Mary’s Musings...about COMEBACK LOVE by Peter Golden

When I was asked to read COMEBACK LOVE by Peter Golden I knew this would be a book as much about the past as it is the present.  When you read about a relationship from beginning to end, and then rewind the past into the present it makes the reader wonder "can you successfully bring your past and have it coexist in your present?"

So that is what I asked Peter Golden… When you reconnect with your past as an adult what baggage do you bring into the present?  You bring the memory of your pain, but it is what you don't bring that is more challenging--your trust, your belief, some might say, your illusion--that tomorrow will be the same as today.

COMEBACK LOVE by Peter Golden came to me from WASHINGTON SQUARE/ATRIA for a review and then to give away.  All I ask in return for you to be eligible to win is to please leave a comment on “have you reunited with someone in your past?”  Now, you have to come back on Sunday – April 8^th when I post the winners for the week and then see if you have won.  Please remember if you do not come back, you will not know if you won, and you will not get your prize because I am going to need your address. 

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~  REVIEW from The Reading Reviewer  ~

COMEBACK LOVE by Peter Golden

When you reconnect with your past as an adult what baggage do you bring into the present?

When an incident in Gordon Meyers 2012 life completely rocks his world, the one place he thought would help him get through it was in the 1960's.  Gordon sought out his first love, Glenna and through flash backs he relives the highs and lows of life when he was young, ambitious about everything and so much in love with a dazzling woman.

Gordon was a college student with unclear ambitions exploring his opportunities who meets and falls in love with Glenna a medical student.  Gordon and Glenna are polar opposites which makes blending for some reason easier, provides little difficulty in coexisting, and support for one another.  These are tumultus times in the country and Gordon is documenting the extraordinary happenings of life and the unpopular Vietnam war.  Gordon is selling his stories while Glenna is fighting for women's reproductive rights regardless of the cost or toll it is taking on her.  This is the way life was and either you moved with the times or they were going to run over you.  Sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll was a great mantra but can it play out for long term relationship.

For Glenna and Gordon the stress proved too much, secrets too stressful to keep things together.  They separated and started new and fulfilling chapters in their lives with only brief moments when they recalled how it was for them together.  So when Gordon comes back into Glenna's life unexpectedly the spark is still there but so is the hurt.  They both think this time back together is for a brief period of time and rehashing the good, bad, and unbearable in their prior relationship perhaps is a deterrent to any type of future, should they want one.  They both have grown, found other lives and loves but never got over the love they made, the life they shared and relationship they destroyed knowing the decisions made are not without pain but are the right ones at the time.

Peter Golden has written a book that takes you back in time with such reality you forget what year it is.  Mr. Golden is able to fluidly flip the time, point of view, and story so that you never lose track of where you are or what is going on.  I look forward to many great years of great reads.