Someone Else's Love Story

A Novel

By: Joshilyn Jackson

Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson

Someone Else's Love Story is beloved and highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson's funny, charming, and poignant novel about science and miracles, secrets and truths, faith and forgiveness; about falling in love, and learning that things aren't always what they seem—or what we hope they will be.

Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Nathan, aka Natty Bumppo, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced parents. She's got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up and falling in love with William Ashe, who willingly steps between the robber and her son.

Shandi doesn't know that her blond god Thor has his own complications. When he looked down the barrel of that gun he believed it was destiny: It's been one year to the day since a tragic act of physics shattered his world. But William doesn't define destiny the way others do. A brilliant geneticist who believes in facts and numbers, destiny to him is about choice. Now, he and Shandi are about to meet their so-called destinies head on, making choices that will reveal unexpected truths about love, life, and the world they think they know.

Love

I always love this lady’s stories. I also love her voice as she tells her stories.

Lovely

I really liked the characters in this book. Such difficult subjects handled with great care.

Captivating and addicting

This is my second book by this author, and now I’m on my third. Jackson’s stories are the best emotional rollercoaster you’ve ever ridden- and leaves you craving more and more.

Sweet Story

This was a sweet story with laugh-out-loud moments. I love Ms Jackson’s prose that is so uniquely southern. She does a great job narrating her own book—she knows it well and adds the right inflections and pauses and the like at just the right spots. Enjoyed every sentence! Found myself saying, wish I could write like that.”

The thing with feathers

This story is full of interesting characters finding their way and trying to hold onto hope. Joshilyn Jackson is skilled at plumbing the depths of relationships. She gives depth to each of her many characters and draws you right into their lives.
I genuinely liked Chandy. Some reviewers have been overly critical of her-I think they failed to take into account her youth. I felt empathy and could understand her actions in the context of her limited experience.
Bringing Paula Voss (protagonist from Opposite of Everyone) into this story was an interesting choice. Her backstory isn’t quite the same in both stories but she’s still the same badass character. My brain kept pinging on “shaggy black hair,” “copper colored skin,” “light upturned eyes.” Then it hit me-Paula!
Ms Jackson has a way of weaving religion, faith, mysticism and sticky subjects together that I find very intriguing.
I enjoyed the unexpected plot twist and found the ending satisfying. I wouldn’t mind discovering any of the characters in a future story.