"If you are a fan of Ms. Quinn's fiction then you should not miss her own true love story."
Reviewed by Sandi Shilhanek
Posted July 14, 2011
Romance
Tara Taylor Quinn is a prolific author of fiction, but with
the writing of IT HAPPENED ON MAPLE STREET she has tipped
her writing pen into the well of NON-fiction.
IT HAPPENED ON MAPLE STREET is a story of first love gone
awry for a variety of reasons. I believe many of us will
find ourselves feeling for Tim and Tara and the
miscommunications that were a factor in causing the two to
break up. What comes through the pages is that even though Tim and
Tara spent many years apart their brains and their hearts
never truly forgot one another, and when an opportunity
presented itself for them to reconnect they seized it.
Not with the intention of becoming a couple, but with the
intent of being able to renew a friendship and enjoying the
benefits of having a close friend. That the relationship
blossomed into what it now was not an unwelcome event,
but one that was embraced with new understandings: about
communication, that they were not the same people, and that
they must move forward as they are now not focus on shared
memories. This review is a bit hard to write because I worry
about spoilers, but having heard Ms. Quinn speak of her love
story. I don't feel I have given away things that she
herself hasn't said to many of her fans. Having met Ms. Quinn on numerous
occasions and heard her inspirational story, I was quite
excited to read IT HAPPENED ON MAPLE STREET and get Tim's
side...I was not disappointed. If you are a fan of Ms.
Quinn's fiction then you should not miss her own true love
story..IT HAPPENED ON MAPLE STREET.
SUMMARY
Tara Taylor Quinn dares to novelize her own true love
story,
in her groundbreaking novel filled with heartbreaking
truths. It Happened on Maple Street sends a soaring
message
of hope that the redeeming power of love and refusing to bow
to tragedy or time, can truly conquer all. The quintessential good girl with her nose in a book, Tara
lived in a sleepy Ohio town. She'd never been kissed when
she began college, but that soon changed when she met hunky
tennis ace Tim Barney in a Geology class. Tara fell so hard
and fast she didn't need a rock on her finger to make the
ultimate commitment. But Tim wasn't ready to commit and Tara
walked away, knowing she could never recover from the
irreparable hurt he was capable of wielding with a wave of
his hand. It was another man's hand who shattered her trust and took
her innocence on one fateful night. And yet another man she
laid cold beside in a loveless marriage-of-convenience bed.
Yes, bad things happened after Tara broke up with Tim at
his parent's house on Maple Street. Very bad things that
she hid within the open pages of the romance novels she
would become famous for writing. These were stories of love
overcoming seemingly unbeatable odds and yet Tara Taylor
Quinn couldn't hold her own sad marriage together. But when an email message suddenly upends her world, the
past is brought into shocking focus. The message is from Tim
Barney. Does she remember him—the guy from college whose
heart she broke? He's never forgotten her. Plunged into a plot twist beyond her own imaginings, Tara
has to discover if love can be as real as the kind she
writes about. Is it possible that after years of emotional
isolation, she may finally embrace a happily-ever-after of
her own?
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