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 Chickpea Lover$26.95
Early Reviews For Chickpea LoverCHICKPEA LOVER (Not a Cookbook) by D-L Nelson
CHICKPEA LOVER (Not a Cookbook) - D-L Nelson Contemporary Romance/Women's Fiction Present Day -- Boston Liz Adams is married to a successful, yet cold and materialistic man. David has to have perfection in every facet of their life, and Liz is anything but perfect. Her home life is filled with planning social events to further David's career, and he only stops long enough to give her a to-do list, rather than say hello or kiss her cheek in thanks. Liz's job as a nursing professor brings her the joy she does not find at home. Her students adore her, and the lower level of expectations they have for her is a welcome change to the one in her marriage. It's not until she's on her lunch hour one day that she meets a Chickpea named Peter, an adorable man in a Chickpea costume, who may just save her from a resigned life of perfection. Peter owns a Middle Eastern food stand, and he dresses up as various vegetables to attract customers. Liz and Peter become fast friends, but work gradually into an affair. Once Liz becomes pregnant with Peter's baby, she finally gets up the nerve to leave her awful husband. David is enraged and cuts her off from any financial or material help. At one point, she must break into her own house to retrieve her clothing and her beat up Apple computer. Striving to move ahead with a new man and a baby on the way, Liz feels a sense of short-lived peace. Peter is every woman's dream of a hardworking, sensitive, loving man. He works longer hours to help save for the baby's arrival while trying to make a go of a wonderful relationship. When Liz is forced out of her teaching job at the college when she makes a stand against the administration, it adds to the overall struggle to make it in her new life. I picked up CHICKPEA to read, and 3 hours later I put it down with the great satisfaction that only a good story can give you. Liz is a well-rounded and interesting character whom you can only root for. She does not take her affair with Peter lightly, and once pregnant, does her best to make unselfish decisions. Peter is a man we all want to love and marry. For a while, he seems to be the only person who knows that Liz has what it takes to survive. CHICKPEA LOVER is deftly written, with memorable characters a reader won't soon forget. Although labeled a romance, CHICKPEA is more of a woman's story. Though the love between Peter and Liz is a wonderful part of this novel, Liz's self-discovery is the true focus, and an enticing one. For a story to be savored and enjoyed, D-L Nelson has penned a winner with CHICKPEA (Not a Cookbook). It will not tell you how to cook, as the title suggests; it is a story to be savored and enjoyed like any fine meal. Liz Ragland -Thompson Romance Reviews Today
CHICKPEA LOVER - D.L. Nelson Though unhappy with her married life as her spouse David is never home, Fenway College nursing professor Liz Adams says nothing avoiding conflict as if it is a deadly disease. Her business mogul spouse never offers salutations let alone words of affection. In fact his only discussions with Liz are soliloquies criticizing her for some alleged fault or error or ordering her to do something for him. Peter owns a Middle East food stand near the college. Liz is one of his better customers as she enjoys the palate and how Peter and his employees dress up as vegetables. Peter and Liz become friends and soon lovers. She becomes pregnant and asks David for a divorce but he is vindictive man who is trying to destroy her for betraying him. Other problems surface, but with Peter at her side, Liz faces the dinosaurs of her college and the nastiness of her ex spouse with dignity (and a wrongful firing suit) though knowing she will probably lose. Though at times this engaging contemporary relationship drama slows down to pontificate, readers will enjoy the metamorphosis of Liz from cowardly victim to willing dragon slayer. Liz makes the plot work though the secondary cast adds depth by enabling readers to understand her and easily accept how she changes as adroitly designed by D-L Nelson." Harriet Klausner
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