The Second Time We Met, (Paperback)

from CMash

THE SECOND TIME WE MET by Leila Cobo Published by Grand Central Publishing Division of The Hachette Book Group ISBN-13: 9780446519380 At the request of The Hachette Book Group, a TPB was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion. Synopsis (from publisher): Asher Stone grew up in an idyllic Ca...

from voracious

Asher Stone is a college student with a star soccer career ahead of him, until a car accident puts his future into question. Though he had been adopted as an infant and raised in an wonderful, loving home in California, his near death experience leads him to wonder about his biological mother and...

from AmeKole

This was a quick read - i was able to read it in one day (and I have 2 little kids!). I appreciated the juxtaposition between the idyllic life of a boy being raised in California and the dysfunction of both family and community in Columbia. The realities of living under such harsh oppression and ...

from cindyXIII

"As long as she was Rita Ortiz, she would be a maid, a single mother who'd had to give her child up for adoption, the lover of a dangerous man, a failed daughter, a sister who had left her brother behind." -pg. 282 "...even when you cross to the other side, someone or something can still bring yo...