“As Life Goes: The End of the Innocence”, the second book of in the “As Life Goes” series released today, Friday November 27, 2015
As part of the release event, there is a Kindle FREE e-book promotion for the first book of the series “As Life Goes: Elementary” which is ongoing until December 1, 2015
SYNOPSIS and the top review for “As Life Goes: Elementary”
As Life Goes: Elementary (BOOK ONE of the “As Life Goes” series) – Links to Excerpts
As Life Goes: Elementary – Excerpt I
http://bit.ly/1RmOdc6
As Life Goes: Elementary – Excerpt II
http://bit.ly/1NSaAAg
As Life Goes: Elementary – Excerpt III
http://bit.ly/1kKfxm6
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5.0 out of 5 stars Touching and very relevant
By TFLReader TOP 500 REVIEWER on October 3, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase
Today’s society is filled with broken homes and transient kids. While divorce was just starting to become more acceptable as I was growing up, it is now the norm and author Jason Zandri has written a very poignant tale of one family’s experience in “As Life Goes: Elementary”. The story of Mark and his son Matthew, who return to Mark’s childhood hometown to start over after a divorce. The struggles of starting a new school and meeting new people are illustrated as are the pains of loss. This is a great story that I became quickly invested in and that I found very easy to relate to. Definitely recommend.
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“Every new beginning starts from nothing. Understanding that you can have everything in the love of one person, isn’t that worth the risk of personal capital? Isn’t that kind of love worth it?” – Diane Wakeford
“Have I ever told you, you’re the nicest boy I’ve ever met?” – Melissa Bancroft
“I will have the friends I want. I don’t care what boy likes me or what boy I like. You’re an awesome friend. I am not giving you up because we’re going to different schools or for any one person either.” – Elizabeth Wellsworth
Mark Sanford returns to his hometown with his son Matthew in tow to rebuild their lives. Recently divorced, and with the mother totally abandoning her parental responsibilities, both father and son are beginning their fresh start together.
Matthew begins to make new friends in the neighborhood and at school while he tries to find his place among people that have been friends with one another for years at elementary school.
Mark takes over the reins of the former family corner store with the help of a young woman looking for work. The ability to love and trust that woman entering his life is difficult for him because of all he has lost. For Matthew, that “first love” is difficult to understand without a motherly influence and with a father that has been deeply hurt.
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—- As Life Goes: The End of the Innocence —- ON SALE NOW —-
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B017TBSD42 —-
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SYNOPSIS for “As Life Goes: The End of the Innocence”
—- SEQUEL TO “As Life Goes: Elementary” http://www.amazon.com/Life-Goes-Elementary-Jason-Zandri-ebook/dp/B00ZXVB7SK/ —-
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—- BOOK TWO OF THE “AS LIFE GOES” SERIES —-
As Life Goes: The End of the Innocence – Excerpt I
http://bit.ly/1knbsVe
As Life Goes: The End of the Innocence – Excerpt II
http://bit.ly/1MycCaG
As Life Goes: The End of the Innocence – Excerpt III
http://bit.ly/1M4duT0
As Life Goes: Elementary (BOOK ONE) – Links to Excerpts
As Life Goes: Elementary – Excerpt I
http://bit.ly/1RmOdc6
As Life Goes: Elementary – Excerpt II
http://bit.ly/1NSaAAg
As Life Goes: Elementary – Excerpt III
http://bit.ly/1kKfxm6
“You have to let things happen and be there for the ones you care about. When they slip, you try to catch them to break their fall. You can’t always be there for everyone; when you’re not and if they should fall, you help them back up.” – Matthew Sanford.
“Now and for the rest of my life, I want to spend the time trying to make you as happy as you’ve made me.”
“There’s no way to know all things with absolute certainty. If you want to love that much, if you want the chance to be Matthew’s entire world, and have him be yours, you’re going to have to risk everything.” – Diane Wakeford.
The one constant in the universe is change.
Matthew, Tim, Melissa, Liz and the gang come to the end of their youth as they turn eighteen and prepare to leave high school.
Old friends and new come together as their lives shift from the moment they are in to the future that is coming at them.
One love is discovered and then lost. Another is never fully revealed. Others are put forward to stand against the tests of life, time, and circumstance.
At a time of letting go, they do their best to hang on, realizing that yesterday is gone and what they have to look forward to is everything that tomorrow offers.
The GUNDERSTONE review 