into the bank is also very important since her ex-husband isn’t helping her at all. She is taking everything in strides, and then her boss throws her this new opportunity of being an editor.
The loves
Fordham’s love life is very complicated.
Her first love throughout high school was Aaron. He was her first love and good for her back when she was a teen, but it isn’t right now. He wasn’t hers to have once he went away.
Fordham had a college boyfriend, Joe. They were casually dating until she meant her ex-husband.
Gil was right for her until he wasn’t. She is still dealing with that break up a bit throughout the book until she figured out that she is “worth it” without him. Fordham needed to get her confidence back.
Then there is her “Prince Charming” that she hasn’t met but fell head or heels for him.
Four stars
Love-Lines by Sheri Langer is my first book by this author. I was a bit worried when it was pretty slow at the beginning of the story, but it did pick up. Other than that it was a great book that I am giving it a four-star rating. I am recommending it to all Romance readers out there.
Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of Love-Lines by Sheri Langer.
Until the next time,
Karen the Baroness
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Fordham Price is just trying to juggle home, family, and a job while serial dating to hopefully find a companion so she doesn’t end up alone. Or at least find someone worthy enough to scratch the sex itch. But she’s not having any luck. Her life gets even more complicated when a co-worker ups and leaves and her boss drops the book she was working on into Fordham’s lap. After whining for quite some time, so pulls up her big girl panties and digs in.
It’s not often I pick up a book by Red Adept Publishing and end up not liking it. The blurb for this one sounded pretty good, so I dug in. And found I didn’t care for Fordham. At all. Man, what a whiner. When her old flame blows into town and picks up with her like the years in-between never existed, I did not like or trust him. But Fordham ate him up like he was the biggest, juiciest, chocolate-covered strawberries from Shari’s Berries.
I love Whitty, Fordham’s 10-yr-old daughter and her mom (who lives with them), but Fordham just got on my nerves too much to enjoy the book. The writing itself is great though and maybe I’m being too picky. I’m sure there are others out there who would sympathize and connect with Fordham, but unfortunately I’m not one of them.
I will admit, when I read the blurb for Love-Lines, I wasn’t that impressed with it. I thought that this book was going to be one of those silly rom-com type of romances. I thought that I was going to read a book that had little substance. Don’t get me wrong, I like those types of books. But I also like books with a little more meat. So, I was surprised when I started reading Love-Lines and it wasn’t all fluff. There was meat to it!!
I wasn’t expecting to connect with Fordham the way I did. I didn’t know what I was expecting with Fordham’s character. Having her as a frazzled working mother who’s experiences in dating was normal made me love her. She was realistic. She was snarky. I loved her!!
While Fordham was great, it was the secondary characters that made this book sing. Whitty, her 10-year-old, was the epitome of every 10-year old that I have met. Her mother was sweet and sassy. Plus she was supportive of Fordham. I will admit that I didn’t like Aaron. I loved David. There were so many other gems in this book, it was hard to keep track of them.
I liked the main storylines of Love-Lines. The author did a fantastic job of keeping them separate until the middle of the book. Then she was able to merge them. I loved it. I do wish that I got more insight into what an editor does. I got a good feel for it here but I do wish a little more depth was given. I also felt that the way Fordham got the job was not that great.
What I enjoyed the most about this book was that it made me laugh. I had several laugh out loud moments while reading. Mainly centered around Fordham’s dating life. Her date with the much younger man cracked me up. As did her observances afterward.
I liked the romances that Fordham found herself in. I will admit, I didn’t like Aaron. He came across as too smarmy. Plus, the way he treated Whitty wasn’t right. David was perfect. Of course, there were some misconceptions that lasted until the end of the book. Even then, he was awesome about clearing them up!!
Speaking about the end of the book, I loved it!! I had a huge grin after reading it. Let’s say that things ended perfectly for Fordham!!