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Soul Mate

Ronald Lewis Weaver
QuestFiction Entertainment, LLC (2010)
ISBN 9780615357461
Reviewed by Charline Ratcliff for RebeccasReads (11/10)

About a week ago I was asked if I would be interested in reading the book “Soul Mate” by author Ronald Lewis Weaver. With a title like “Soul Mate” how could I even think about refusing? It’s amazing what thoughts those two little words can stir up and I knew I would accept the review request without doing my customary research. After all, when it comes to love isn’t each one of us searching for “happily ever after?” Doesn’t each one of us want that elusive “soul mate?” That one person who understands us better than anyone else? That one person who “gets” us? That one person who honestly thinks our morning crankiness and idiosyncrasies are cute? Of course that same person would still manage to laugh at our lame little jokes even though we’ve told them a million times…

So, my copy of “Soul Mate” arrived and I flipped it over to read the back cover. “TEACHER + STUDENT = DISASTER. OR DOES IT?” jumped off the page at me. Hmmm… That warm fuzzy feeling I’d had when I originally agreed to read this title was quickly dissipating. It was now being replaced with television images of attractive young women wearing orange as they are led out of court under police escort…

I put those images aside and continued reading the jacket. Claudia de la Rosa, our soon to be infamous school teacher, arrives in Beverly Hills, California with stars in her eyes. She’s the high school’s new English teacher and (surprise!) this is where she meets Lance, our eighteen year old student. I expelled my breath in a huge sigh of relief. At least age-wise he was legal… At this point I tried to coerce my warm fuzzy feeling into returning but apparently it had already left the building…

A couple hours later I sat down with “Soul Mate” and was pleasantly surprised. Weaver has a fantastic writing style and his words have the ability to transport you into this fictional world he has created. Great character development, and even though the love affair Claudia and Lance share doesn’t conform to today’s social standards there’s definitely nothing tawdry about it. In fact, halfway through the book, I actually found myself wanting them to be able to share their future with each other. Having finished “Soul Mate” I can definitely see why Weaver is the Senior Producer for television’s most-watched daily drama “The Bold And The Beautiful.”

In summary, “Soul Mate” is a great book, a captivating read and well worth the five-stars I’m giving it…

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