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Suggestions for August 2013: Romance

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Is that one of the ones the rock star wrote - teen novels?
Landslide said:
That's the last book in a series, not exactly appropriate for a BOTM discussion, considering most participants have probably not read the previous 12 books...
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Is that one of the ones the rock star wrote - teen novels?
 
I don't read much romantic fiction and as a result really struggled to find something that a. fits the bill b. would be a good read c. has enough in it to generate some discussion

Finally came up with Splendour of Silence by Indu Sundaresan

When Sam Hawthorne, a twenty-five-year-old U.S. Army captain, arrives at the princely state of Rudrakot in May of 1942, it is on a personal quest to find his missing brother. But Sam's mission is soon threatened by the unlikeliest of sources -- he falls hopelessly in love with Mila, daughter of the local political agent. And Mila, unexpectedly attracted to Sam, finds herself torn between loyalty to her family and the man she loves.


A sweeping and poignant story of forbidden love, The Splendor of Silence opens twenty-one years later with Olivia, Sam's daughter, receiving a trunk of treasures from India, along with an anonymous letter that finally fills the silences of her childhood. She finally learns the heartrending story of her parents' passionate and enduring love affair -- throwing them in the path of racial prejudice, nationalist intrigue, and the explosive circumstances of a country on the brink of independence from British rule.
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http://www.amazon.com/The-Splendor-Silence-A-Novel/dp/0743283686
 
canuck said:
Is that one of the ones the rock star wrote - teen novels?
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Don't know which one you are refering to. This one is the last on the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. The one that inspired the tv series True Blood. It's not a teen series.
 
My suggestion: Atonement by Ian McEwan.

Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.

On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia’s childhood friend. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives—together with her precocious literary gifts—brings about a crime that will change all their lives. As it follows that crime’s repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.
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