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    Light in the Shadows
    Light in the Shadows
    Light in the Shadows
    Audiobook11 hours

    Light in the Shadows

    Written by A. Meredith Walters

    Narrated by Shayna Thibodeaux and Cal Wembly

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    In the bestselling sequel to Find You in the Dark, A. Meredith Walters continues the emotional story of Maggie, Clay, and the power of unconditional love.

    How do you keep going when you feel like your life is over?

    Maggie never thought she’d see Clay again. So, she attempts to put her life back together after her heart has been shattered to pieces. Moving on and moving forward, just as Clay wanted her to. Clay never stopped thinking of Maggie. Even after ripping their lives apart and leaving her behind to get the help he so desperately needed. He is healing…slowly. But his heart still belongs to the girl who tried to save him.

    When a sudden tragedy brings Maggie and Clay face-to-face again, nothing is the same. Yet some things never change. Can the darkness that threatened to consume them be transformed into something else and finally give them what they always wanted? And can two people who fought so hard to be together, finally find their happiness? Or will their demons and fear drive them apart for good?

    The thing about love is that even when it destroys you, it has a way of mending what is broken. And in the shadows, you can still see the light.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJul 15, 2014
    ISBN9781442376168
    Author

    A. Meredith Walters

    A. Meredith Walters is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of New Adult novels including Bad Rep, Perfect Regret, Lead Me Not, and the Find You in the Dark series. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a counselor for troubled and abused children and teens. She currently lives in England with her husband and daughter.

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    • 5/5
      Amazing story, love it
    • 4/5
      Fun if frustrating because in a way it represents so much that is repressed [in all of us]. Also about sublimation. Venice.
    • 3/5
      Fijne, mooi uitgebalanceerde roman over de late carri?re van de Amerikaanse schrijver Henri James. James wordt geportretteerd als een getormenteerd man die in toenemende moeite heeft met de omgang met anderen, maar pas in zijn kunst tot een echte dialoog met het leven komt. Vakmanschap, al vermoed ik dat het vooral de liefhebbers van James zal aanspreken.
    • 5/5
      This well-researched but still speculative contemplation of the life and writings of Henry James was fascinating to me. Toibin meticulously painted a portrait of a reflective man who relished his undisturbed life. The author integrated the influences of life on art showing how James incorporated his astute observations in his creative process. The Master was an excellent character study utilizing flashbacks and bittersweet vignettes to reveal the inner life of a conflicted author.This is a book to be real slowly and savored. Highly recommended to lovers of literature.
    • 5/5
      I read this after finishing The Portrait of A Lady, and in addition to being a great read, it helped me understand that novel.
    • 2/5
      Tedious and speculative fiction supposedly about Henry James. Some obvious inaccuracies.. For example reading this book, one would conclude that James was a commercial failure as a play-write. But in fact a number of his plays were commercially successful. The author apparently needed something to humiliate James and his work as a play-write was handy because his plays are not popular now, and they are not up to the standard of his novels, stories, and essays.
    • 4/5
      An interesting and engaging glimpse into Henry James's highly interior personal life and writing process. If you like historical fiction about authors or Jamesian style, you'll lke this.
    • 3/5
      I really expected to love Colm Toibin's "The Master" -- I've liked other books by Toibin and I like Henry James. But I was somewhat disappointed because this really never came together for me. I found the James' style in Toibin's hands didn't work for me -- it became too slow and uninteresting and meditative for me to enjoy reading it.I admire what Toibin was going for here, but ultimately it didn't make good reading for me.
    • 5/5
      I loved this one! My favorite read of January. This is one of those novels featuring a blend of truth and supposition that can bring a moment in time to life, letting the reader feel as if he or she is invading personal space. Here, Tóibín explores the life of Henry James, and it is brilliantly done. It has made me want to go back and reread James' masterpiece [Portrait of a Lady] - I was really unhappy with the ending of that one, and there is a conversation presented here between James and his niece (a precocious reader) about why he ended the novel the way that he did, and it elevated that novel for me. James drew so much of his writing from personal life, and here we get insights into what and who inspired some of his most famous characters and stories. Now I am wanting to read more about James and also [All a Novelist Needs: Colm Tóibín on Henry James], which is a collection of all of Tóibín's essays on James.
    • 4/5
      Precise, polished, and perfectly understated. It is probably stunningly researched and full of clever inside jokes, too, but the prose is clean and pure. Not everyone's cup of tea.
    • 4/5
      A wonderful imagining of the inner life and social life of Henry James
    • 3/5
      Fijne, mooi uitgebalanceerde roman over de late carrière van de Amerikaanse schrijver Henri James. James wordt geportretteerd als een getormenteerd man die in toenemende moeite heeft met de omgang met anderen, maar pas in zijn kunst tot een echte dialoog met het leven komt. Vakmanschap, al vermoed ik dat het vooral de liefhebbers van James zal aanspreken.
    • 5/5
      Beautiful novel written in a magnificent style, highly recommended even if you haven't read anything of Henry James (neither have I).
    • 2/5
      I'm a fan of Toibin but I fear this is not his best work. It seems an idiosyncratic of specialization that only the author and few people are interested in. There is nothing new or inventive about the novel, just a suturing of parts.
    • 5/5
      This is such an enjoyable read. Toibin inhabits Henry James, the novelist, during a period towards the latter part of his life when he moves to Rye on the south coast of England. Toibin borrows from the style of Henry James and, if I may say so, is better at writing in Henry James's style that James, The Master himself.The novel reflectsback on aspects of James's life and coyness on his sexuality and weaves through the ispiration of some of his writing and the possible real relations he had with people who inhabit James's novels.It's a curious thing that the house James moved to in Rye, Lamb House, was also the home much later of E F Benson, another gay man whose novels of Mapp and Lucia are such a gay romp
    • 5/5
      The fictionalized biography can be a vexing thing! Often focusing on the scandalous or the trivial, sadly out of tune with its inspiration. This fictionalized account of James' life, or a part of it, is lovingly in tune and seems an even better mirror of him than the straight biographies which never seem to capture the subtleties of this most subtle of men and minds. I am in awe of the way Toibin has not only captured the man but also his time. He has a rare sensibility and understanding of the nature of this deeply conflicted author.
      One of the things that most caught my attention is Toibin's awareness of James' almost peculiar anxiety for the care and tending of children. It has always struck me as odd that a man who was himself childless, did not spend much time in the company of children, and indeed, seemed to never have ever been a child himself and, finally, even as a child did not have much association with children should take such a deep and anxious interest in children. In the novel, he is keenly interested and saddened by the situation of Oscar Wilde's young sons and concerned for the well-being of a young girl named Mona who is, or it seems to his mind, being unconsciously, or maybe even actually abused by the guests at a house party in Ireland. He is concerned that the child is not properly chaperoned and that she is made much of at an adults' ball and is vaguely sexualized. So often children in James' books suffer from indifferent care or are used in a most calculated way of exacting revenge. From a callow reading of his work one might think that he is using them only as the ultimate examples to highlight is theme of innocence versus corruption. However, readers of What Maise Knew can be only but painfully aware of James' deep concern and anxiety for children. Interestingly the question of the child Mona, which was highly suggestive of the adults at least unwittingly sexualizing the girl, if not actually abusing her, was never returned to. It lingered in my mind exactly what the author was trying to get at. As the tireless efforts Josephine Butler uncovered, child prostitution and the shunting of these children from one wealthy household to another was hardly a secret and seems to have been a vice endemic of the European aristocracy. I still wonder if this is what Toibin was suggesting. James is certainly unsettled by the girl and her presence at a gathering which is all adults, excepting her. In true Jamesian fashion it is left a mystery.

      For the most part I find The Master a masterful portrait of a complex man, a man who had a genius for subtlety and observation. Toibin captures James as well as any biography ever has, and he has done so much in the manner of James, to wit, the Mona episode.
    • 5/5
      A complex man is portrayed in a complex narrative. Toibin takes us inside the mind of Henry James. Through flashbacks, we grow to understand how Henry James's childhood in America, his experiences during the Civil War, and his family relationships shaped his life and led him to live in England and write some of the most influential novels of the era. Some of my favorite passages were the ones that shed light on James's writing process and helped us understand the multiple influences on a novelist. This is incredibly well-written. I wish I had read it at a calmer time. I felt like it deserved even more attention.
    • 5/5
      A meticulous exploration of a sensitive but very guarded person, only able to deal with his feeling (and then not all of them) by writing fictional accounts. The fact that the subject, Henry James, and his family are well known real people added to the enjoyment.
    • 5/5
      I am not a Henry James fan and little happens in this novel. And yet I found it wonderful and hard to put down. Toibin creates a distinctive voice, and a powerful and very relatable sense of melancholy. This novel made me think a lot about loneliness, and family bonds, and selfishness, and fear, and how all of this seeming contradictory stuff, actually blends together. You don't need to have read James or admire him to appreciate this distinctive piece of fiction.
    • 3/5
      As a fan of Colm Toibin but not of Henry James, I found this quite hard work. The novel imagines Henry James as the central character in one of his own novels. Neither a biography nor fiction, I found his mostly-repressed yearning for intimacy and love the strongest part of the novel.
    • 5/5
      This was my ‘between bookclub books ‘read, borrowed from the GVRL. I don’t usually like novels about real characters as it is hard to know where fact and fiction meet. Perhaps because I didn’t know anything about the life of the author Henry James, I thoroughly enjoyed this. I have only ever read one ghost story of Henry James but the book seemed to capture the tone of the late 1890’s in Europe. On the last page of acknowledgments, Toibin says he ‘peppered the text with phrases and sentences from the writings of Henry James and his family” – he has done a fine job.
    • 4/5
      If you're going to write a fictionalized biography, why not make the subject Henry James rather than that Frey fellow?
    • 5/5
      A superb book.
    • 5/5
      A wonderful book, especially for people who are as fascinated with Henry James the man as much as they are his stories. A touching novel about this complex, lonely and brilliant man.
    • 3/5
      I admit that I found this book easy to read, and that it held my interest. It is I take it biographically correct, and adds much to the 'record' by telling Henry James' thoughts and feelings. It starts in Januaary 1895, as James effort to be a playwright is failing, and concludes in October 1899, but there are many flashbacks and one gets a pretty full account of much of James' life from birth up to 1899--though of course disjointed, and flashbacky. But after reading the book I felt it really did not tell much and I was disappoinrted that the book did not proceed to tell of James' life after 1899..Stylistically, one is reminded of James' own writing, . But it is all rather 'precious' and makes a big deal of James' latent (usually, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., excepted) homosexuality. On balance, I found the book disappointing, considering how much it was hyped when it came out.
    • 5/5
      Mr. Toibin brings Henry James to life!
    • 4/5
      I just read all my Henry James books this year so this was a natural follow-up. Many, many scenes from the novels and stories are echoed in this book and it was fun to try to identify them. However, while I found the book well-written as far as style goes, in my opinion it suffers from the fact that the lives of real people don’t typically follow a narrative arc that translates well to a novel. But overall, a nice alternative to a traditional biography.
    • 4/5
      This is a beautifully written book - the sentences roll over you as you are reading them. And it's a sensitive examination of the way that James' life was echoed in his work, and the way his desire to observe, and write, led to a certain disengagement from the world - and made him let down the people who loved him. However, it seemed a little repetitive - the same events recur, with different protagonists. Perhaps this is meant to be cyclical - but James' approach doesn't really change, despite his guilt or shame about the events that have gone before. I agree with the comments of one of the reviewers below, that it ended up reading like an exercise in style rather than anything with real feeling.
    • 5/5
      Beautifully written fictional account of the life of Henry James. One of the best books I've read in the past few years.
    • 2/5
      This fictionalized biography of Henry James was disappointing & dull. It dealt too much with really depressing facets of his internal life.