Deeper

I don’t know how a book could be any deeper. Into the deep waters, into the deep emotions, into loving one so deeply you are able to res-erect them.Bess, now going through a divorce to the man she once was in love with, is grasping at her past when she moves into the old beach house as her new residence. With all the feelings, emotions, and memories of the beach house, it is easy to want those times back, So even though it alarms her, it does not surprise her when the love of her life emerges from the water to be with her once again.She is confused by the realness of it, because he feels so solid. The way they felt then seems to be here now, but is she making this all up in her head? It couldn’t be because he feels so real. It isn’t until he fades in his attempt to leave the beach house that she realizes he is real, but for how long?How can love get you through losing someone you feel so deeply for, when you can’t let go.I felt when I read this.

Bess returns to the beach house where she spent her summers, her heart wrenching at the changes in her life. When she finds herself at the surf dreaming of Nick, her summer fling from years gone by, he suddenly appears. He looks exactly as he did all those years ago, and both of them are swept away by unresolved passion. But something is off - Nick hasn't aged at all, and he doesn't know where he's been all these years. Bess is at a loss trying to rationalize her emotions, and she can't bring herself to second guess another chance with Nick.I really love Megan Hart's work. She isn't afraid to get into the nitty gritty emotional stuff that isn't always, er, posies and lollipops. In other words it's awkward and it's uncomfortable. Her stories focus on those moments in life that are painful and tough, moments that aren't always easy to read about. Deeper is a story about choices and regret. Bess had made a choice many years ago that broke her and Nick apart. Nick made a choice that ultimately put them apart for good. When they're reunited years later, with the help of the inexplicable, they wade through the events of their past while reigniting their passion for each other.Though a lovely tale, this wasn't my favorite by Ms. Hart. That honor, I think, is still held by Broken or Collide. I found Bess hard to like at times, and I didn't really understand how she could do the things she was doing (or not doing). Then again, that's the fun in reading a well-written book with super introspective themes. For me, though, I didn't connect with Deeper as, er, deeply, as I did with other works by Ms. Hart.

After finishing, Dirty, Broken, Tempted, Everything Changes and Stranger I was excited to read this book. All of the others have been 3.5-4.5 reads for me. However, this book I just never connected with and when I did I was hoping for more of a story that never happened. The "then" parts were interesting and I was engaged with Nick/Bess during most of those chapters, but that was the only positive. As far as the "now" - why not follow the storyline with Alicia and the Ouija board (or at least learn something from the books Bess did purchase from her), for a while I thought that Eddie or Andy murdered Nick (as a mistake) and thought that might have been an interesting twist regarding his disappearance and reason for him to come back, but nothing interesting transpired. What really happened was just a sad commentary on missed opportunities of the past. It felt shallow and unfinished at the end. The sex scenes were good as in past books, but because the story and characters were lacking, I found I enjoyed the steamy scenes less as the book progressed. Also, I didn't like Eddie much. He was a bland and unbelievable character in my opinion. Even more unbelievable than the Nick the ghost- go figure. All in all, I am disappointed. I am still going to read Naked and am hopeful this book is just an anomaly for this author.

I absolutely LOVED this book, I couldn't put it down and read it in two days! I have read Megan's other books and have liked them, but this book was amazing. I can't begin to explain the emotions I felt while I was reading it. Megan is a great writer and can truly express in words the love two people felt for each other, I could totally imagine down to the slightest detail everything that was happening.And yes, as others have wrote, I was in tears at the end of the book and can't stop thinking about it. I wish there was an epilogue, however, that told what happened with Bess and Eddie. And I don't want to give anything away, but as much as it was obvious how much Nick loved Bess, I wish he would've actually told her. I also wish the paranormal aspect of the book was explained a little more, but that's just my opinion, I like answers.So overall, this was a beautifully written and haunting romance that will stay with me for a long time. I highly recommend it if you like great romance with great sex.

Nick and Bess meet each other when Bess goes to her family's beach house for the summer. Nick is a "townie". They are attracted to each other immediately. Bess has a boyfriend back home and she suspects he's screwing around on her. One thing leads to another and they end up getting involved, but tell each other its just a summer fling, it won't mean a thing. Summer ends. Twenty years later they meet up again.I was so emotional reading this book. About love lost and then found again. About not knowing what happened to someone you cared so deeply for. Life is such a short and fragile thing and this book reminded me of that fact over and over again. This REALLY is a good read if you don't mind bawling your eyes out! I would definitely recommend this book and and the others that Megan has written. I've read several of hers and loved them all!

There are lots of the real life facts and explanations were omitted from the story but I understand it as because the author wanted put the weight on emotional exchanges than real facts. I'm not sure about Bess was the one made a mistake though. If I'm insisted to point out her mistake was that she didn't have a courage to tell people what she want. But I don't really want to say it's a mistake because we all doubt ourselves time to time. Especially if we don't get any encouragement from someone you really want it from. The choices you make in our life are not always right ones but that's life. Isn't it? The saddest part is you only realise when you get older and wiser that the choice was wrong and you made a bad choice because you were young, naive and eager to believe you are the right one. It's a question of if only knew the outcome. Well, we all know it's impossible to know it. Yeah, that's life. It's a great story about we all have dilemma of making choice in life. To be honest I don't think this is a romance book. But it's worth reading.

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Sometime you read a book and you visualise the story with this it's childish with no action it's takes u then and now it became so annoying did not bother to finish the book, comparing it to 50 shades was a joke waisted my time reading it

Again another brilliant book by Megan Hart storyline superb her books always puts a lump in my throat and touches the heart strings.

As usual Megan Hart gives us a good story to 'get into' and hold our interest right to the end.

It was a good book to read, kept you on your toes wanting more as you were reading through it.

This was such a nice easy read...I just couldn't put it down!Though somethings were hard to believe...I WANTED to believe in it!I loved the way Megan went from the present back twenty years. It's an incredible Romantic love story!

I loved this book, the story line was original and kept me hooked through it all, I recommend this to anyone who's looking for something a bit different and out there.