Pace
Moderate
No Roses For Sharon
Romance
- Print length
- 143 pagesPeggy Oppong Books, 2010
Description
Sharon and Jabez grow up as close friends, but adulthood forces affection to compete with ambition. Strong-willed and protective of the future she has planned, Sharon refuses to let her feelings for Jabez determine her choices. She leaves him and marries a young doctor, only to see that marriage eventually collapse. Afterward, she tries to regain Jabez’s affection, but his mother resists her return and complicates any possibility of reconciliation. Sharon must confront the consequences of treating love and personal advancement as opposing paths, while Jabez faces the reappearance of someone who once rejected him. Their strained bond drives a novel about pride, second chances, and whether lost intimacy can be recovered.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Tone
Reflective · Romantic · Tense · Wistful
Structure
Linear
Focus
Character · Plot · Relationships
Emotional intensity
3 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 2 / 5
- Structure
- 2 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Peggy Oppong Books
- Language
- English
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