Torn apart by Life…Can Destiny bring them back together?From multi-award winning author, Eichin Chang-Lim, comes a heartbreaking and inspiring love story that will grip you from beginning to end. 2018 Readers’ Favorite, Honorable Mention – Young Adult Romance“Beautifully written, captivating and compelling…”“This is a beautiful story, at times aching, and filled with compassion and pathos.” ~ … beautiful story, at times aching, and filled with compassion and pathos.” ~ Readers’ Favorite
Life changes on a dime. Few understand this painful truth quite like Violet and Dylan, former college sweethearts united by their troubled childhoods.
When a gut-wrenching tragedy strikes in their adult years, they’re torn apart—their relationship unable to survive the blow. Though they go their separate ways, they remain connected by a meaningful token: a locket, which Dylan bestows upon Violet on a blissful day by a gorgeous beach in Coronado, California—to which he holds the key.
This lovelock remains to be their only connection as they struggle to rebuild their lives. Violet, an aspiring actress, grapples with mental illness and ends up stripping for a living. In the meantime, Dylan faces his own challenges while trying to manage his past trauma with an unknown future. They each venture down their own dark path laced with drugs and manipulative, taxing characters. All the while, neither can shake off their longing for the love they once shared and endeared.
In spite of life’s impediments, can they heal their past and find happiness alone, or together?
Other Books by Eichin Chang-Lim:
Flipping
A Mother’s Love
Love, A Tangled Knot
Visit the author’s website:
www.eichinchanglim.commore
This book was entered in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards. This is what our readers thought:
Title: The LoveLock
Author: Eichin Chang-Lim
Star Rating: 5 Stars
Number of Readers: 15
Stats
Editing: 9/10
Writing Style: 9/10
Content: 10/10
Cover: 8/10
Of the 15 readers:
13 would read another book by this author.
13 thought the cover was good or excellent.
15 felt it was easy to follow.
14 would recommend this story to another reader to try.
Of all the readers, 4 felt the author’s strongest skill was ‘plotting a story’.
Of all the readers, 11 felt the author’s strongest skill was ‘developing the characters’.
14 felt the pacing was good or excellent.
13 thought the author understood the readership and what they wanted.
Readers’ Comments
‘I liked this story. Yes, it was sort of sad and a lot of horrible things happened to the two characters, but it was well-told and always interesting. Liked the premise of the locket and how it bonds the two together.’ Female reader, aged 16
‘This is a romance but only just. It looks at how so many things can keep two people apart and whether they can find a way through. The writing style is excellent and the characters develop so well during the book. I didn’t love the cover, but I loved the story.’ Female reader, aged 15
‘Lots of plot twists, and tons and tons of problems/dilemmas for the two characters to overcome. Will they/won’t they find each other? Is it destiny? The locket was a super-clever touch that was cleverly thought-out by the author. The pacing is good and the ending is delicious!’ Female reader, aged 17
To Sum It Up:
‘A dark, richly-told story filled with memorable characters. A FINALIST and highly recommended.’ The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
“The LoveLock” is a story of Dylan and Violet’s love and separation. They met in a hospital as children, but don’t reconnect again until college. The couple decides to get married, but that doesn’t happen for reasons unknown. Next, Violet is living in LA and struggles to survive. I could feel her anguish when she had to decide how to make money to pay her rent. How she self-medicated and numbly went through the motions was realistic. Then the POV switches to Dylan, who comes back for her, only to be stopped. I was rooting for them as obstacle after obstacle got in the way, including themselves. I loved both of their journeys, although some heavy subjects were dealt with along the way. The truth shocked me when it was revealed why they didn’t get married. I was all in with this story and read it in two sittings, although I tried to do it in one. If you love drama, self-reflection, and tragedy in a love story, this is for you. I highly recommend it.
Ok, talk about intense. This was an interesting New Adult book. It is the life of Violet and Dylan . This is at times a love story, a tragedy, a coming-of-age, and a contemporary tale. I look at is as a modern day Romeo and Juliet”esque” type of tragic love story. Although, in good conscience I wouldn’t really call it a “love story”. The author deals with some very prevalent issues of our times; drug addiction, dependency, depression, suicide, illness, murder, death, etc. The story is told in the third person from both main characters points of view. It flows well and is engrossing. I liked it quite a bit; so maybe it should be 4 1/2 stars.
Wow! Awesome story!
I’ve had this book on my TBR list for a while and somehow other books just kept getting pushed before it, and now that I’ve finally read it I couldn’t help thinking “I could have read this awesome book months ago!!”
It’s the first book I’ve read by this author but I’m definitely looking forward to her other books now!
It was a gripping story anyway but by the last quarter of it, I simply couldn’t put it down! There were shocking surprises that I didn’t see coming, and I love an unpredictable story!
It was simply marvelous all the way around! You’ll experience a gamut of emotions throughout the book and won’t be able to make yourself stop reading it! Well done!