The Book
Release Date: 24 June 2013
One kind deed can change your life forever...
Brynn Tomlin could never afford to follow her heart. But when she sees a stranger shivering in the snow outside of the college library, an inexplicable urge leads her to buy him a hot cup of coffee. It's just a small act of kindness, a few words of conversation. Brynn should be focusing on her finals, after all, not on the man who looked up at her gratefully with piercing blue eyes.
He could have been anyone - a janitor on break, a graduate student, a bum. But the man standing outside in the cold turns out to be Dr. Eliot Herceg, one of the most brilliant minds in mathematics and heir to a fortune. After years of reclusive isolation, he now finds his heart awakening to the kind girl whose name he does not know.
Brynn has spent her life trying to forget her desires, and Eliot's deep wounds have taken nearly a decade to heal. After so much hurt, will either of them be able to open their hearts again?
Brynn Tomlin could never afford to follow her heart. But when she sees a stranger shivering in the snow outside of the college library, an inexplicable urge leads her to buy him a hot cup of coffee. It's just a small act of kindness, a few words of conversation. Brynn should be focusing on her finals, after all, not on the man who looked up at her gratefully with piercing blue eyes.
He could have been anyone - a janitor on break, a graduate student, a bum. But the man standing outside in the cold turns out to be Dr. Eliot Herceg, one of the most brilliant minds in mathematics and heir to a fortune. After years of reclusive isolation, he now finds his heart awakening to the kind girl whose name he does not know.
Brynn has spent her life trying to forget her desires, and Eliot's deep wounds have taken nearly a decade to heal. After so much hurt, will either of them be able to open their hearts again?
My Review 4 STARS
*May contain spoilers*
This is a modern retelling of the Cinderella story. The mother has died, the father has remarried, but lived with the stepmother and step sisters as has basically given up his daughter to the grandmother. Along comes a tortured youngish man and together they see in each other something special.
Bynn is studying maths at college and lives with her elderly Hungarian grandmother, who cane to California to look after her when the father and step father became too much for Brynn and did not cherish or love the fact that she was a little different and liked maths and not pretty things.
Eliot Herceg fled Hungary ten years ago and is a brilliant Mathamatician, but has lost his way a little. It is a chance meeting with Bryan outside a coffee shop that changes both of their lives for the better.
Both are tortured souls, Brynn's mother was killed in Hungary12 years ago and Eliot lost his wife 10 years ago. Both still very much have their issues of trust and closeness, but with each other seem to suddenly find something that they were looking for.
When the both end up in Hungary for the year, Brynn ends up even closer to Eliot, but a close encounter has Brynn terrified and Eliot showing that her can be a protector and the pair finally cement their relationship.
This book has some good writing and often reads as if their are diary entries from Brynn looking back at the time the story is taking place with retrospective comments. There is also a lot of math talk, which i understand is part of the story, however, not being into maths, these little bits were totally lost on me.
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