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Vi Carious’s review of A Facebook Affair by Tara Chevrestt

Facebook Affair
By Tara Chevrestt

When Kelly and Brandon rediscover each other on Facebook after twenty years apart, it sparks an attraction that even distance can’t extinguish. Do they truly have a future, or is this just a Facebook affair?
Kelly Littleton takes the plunge and finally joins Facebook to socialize without the limits that her hearing impairment gives her. On a whim, she looks up a childhood friend. In sending him that first message, she ignites the memories of a crush from twenty years ago. But will they turn into the flames of romance, or end up the ashes of a Facebook affair?
Brandon Hopkins has a lot on his plate. A recent divorce, a pregnant sister, and now, he realizes he’s in love with a woman who lives states away. Can he overcome the boundaries of internet romance to make this desire turn into something real, or will adversity and distance be their undoing?
                             
Vi Carious’ Thoughts:
Have you ever thought of looking up your first love on Facebook? Do you wonder what would happen? 
Kelly was always the one in school everyone made fun of. She needed hearing aids and talked funny because of her lack of hearing. In second grade she has to go to a new school in Oklahoma and becomes the target of ridicule from most of her classmates. Everyone except Brandon. Now 20 years later she decides to look up Brandon on Facebook.
Brandon is going through a divorce and is being the “man of the house” for her sister while her husband is deployed. Life is not what he wanted it to be, then suddenly a message comes from Kelly through Facebook and they begin to talk…
Can you really turn back the hands of time?
Each chapter begins with a memory of school days for Kelly and some of them are heartbreaking. It makes you wonder where the teacher was while this child is bullied and abused. The “mean girls” (one being Brandon’s sister Lindsey) are just that and more. Everything you have ever heard of happening in school is addressed in this story (from being picked last to being shoved into lockers, etc). The writing of the facebook messages are a little corny and not really sure that most people would have conversations in the way this was written but maybe that is just me. It just seems too “high school” for characters who are now 28 (I mean does a 28 year old say ‘rents for parents?) and my goodness the use of LOL is beyond normal speech. The ending of this book is a little corny too but a “feel good ending” all the same.
This is a e-book that sells for around $4. Go ahead pick it up. Have it ready for when you need a quick read. It may not end up being on your favorites list but what it will do is make you wonder WHO SHOULD YOU LOOK UP ON FACEBOOK?
NOTE: The reader needs to remember also that this was written some time before Facebook made more of it’s many changes. It uses icons, boxes, etc that are no longer being used on Facebook.

One Response to Vi Carious’s review of A Facebook Affair by Tara Chevrestt

  1. _yay_ March 11, 2012 at 4:25 am #

    I'm so in need for a feel-good read. Great rec. Will look it up asap.

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