In recent years, writers of romance have been hailed across the world for creating heart-wrenching plots with characters that will woo you through the pages of the book. If you want to experience this phenomenon with original characters, look out for Gayle Deguzman’s contemporary take on romance in “After All These Years.”
This book follows Belle, our main protagonist, as she goes through different stages of her life, gaining nothing but success. Yet, something holds her back from having it all. Betrayal from her first love, whom she thought she would spend the rest of her life with, leaves her unable to trust anyone but herself. The readers’ hearts will break as they will get to know how much hurt Belle still holds in her heart for something that had happened in high school. Did it mean that she was still in love with her first and only boyfriend, Bradford, or did she hold resentment towards him for what he had put her through? Flip through the pages of “After All These Years” if you want to get to the end of this!
The way Belle progresses through life is as real as it is magical, which is just what Gayle wanted. Being an avid reader of the romantic genre herself, gayle wanted to try her hand at writing the stories which took up most of the space in her mind.
Gayle Deguzman says about her penchant for creating realistically fueled romantic stories, “I love writing with a passion. And I wanted to show the world all of the ways in which people can fall in love and inspire them to go out and make their own romantic story!”
“After All These Years” is Gayle’s debut into the literary world of heartbreak, longing, and reconciliation. The characters go through a lot of different scenarios in which they feel various emotions that are described with raw expressions that leave the reader rooting for the main couple.
The entire novel is riddled with twists and turns that will make the readers difficult to choose from more than one match for Belle as she goes through many realizations. Between newfound friendship and a past lover, the choice becomes more difficult as both are equally as swoon-worthy as the other. The readers will be at the edge of their seats till the end of the book as Belle will struggle between the obvious choice and the right one.
The brilliance of such a solid plot is wholly upon Gayle Deguzman, who is a romantic at heart. She wants the readers to relate to the characters she creates, which makes it possible for her to write them in the most human way possible. Gayle finds romance in every little thing, from nature to a stranger holding the door for you. This has what made “After All These Years” possible after the author spent many sleepless nights dreaming about all the ways people can fall in love.
Gayle Deguzman is an enigma which has been sailing for more than a decade on her 36-foot MacGregor catamaran all by herself with a Chinese Shar Pei dog for company. Her work experience has given her the experience to write about stories that she has spent hours imagining, and once she had started, she could not stop. “After All These Years” and various of Gayle’s work in progress stemmed from just an idea that she birthed into words that could tell the stories to people that she wanted to tell.
Gayle lives on Vancouver Island these days and spends much of her time writing away captivating romantic stories that are far more than just stories because they are not only romantic but thought-provoking and mind-blowing. The author hopes that with her debut novel, “After All These Years,” the readers will get to know the kind of author she is and will ardently look forward to what she has to put out in the recent future!
