Alison Cochrun
Auteur de The Charm Offensive
Œuvres de Alison Cochrun
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1987-02-27
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Portland
- Professions
- English Teacher
- Courte biographie
- Alison Cochrun is a former high school English teacher and a current writer of queer love stories, including her debut novel, The Charm Offensive. She lives outside of Portland, Oregon with her giant dog and a vast collection of brightly colored books. She controversially believes evermore is the greatest Christmas album of all time, and she's probably sitting by a window right now hoping for snow. You can find her online at Alisoncochrun.com or on Instagram and Twitter @alisoncochrun.
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I received this book for free, this does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review
She’d been publicly ridiculed and dumped, Joe was injured, and she’d rear-ended the shit out of her childhood best friend turned nemesis’s car.
Here We Go Again was a story of second chance love, grief, and shedding those childhood hurts. Logan and Rosemary were childhood friends who's friendship ended when a kiss throws confusion and misunderstandings into the mix. Now, as adults teaching at their old high-school, they carefully try to avoid each other. Logan wanted to travel and see the world but when her mother up and left her father, she didn't want to hurt her father by leaving him too, so she still lives at home and has a string of meaningless relationships. Rosemary was the dedicated student who left and taught at a prestigious school, until her dedication was amplified by her anxiety and always having to be perfect, all leading to her having a break down and coming home. When a teacher that made a huge difference in both their lives, ropes them into a cross-country trip, they're forced to confront each other and themselves.
She is thirty-two, crashing into Logan. Always crashing into her. Three years of friendship, four years of hating each other, ten years of not talking, and then this.
I'm not going to lie to you, you're going to hurt when you read this. The teacher, Joe, has cancer and he's decided to not do another round of chemo, so he only has a few weeks to live. The road trip starts in the first half and we get “I've made a binder for the trip” Rosemary and “Let's detour!” Logan and Joe, butting up against each other. The clashing personalities help readers learn more about the characters, Rosemary is scared of not being perfect and her ADHD plays into this, her father dying young, and having a workaholic mother, have made her insulate herself because she can't handle surprises. Logan also has ADHD and with her mother just leaving and not staying in her life, she's scared to really get close to someone in fear of the hurt she'll endure if they leave. Individually, these two have issues to work out and then there is the hold-over of the “kiss”. Logan doesn't even know that Rosemary is a lesbian until a little before the midway point.
Because Logan was everything she wasn’t: tall and loud and goofy; brave and unfiltered, quick to laughter, quicker to tears, every big feeling inside her worn boldly on the outside.
The road trip has Logan and Rosemary calling a friendship truce for Joe and as they detour more, their walls start to break down. This was told in povs from Logan and Rosemary but Joe is a big part of the story and half-way through, he gets his own second chance when one of his life's regrets takes them to Mississippi and an old love. Rosemary and Logan have their own break through and we get an open door scene as they come together. I thought the story slowed some as they stayed in MS but then it rushes as the reality of Joe's illness hits and they quickly make their way to Maine where he wants to die in his cabin on the water.
Rosemary kisses Logan Maletis in the rain outside an Albuquerque hospital, and dammit, she tastes like strawberries.
The grief that's been building hits hard in this last half ending and while Rosemary has pretty much dealt with her issues after a session with her therapist, Logan still struggles, especially with Joe's reality finally hitting her. We get, kind of a rushed, moment with Logan seeking out her mother and finally trying to put that pain to bed.
Everything is beautiful and painful.
Even though some levity pops up here and there with Logan and Rosemary playing off each other, there is so much grief in this (not that romance can't have grief!) and Joe plays such a big part, that I hesitate to strictly call this romance genre, it's more fiction with romance to me but your mileage may vary and all that. The, still, realities of being gay in America were a part of the story instead of being ignored and added a fabric layer, there were some flashbacks to Logan and Rosemary in high-school that I thought helped fill out their background, and we got an epilogue that showed these two were on the HEA road. If you want to read a road tripping, second chances, putting childhood hurts away, with it's going to make you hurt grief, then you should pick this one up.… (plus d'informations)
She’d been publicly ridiculed and dumped, Joe was injured, and she’d rear-ended the shit out of her childhood best friend turned nemesis’s car.
Here We Go Again was a story of second chance love, grief, and shedding those childhood hurts. Logan and Rosemary were childhood friends who's friendship ended when a kiss throws confusion and misunderstandings into the mix. Now, as adults teaching at their old high-school, they carefully try to avoid each other. Logan wanted to travel and see the world but when her mother up and left her father, she didn't want to hurt her father by leaving him too, so she still lives at home and has a string of meaningless relationships. Rosemary was the dedicated student who left and taught at a prestigious school, until her dedication was amplified by her anxiety and always having to be perfect, all leading to her having a break down and coming home. When a teacher that made a huge difference in both their lives, ropes them into a cross-country trip, they're forced to confront each other and themselves.
She is thirty-two, crashing into Logan. Always crashing into her. Three years of friendship, four years of hating each other, ten years of not talking, and then this.
I'm not going to lie to you, you're going to hurt when you read this. The teacher, Joe, has cancer and he's decided to not do another round of chemo, so he only has a few weeks to live. The road trip starts in the first half and we get “I've made a binder for the trip” Rosemary and “Let's detour!” Logan and Joe, butting up against each other. The clashing personalities help readers learn more about the characters, Rosemary is scared of not being perfect and her ADHD plays into this, her father dying young, and having a workaholic mother, have made her insulate herself because she can't handle surprises. Logan also has ADHD and with her mother just leaving and not staying in her life, she's scared to really get close to someone in fear of the hurt she'll endure if they leave. Individually, these two have issues to work out and then there is the hold-over of the “kiss”. Logan doesn't even know that Rosemary is a lesbian until a little before the midway point.
Because Logan was everything she wasn’t: tall and loud and goofy; brave and unfiltered, quick to laughter, quicker to tears, every big feeling inside her worn boldly on the outside.
The road trip has Logan and Rosemary calling a friendship truce for Joe and as they detour more, their walls start to break down. This was told in povs from Logan and Rosemary but Joe is a big part of the story and half-way through, he gets his own second chance when one of his life's regrets takes them to Mississippi and an old love. Rosemary and Logan have their own break through and we get an open door scene as they come together. I thought the story slowed some as they stayed in MS but then it rushes as the reality of Joe's illness hits and they quickly make their way to Maine where he wants to die in his cabin on the water.
Rosemary kisses Logan Maletis in the rain outside an Albuquerque hospital, and dammit, she tastes like strawberries.
The grief that's been building hits hard in this last half ending and while Rosemary has pretty much dealt with her issues after a session with her therapist, Logan still struggles, especially with Joe's reality finally hitting her. We get, kind of a rushed, moment with Logan seeking out her mother and finally trying to put that pain to bed.
Everything is beautiful and painful.
Even though some levity pops up here and there with Logan and Rosemary playing off each other, there is so much grief in this (not that romance can't have grief!) and Joe plays such a big part, that I hesitate to strictly call this romance genre, it's more fiction with romance to me but your mileage may vary and all that. The, still, realities of being gay in America were a part of the story instead of being ignored and added a fabric layer, there were some flashbacks to Logan and Rosemary in high-school that I thought helped fill out their background, and we got an epilogue that showed these two were on the HEA road. If you want to read a road tripping, second chances, putting childhood hurts away, with it's going to make you hurt grief, then you should pick this one up.… (plus d'informations)
High school English teacher, Joe Delgado is dying and his dying wish is that his two favorite students, Logan and Rosemary go on a road trip with him from Washington State to Maine, where he owns a seaside cottage. The only problem: Logan and Rosemary, once best friends in their teens, no longer speak to each other in their laste twenties and haven't for 10 years...since a fateful kiss at a party when they were 14.
However, Joe has been a surrogate parent to both girls so how could they refuse? The question is can they put their differences aside to grant Joe is dying wish and will they get their lives back on track as they cross the country?
The main characters in Here We Go again and really good, including the dog Odie and Joe's former lover, Remy. The trip is fun with an underlying current of doom as Joe's cancer gets worse.It is interesting to see Logan and Rosemary confront their issues, both personal and relationship wise.
All lin all a really good read.… (plus d'informations)
However, Joe has been a surrogate parent to both girls so how could they refuse? The question is can they put their differences aside to grant Joe is dying wish and will they get their lives back on track as they cross the country?
The main characters in Here We Go again and really good, including the dog Odie and Joe's former lover, Remy. The trip is fun with an underlying current of doom as Joe's cancer gets worse.It is interesting to see Logan and Rosemary confront their issues, both personal and relationship wise.
All lin all a really good read.… (plus d'informations)
I have never been so happy for a book to destroy me.
Childhood best friends Logan and Rosemary turned into rival teachers and now have to band together to take their dying former teacher (a gay man named Joe Delgado) on one last road trip.
I came into this as a huge fan of Kiss Her Once for Me and was absolutely not disappointed by this second Sapphic romance. I love the nuerodivergent rep (ADHD) in both women and anxiety and messy parental baggage. Even in the ADHD rep, Rosemary and Logan clearly experience it in different way, and I loved that this highlighted how not all diagnoses present the same. The road trip was fantastic, the parallel and metaphors and callbacks were so beautifully done.
I cried...a lot. My dad fought cancer and later died of something else, and his name was Joe. So there was a lot of confrontation of grief for my own loss, and it was actually really cathartic. Cochrun captured the grief and loss in a raw, painful, beautiful way.
If you love Sapphic romances that will also utterly wreck you, this is the one.… (plus d'informations)
Childhood best friends Logan and Rosemary turned into rival teachers and now have to band together to take their dying former teacher (a gay man named Joe Delgado) on one last road trip.
I came into this as a huge fan of Kiss Her Once for Me and was absolutely not disappointed by this second Sapphic romance. I love the nuerodivergent rep (ADHD) in both women and anxiety and messy parental baggage. Even in the ADHD rep, Rosemary and Logan clearly experience it in different way, and I loved that this highlighted how not all diagnoses present the same. The road trip was fantastic, the parallel and metaphors and callbacks were so beautifully done.
I cried...a lot. My dad fought cancer and later died of something else, and his name was Joe. So there was a lot of confrontation of grief for my own loss, and it was actually really cathartic. Cochrun captured the grief and loss in a raw, painful, beautiful way.
If you love Sapphic romances that will also utterly wreck you, this is the one.… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
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- Membres
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- Popularité
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- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 45
- ISBN
- 13
I enjoyed this (friends-to-)enemies-to-lovers Sapphic romance. Logan and Rosemary's past is explored slowly throughout, but most of the book focuses on the present when they slowly start to trust each other and work together. Both are neurodivergent (ADHD) and Rosemary has anxiety, which comes out in her perfectionism and needing to know what happens next - both women have to adjust some for the other. I also liked getting to know Joe and his story, and why it's so important to him to go to Maine before he dies. A sweet love story with a lot of depth.… (plus d'informations)