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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Free on Kindle. Spoilers. OK, this was a bit odd. The main character is a member of a family where the women almost all get cancer and die young. She is going along, and she goes out with a guy who she feels superior to because he is a geek and then she dumps him...and then her Aunt calls & brings her to England to visit. There is lots of plot. The Aunt is a widow & her husband's relatives act very strangely. There is something about religion too. I need to look it up. Anyway, the Aunt gets sick & quickly dies, and it turns out that her husband was crazy & beat her & that the relatives are all a totally benign bunch. Mormons I guess. And the Aunt was very rich, so the heroine splits the money with her cousins & heads home rich & now aware that she loves the boy she dumped. So there is some back & forth & finally a happy ending. 'Paint Me True' is a novel about a twenty-nine year old woman who has dated a "Nerd" for six months. She had recently moved to Oregon and didn't know many people. She was a professional painter and was house- sitting for her new stepmother. She hadn't dated much and Len (the "nerd") was always nice to her. When he asked her out, she did not want to hurt his feelings and it was "just a date". She kept dating him because she was lonely and he always seemed eager to go out with her. Now, after six months,uncharacteristically, he prepared a special dinner date. She was going to have to hurt him by telling him "no" when he proposed. However, things didn't go as she planned. Seeing him at church each week was awkward. A few weeks after the "disaster date" she received a call for help from her Aunt Nora, in England. The females of her family suffered from the BRCA 1 mutation which caused cancer of which most had died from, early in life. Eliza had lost her mom and two sisters from it. Her and Aunt Nora were the only women in that side of her family who were free from the genetic curse. They were very close. Nora had two children but refused to talk about them. There was nobody but Eliza who could help. This also gave Eliza an escape from her precarious situation at church. She immediately booked a flight to England. When at the hospital, Eliza was escorted to her Aunt's room by tall, gorgeous man she discovers was the nurse, Colin,who was taking care of her aunt on the night shift. Within days Aunt Nora was released to Eliza's care, but not before Nora slipped the nurse a paper with Eliza's name and telephone number on it. They began dating, occasionally. While staying with her aunt, she does special paintings for her aunt and learns more about the uncle she never knew. Theirs seemed like a fairytale romance. She never knew he was so wealthy until after they had fallen in love. Now, Aunt Nora lived alone in this beautiful mansion. Mysteries began to unfold: accidents, questions concerning, her cousins, and other relatives. Amidst it all, Eliza, often reflected on her relationships, and the pros and cons between them. This is a romantic drama/mystery that will captivate the reader. The indecision is at times irritating but the action,and suspense makes up for it. This is a bittersweet story of love, relationships, choices, self-discovery, friendship and family loyalty. This story relates to L.D.S. Single Adults but is a great book for any adult or YA religious or not. This book was generously exchanged for an honest review of which I have given. If you are LDS (if you don't know what that is you aren't), or even if you are not, you will fnd Paint Me True a delghtful real life romance about an LDS woman who learns about true love only after faceing a major loss in her life. I found it to be a heartwarming read and recomend it to others with no hesitation. no reviews | add a review
Eliza Dunmar is about to turn thirty-one and fears her best days are behind her. Soon she'll be too old to attend church in a singles ward, her career as a painter is no longer considered cool, and she feels too old to use the excuse that she's "just starting out" to explain why she still can't pay the bills. The only man interested in her is a scruffy, video game addicted nerd who is the first to admit that they are all wrong for each other. When her beloved Aunt Nora calls from England and begs her to visit, Eliza leaps at the chance. Even better? Nora had the perfect romance with her late husband and is eager to share the tale. As Eliza sets out to immortalize this courtship in a series of paintings, she learns a lesson that will change her outlook on life and love forevermore. No library descriptions found. |
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