About the book:
From her cheating boyfriend to her dead father and cold, judgmental mother, Daly knows she can't trust others to be there when it counts. This cynicism begins to melt away when she meets Kashi, a light-hearted charmer from India, who decides he cares too much to let her fade into the background of her own life. After a series of false starts, their quirky romance carries them to India, where Daly must win the approval of Kashi's family in order to seal their "forever."
Meanwhile, Laine struggles to cope with the pain of early widowhood, fleeing into the pages of her well-worn library and emerging only to perform her duties as a social worker at the crisis pregnancy center. Although her daughter wants nothing more than to work as an artist, Laine doesn't know how to redirect Daly to a more suitable profession without further damaging their tenuous relationship.Can Laine look past her pain to learn from an unlikely mentor? Has Daly finally found someone whom she can trust? Will the women recognize their common bonds before the relationship is broken beyond repair?
Torn Together, Emlyn Chand's first sojourn into Literary/Women's Fiction, illustrates how our similarities often drive us apart.
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My thoughts:
When this tour came about, I couldn't help but want to review this book. I was lucky enough to be able to purchase a signed copy from the author when ordering other copies of her books. I love the author's writing style in this book. The characters were really well portrayed throughout this story of how to deal with grief. The trials and tribulations that each character goes through is monumental, but the author manages to keep the story line from becoming to heavy to enjoy. I loved all of the details about the trip to India, as foreign travel consumes my heart :) The ending was something that I did not see coming, but I'm glad that some of the issues between characters were resolved. I can't wait to read more from the author :)
About the author: Emlyn Chand emerged from the womb with a fountain pen clutched in her left hand (true story). When she's not writing, she runs a large book club in Ann Arbor and is the president of author PR firm Novel Publicity. Best known for her Young Adult novels, she is also developing a small, but devoted, following to her children's book series and is beginning to dabble in other genres as well. Emlyn enjoys connecting with readers and is available via almost every social media site in existence. Visit EmlynChand.com for more info. Don't forget to say "hi" to her sun conure Ducky! Connect with Emlyn on her website, Facebook, GoodReads, or Twitter.
About the prizes: Who doesn't love prizes? You could win one of two $50 Amazon gift cards or an autographed copy of Torn Together! Here's what you need to do...
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Tour Schedule:
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| Monday | 31-Dec | The Cover (And Everything in Between) |
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| Tuesday |
1-Jan
| News for Shoppers |
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| Wednesday | 2-Jan | My Escape Book Blog |
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| Thursday |
3-Jan
| Tread Softly |
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| Friday | 4-Jan | Angela Scott's Blog |
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| 4-Jan | My Life with Boys and Books |
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| Saturday |
5-Jan
| Unicorn Reviews |
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| Sunday |
6-Jan
| My Name is Anne |
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| Monday | 7-Jan |
A Daydreamer's Thoughts
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| Tuesday | 8-Jan | The Musings of a New Englander |
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| Wednesday | 9-Jan |
Speaking of Books
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| Wednesday | 9-Jan |
Tracy Riva's Blog
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| Thursday | 10-Jan | The Great Perhapsless |
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| Friday | 11-Jan | Chick Lit Plus |
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| Saturday | 12-Jan | Axel Howerton's Blog |
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| Sunday | 13-Jan | The Unconventional Librarian |
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| Monday | 14-Jan | Butterfly on a Broomstick |
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| Tuesday | 15-Jan |
Naimeless
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Lissette E. Manning's Blog
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| Thursday | 17-Jan | Paranormal Book Club |
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| Saturday | 18-Jan | Something Written. Something Read. |
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| Sunday | 19-Jan | The Muse Unleashed |
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| Monday | 20-Jan | Bless Their Hearts - Mom |
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| Tuesday | 21-Jan | The Silver Sphere |
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| Tuesday | 21-Jan |
Books in the Burbs
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Lakefront Muse
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| Thursday | 23-Jan | The Art & Craft of Writing Creatively |
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| Friday | 24-Jan |
Reflections from a Cloudy Mirror
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| Saturday | 25-Jan |
A Day in Doha
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| Saturday | 25-Jan | Christie Palmer's Blog |
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Thank you for the wonderful review, Brittany. I'm glad you liked Torn Together, and I'm hoping you'll enjoy Farsighted and Open Heart even more! Interesting factoid: Kashi is based on my ex-husband, but Dax (in the Farsighted series) was written as my dream man and has an uncanny number of similarities to my new soul mate husband. It's actually really spooky. I plan to blog about it soon....
ReplyDeleteAnyway, thank you for joining us on this tour, and if you could take a moment to cross-post your lovely review to Amazon and GoodReads, I'd really appreciate it.
Happy New Year!
Em :-D
Glad you liked the book. I can't wait to read it, myself!
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