Follow Your Heart

By Lori Paris

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591291496
• ISBN13: 9781591291497
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Publishamerica Inc
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Charming!

Sara Martin was orphaned at the age of 8 and lovingly raised thereafter by her Aunt Reni. Shocked to her core by Reni's sudden death shortly after her college graduation, Sara has yet another, potentially more monumental shock to come. A letter in Reni's safety deposit box addressed to Sara reveals the devastating news that she was adopted as an infant. With a copy of her original birth certificate her only clue to her origins, Sara hires charismatic private investigator Dennis Miller to search for her birth parents. As the novel unfolds, Sara eventually meets her entire birth family, including her taciturn and enigmatic father and his young son. This is a charming, upbeat story about what COULD happen in these types of searches and the fantastic results Sara achieves, results which will enrich her life even as she herself breathes fresh new life into the lives of those she meets. Lori Paris's characters, including the 4-legged ones, are warm and 3-dimensional, and I guarantee you will fall in love with them as you read this well crafted, uplifting story.

A Beautiful & Believable Story!

A Story That Will Touch Your Heart!Lori Paris is a talented and gifted writer with the unique ability to capture your attention-and your heart- from the first page of her novel! "Follow Your Heart" tells the story of Sara Martin who suffers the loss of her parents when she is only eight years old. She is raised by her beloved Aunt Reni, until an aneurysm takes her life, and Sara must face the death of another loved one. She is just out of college, with her whole life ahead of her, yet Sara feels that her world has collapsed. She has lost her parents and her aunt, and with no other family, Sara is totally alone. As if Sara doesn't have enough sorrow, she discovers she was adopted as an infant. Now she thinks her whole life has been a lie and believes she belongs to no one. My heart went out to this young woman who was devastated when she learned about the adoption. But, Lori Paris weaves a beautiful and believable story about how life can beat you down, then lift you back up, and smother you with gifts of love and blessings.This is a must read for anyone who has been adopted, wants to adopt a child, or may give a child up for adoption. For those of us that have not been personally exposed to the adoption world, it teaches a very valuable lesson about family, love, commitment and sacrifice. "Follow Your Heart" is a wonderful, uplifting story that leaves you believing all is right with the world. I wanted to keep reading more, but closed the book with a smile on my face and a feeling of calm contentment. I look forward to the next book by Lori Paris! Susan KayAuthor of "Letters For Sarah"Idaho3-28-04

Follow Your Heart

Follow Your Heart has told the story that every adoptee and birthparent wishes to have happen to them. I started reading this story, knowing full well that it was a novel about a very serious subject and found myself wishing and hoping that all the stories of adopted people the world over ended this way, with love and sunshine all around. Finding out that you are adopted is one of the most intense bits of information that a person could possibly stumble upon, and to have to do it in the darkest of times as Sara did, well, that is one of the worst ways to have it happen. It ruins everything that you ever thought you were or would become. Unless you are strong willed and adaptable. Many of your pre-set ideas and conditions you placed on yourself have to become less rigid and a whole lot more flexible. I applaud Ms Paris in her well defined drawing of the life of Sara and the situations she faces. I also highly congratulate her on her understanding of her birthmother and birthfather characterizations. She has taken the walk and understands all the emotions and feelings that happen when a person suddenly is confronted with this. Even if they have known about being adopted all of their lives, the feelings and emotions are relevant. And the wishes for the ending that everyone wants to be so promising and full. Sara finds herself and unwittingly helps her birthparents to finally find themselves also. Follow Your Heart is a most excellent read for anyone, but especially for those who have walked the walk. Read it, give it to someone you love, give it to someone you know who may need it. It is a wonderful book.

Contemporary fairy tale

No one was lost in the woods and had to find their way home by looking for breadcrumbs in the novel Follow Your Heart, but author Lori Paris has created a wonderful contemporary fairy tale that warmed me through and through as a reader and had me turning the pages as fast as I could to see what was going to happen next. The subject of adopted people wanting to discover who they are is near and dear to my heart, as I adopted my daughter when she was five and in the last year and a half have witnessed the mixed bag of emotions she and all involved have experienced in her discovery of her past. Paris tells a fabulous story about a twenty-one year old who finds out she is adopted and sets about to connect with her birth relatives. The dialogue is current and believeable, the descriptions so well written I was lost in the storyline and felt as if I was Alice falling through the mirror and had been transplanted right in the middle of her made up plot. I can see this as a big screen movie or TV mini-series. Outstanding.I highly recommend this book.

Heart warming story

Follow Your Heart touches your heart with an inside look at how it feels for an adopted person to discover their birth parents. An entertaining, well writen story that conveys the emotionally charged consequences for all the characters involved!