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Synopsis

I had an affair. The most forbidden and seductive affair, and fell in Love.

He was a rare gentleman, intelligent and gorgeous; a man every woman desired. Every cell in my body was telling me that he was my happily ever after.

I was stuck in a marriage of mediocrity, I ached for red silk romance and carry me away passion, but not with my husband. I craved Him.

Living without him was cruel and unusual punishment, even for my wandering heart.

Affairytale is a tantalizing memoir of sultry encounters, hidden grottos and secret hillside cabins. From the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes to the Southern shores of Maui you’ll fall in love with this tell-all memoir that pulls back the veil on infidelity and gives you rare look into hearts and bedroom of a real life extramarital affair.

Woven with original love letters and scandalous text messages, this engrossing true love story is sure to break then win your heart.

True Love always finds a way.
Sometimes…it starts with an affair.

Review

C.J. has always known that Levi wasn’t the love of her life. But he was there, he was stable and he was what she has known since they first started dating as teenagers. But as life goes on and their relationship becomes bitter and angry deposits a child and a marriage C.J. begins to doubt it all. Especially when the handsome stranger Grant becomes not such a stranger anymore, showing up at family holidays and nights out, Grant soon becomes a friend, a good friend…and then someone C.J. wants more than friendship with, someone she can’t stop thinking about.

“Loneliness tucked me in with a thin red blanket and offered me its cold shoulder in the place where his should have been. Emotionally exhausted and on the brink of a meltdown, I was a felony disaster.”

This is a story for a reader who loves plots that contain affairs and forbidden romances that occur because the leads are in relationships. This was my first read of a book based around an affair and unfortunately, I discovered I don’t love this type of novel. However, I could not fault the writing or the emotions this story stirred up in me.

“Then I turned to him to say a final goodbye. With tears in my eyes I said, “I wish we could have been together in a different lifetime, I have a feeling we would have been really amazing. You are the most incredible man I’ve ever known and I meant everything I’ve said. Goodbye.”

What I loved; the writing was nearly faultless, it flowed throughout and the story was easy to follow. And I believe any sign of a good writer is one that can site up strong emotions and that was certainly the with this story; as it is a story about an affair it is no surprise that a strong emotion I felt was anger and sadness. I felt sad for everyone involved but also anger with Levi for being aggressive and C.J. for having the affair and being quite heartless. It was a long story, one where you could get emotionally invested with the characters and interested by the plot line.

“He was intoxicating, more than I’d imagined he would be, and in such a different way. My physical body was drunk on him of course, but the invisible union of our souls felt like destiny, like we’d been meant for each other since the beginning of time.”

Things I didn’t like; unfortunately I really didn’t like C.J, I thought although Levi was not a nice man, C.J. was heartless, cold and quite unfeeling over the whole thing. I got the impression Levi was the way he was because C.J. has treated him in quite a clinical and cold way throughout their relationship. And although I had no issues with Grant, he wasn’t such an amazing male lead where I would be able to justify C.J. having the affair. Although the plot was interesting, the affair plot to me was a bit too depressing and angry and I didn’t feel many other emotions such as happiness, or relief so for me it was a bit too intense with not much to break it up.

“It’s just always been you. I can’t resist you any longer, I’ve tried.”

I would definitely recommend this to those who love affair reads; it was really well written, had a developed plot which allowed you to get really invested and it will definitely stir up strong emotions!

~Bethany

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