Twelve Hours in Manhattan

Lingvo: English

Eldonita je 17-a de aprilo 2023 de SparkPress (a BookSparks Imprint).

ISBN:: 978-1-64742-395-7

(1 recenzo)

Two worlds. One heart. Twelve hours.

Bianca Maria Curtis is at the brink of losing it all when she meets Eric at a bar in Manhattan. Eric, as it turns out, is the famous Korean drama celebrity Park Hyun Min, and he’s in town for one night to escape the pressures of fame. From walking along Fifth Avenue to eating ice cream at Serendipity to sharing tender moments on top of the Empire State building, sparks fly as Bianca and Eric spend twelve magical hours far away from their respective lives. In that time, they talk about the big stuff: love, life, and happiness, and the freedom they both seek to fully exist and not merely survive.

But real life is more than just a few exhilarating stolen moments in time.

As the clock strikes the twelfth hour, Bianca returns back to the life she detests to face a tragedy …

Two worlds. One heart. Twelve hours.

Bianca Maria Curtis is at the brink of losing it all when she meets Eric at a bar in Manhattan. Eric, as it turns out, is the famous Korean drama celebrity Park Hyun Min, and he’s in town for one night to escape the pressures of fame. From walking along Fifth Avenue to eating ice cream at Serendipity to sharing tender moments on top of the Empire State building, sparks fly as Bianca and Eric spend twelve magical hours far away from their respective lives. In that time, they talk about the big stuff: love, life, and happiness, and the freedom they both seek to fully exist and not merely survive.

But real life is more than just a few exhilarating stolen moments in time.

As the clock strikes the twelfth hour, Bianca returns back to the life she detests to face a tragedy that will test her strength and resolve—and the only thing she has to keep going is the memory of a man she loves in secret from a world away.

1 eldono

Stephanie Jane recenzis Twelve Hours in Manhattan de Maan Gabriel

A lovely romance (especially for K-drama fans)

5 steloj

Twelve Hours In Manhattan is such a lovely feel-good romance novel which had me feeling cheered by its reading all the way through. Thanks to a chance meeting in a Manhattan bar, Bianca and Eric learn of each other's existences and spend a wonderful twelve hour night together in New York City. This is the first part of this three-part novel and I loved how vividly Maan Gabriel evokes the magical atmosphere of New York. I have never visited the city myself, but I could imagine everything Bianca saw and heard, as well as the way she and Eric felt together. They are very much ships in the night at this point, but I could completely believe in the depth of their connection.

Bianca is an avid fan of Korean dramas, her enthusiasm for which comes through strongly at several points in the novel. I understand Gabriel's fandom equals Bianca's …

Twelve Hours In Manhattan is such a lovely feel-good romance novel which had me feeling cheered by its reading all the way through. Thanks to a chance meeting in a Manhattan bar, Bianca and Eric learn of each other's existences and spend a wonderful twelve hour night together in New York City. This is the first part of this three-part novel and I loved how vividly Maan Gabriel evokes the magical atmosphere of New York. I have never visited the city myself, but I could imagine everything Bianca saw and heard, as well as the way she and Eric felt together. They are very much ships in the night at this point, but I could completely believe in the depth of their connection.

Bianca is an avid fan of Korean dramas, her enthusiasm for which comes through strongly at several points in the novel. I understand Gabriel's fandom equals Bianca's so I think Twelve Hours In Manhattan would be a good choice for other K-drama fans, but also for fans of fairytale retellings as there are hints of the Cinderella story underpinning Twelve Hours. While the romance aspect is obviously vital to this novel, I also really appreciated the prominence given to good, supportive friendships within the story. I felt Gabriel's depictions of the shifting dynamics in this friendship group were so brilliant. Everyone has their role to play, but they also felt like very real people making authentic choices.

I probably would not have picked up Twelve Hours In Manhattan had it not been for its WorldReads authorship, however I am now delighted that I did so. I loved the vivid New York scenes, the real world problems that Bianca has to surmount and, of course, the heart-warming Happily Ever After!

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Fiction, general
Fiction, romance, general