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Title: The Topsail Accord

Author: J. T. Kalnay

Narrator: Scott O'Neill, Dawn Harvey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-12-13

Publisher: jt kalnay

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Wealthy divorcee Dr. Shannon Patrick meets a local, Joe, while walking on North Topsail Beach. Shannon, a geologist, has recently discovered oil and natural gas in the Marcellus Shale under Ohio. While the newfound wealth has provided her undreamt of new opportunities, including her new beach house in North Carolina, Shannon is still trying to understand her divorce. She feels alone, even though she has the love and support of her very close family.

Joe is a North Topsail local who has walked and run on North Topsail Beach nearly every morning for the past two decades, ever since the loss of his only child to leukemia, and his wife's subsequent grief-propelled suicide.

Shannon and Joe meet and carefully work towards a relationship that they can define and survive. The rules they implement come to be known as "The Topsail Accord". Follow along as Shannon discovers how, if at all, she can let someone love her again, and as Joe reawakens to the possibility that there is someone he can love. Set on North Topsail Beach, North Carolina; in Playa Jaco, Costa Rica; and in Cleveland, Ohio, The Topsail Accord examines whether bounded lives defined by agreed-upon intersections can be complete lives, or whether the rules they hope will protect them block perhaps their last chance at love.

Members Reviews:

Loved the way the author wrote this book! Great love story.. different!

Ok.. I read the other reviews.. I have to disagree with those bad reviews! Those people reviewed the characters.. not the author. Yes.. Shannon was a selfish bitch!! But.. she and Joe made an agreement. They had a unique love which was totally fulfilled while they were together. Yes, they only spent minutes and hours together over the years, but in those minutes and hours they spent together, they were "totally" together.. Most of us "normal" people in our "normal" relationships spend so much time, wasting so much time together. And in the end.. Shannon did give in to her love for him...

Now as far as the writing goes... It was very unique with the way he didn't use chapters. I felt it was very easy to follow, not confusing at all the way someone said in a bad review.

A true love story! not every love story has to be like the traditional ones!!

I loved it!!

Interesting Read

This book was very interesting. It was really hard for me to like the characters- Shannon was extremely selflish, Joe seemed to not have much self confidence or self worth..

I understand people setting rules and boundaries and living in a way outside the norm.. but it went on for so long where I thought something HAS to happen- Shannon has to realize the way she is forcing them to live is wrong.. or that Joe would leave her. Finally something does happen but it was unbelievable when it does. SPOILER ALERT-Really, the lighthouse curing her? It was just like wait, what?

On another note, it was a book I felt like I had to keep reading to find out what happened. Can you truly love someone and be so selfish and keep so many secrets though? I like the idea of truly spending moments together and being in the moment though.

What is the point?

This story was short on plot and very very long on words. After reading the entire book, though several times I told myself to stop and move on; I was very disappointed in the end as well as the rest of the story.