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When Clouds Touch
Paisley has dreamed of this connection all of her life, held him in every pulse of her heart, glimpsed him from the corner of her eyes, like wisps of the future - drifts from past.
Malachi chased her in his dreams.... across a life time, seeing, but never touching.
And that’s how they lived their lives, continuously rushing past destiny. Reaching for each other, only to have their steps redirected.
When clouds touch, they create an affair of the heart. Will the heart be strong enough to accept the challenge?
Malachi chased her in his dreams.... across a life time, seeing, but never touching.
And that’s how they lived their lives, continuously rushing past destiny. Reaching for each other, only to have their steps redirected.
When clouds touch, they create an affair of the heart. Will the heart be strong enough to accept the challenge?
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First published October 31, 2014
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Ey Wade
24 books34 followersKnowing Ey as a writer and author is like cracking an egg’s shell in the air and wondering how far the splatter will spread. Wait, that’s kind of like knowing her as a person. She's like all over the board and always working on three to five projects at a time. Ey doesn't favorite spot in which to write and claims...
"My most exciting view is pointed at the keyboard. When an idea enters my head, I just flow with it. I haven’t been able to conform my writing to any specific pattern. I am more than often working on one story and the characters from another will just be dying to get my attention and I have to go into their world."
And I have a fan group, where people have joined!!! I'm honored and truly appreciative. https://www.facebook.com/groups/14240...
"My most exciting view is pointed at the keyboard. When an idea enters my head, I just flow with it. I haven’t been able to conform my writing to any specific pattern. I am more than often working on one story and the characters from another will just be dying to get my attention and I have to go into their world."
And I have a fan group, where people have joined!!! I'm honored and truly appreciative. https://www.facebook.com/groups/14240...
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January 31, 2015
You will simply love Paisley and Malachi. These two were destined to love each other and their sweet innocent way of coming together despite Paisley's health and overprotective parents just makes you love them more. Malachi is a real sweetheart and has an awesome sense of humor. He knows how to humor Paisley and her parents and lightens the moment with his big heart and cheerful outlook.
However, be sure to keep tissues for the ending. I can't tell you much emotion you'll feel at the end. The love that even through the despair and grief, hope shines through, and I feel touched by this story and will never look at clouds touching the same again.
However, be sure to keep tissues for the ending. I can't tell you much emotion you'll feel at the end. The love that even through the despair and grief, hope shines through, and I feel touched by this story and will never look at clouds touching the same again.
February 21, 2015
There were so many things I loved about this book and all of it was unexpected because I'd never read a book by Ms. Wade before. First, from its opening we are braced for what lies ahead with the mystical sense that everything that has happened and will happen is fated for its main characters: Paisley and Malachi. Also both characters have unique cultural nuances that jump off the page and transplant you into their world, their families, and their conflict in such a way that their differences from you, the reader, mean nothing. It's all about the love:instantaneous, real, thrilling, and undeniable. Lastly, this book has stayed with me longer than most because the author Ey Wade (such a cool name, I'm just saying), has a fresh, interesting viewpoint when it comes to the traditional romance novel that I appreciated. Paisley's issues were a rare sighting in any novel. It made her dilemma, which would have been uncomplicated and common in a different character's story, more poignant and much more understandable from every character's perspective in this one. And Malachi? Let me just say that sometimes a character is so inherently likable that you want to know them personally and I'm talking about something much more than book boyfriend panting. I loved Malachi from the first few pages for his sense of play. He was sweet, humorous and made me root for him immediately. It's his commitment and transitions in the book that make us hopeful and provide the fundamental romance that sustains the reader and this lovely book long after the last page.
December 11, 2014
I was hooked when I read the blurb and saw that it was all about soul mates.
This was a touching story. Some of the scenes were so sweet that they had me sighing. I learned some revealing things about albinism from reading this novel. They do not have an easy life, and it was reflected well within the story. A truly unique reading experience.
The ending didn’t end up the way I thought it would. I don’t give spoilers so you’ll have to read and find out what happened.
This was a touching story. Some of the scenes were so sweet that they had me sighing. I learned some revealing things about albinism from reading this novel. They do not have an easy life, and it was reflected well within the story. A truly unique reading experience.
The ending didn’t end up the way I thought it would. I don’t give spoilers so you’ll have to read and find out what happened.
February 11, 2015
Love was meant to be for Malachi and Paisley. It was love at first site, even before they even met. Two people, very different backgrounds. Will they overcome the boundaries of families and traditions? Author Ey Wade does it again. She draws with words. If you are up to a nice romance, this book is for you. And BTW, Malachi in Hebrew means my angel. Love takes your heart to the place it needs to be.
February 15, 2017
Being an overprotective Mom myself, I've always been concerned with my daughter and her involvement when she got older. Trying to shield her, thinking she was not as strong as me and needed more guidance. Reading this beautiful romance that blossomed before my eyes with the character's each thought out so well with Malachi's humor and charm complimenting Paisley's beauty and strength that if it weren't for Malachi they never would have realized just how strong she is. I have laid on many blankets upon the grass looking up at the clouds. This book, When Clouds Touch will have me looking at the clouds in a whole new perspective. This love story is super sweet and truly reminds me of my daughter's. I hope that every man and woman out there can find their Malachi and Paisley. Thank you Ey Wade for allowing me to release a much needed cry. Such a sweet book. I highly recommend it. Looking forward to reading other books you've written.
May 24, 2015
Whenever I begin a book–whether I know the genre or not–I am tempted to categorize it. You know how that goes: you read a few paragraphs or a chapter, and you go, ‘Oh, I see. This is supposed to be a thriller!’ or whatever the case may be. Even after reading the blurb for Ey Wade’s ‘When Clouds Touch’, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but I loosely categorized it in my mind as a romance. Then almost immediately as I began reading, I realized that this wasn’t going to be the same ol’-same ol’.
The premise, of soul-mates flitting about the outskirts of each other’s lives until the time of their predestined meeting, is novel but not unprecedented. What made it intriguing was the complete ‘otherness’ of the main characters. Paisley is a young woman grappling with what it means to be on her own for the first time in her life, struggling with overbearing parents and a desire to become her own person. So far not particularly remarkable, right? But Paisley is Japanese-American and her parents are very traditional, very protective. And added to that, Paisley has albinism which renders her legally blind. She also has congenital heart disease, a condition which–her parents often remind her–once killed her as a baby before she was revived.
Paisley’s “condition” is the tether that binds her to her parents in a way that she has always felt was stifling. But the path of least resistance for her has always been to … not resist. Except now, attending school and living on her own, she is finally on the cusp of independence, as long as she can convince her parents that she is being attentive to her health.
Enter Malachi.
He is a handsome East Asian man whom Paisley has known literally all her life, earthly and before. Though they have never actually met, nor spoken to each other, Paisley and Malachi’s souls were bound before their birth and they have been ever-present in each other’s lives from the time they were infants; always on the cusp, but never quite meeting.
When finally they do meet, in a minor mishap as she enters the building where he works, Paisley and Malachi quickly dispense with coy mating rituals and pour themselves into each other, recognizing their other half almost immediately. But there is still the pesky issue of Paisley’s health and her oppressively over-protective parents who in an effort to save her life have denied her the pleasures of living. This includes things as extreme as confiscating her phone to prevent her from contacting Malachi, and keeping her a virtual prisoner in their home when they grow concerned about this new attachment she’s formed.
Malachi‘When Clouds Touch’ is a love story, but also struck me as being a fairy tale in the best sense. Paisley has an otherworldly quality in appearance that cause people to stop and stare; and a princess-like isolation from the real world, that is similar to Rapunzel locked in the tower. Because of her isolation, and because she recognizes Malachi as her meant-to-be, she wastes no time in letting him know that she is devoted to him. Malachi is her prince, seeking to rescue her from the tower, using first his charm and eventually his smarts to overcome Paisley’s parents’ resistance. All the things that Paisley hasn’t seen, he is determined to show her; and if she asks, he can’t say ‘no’ even when saying ‘yes’ puts her health and life at risk. No time is wasted in this book with the sometimes tedious ‘love-me, love-me-not’ stuff. Paisley and Malachi’s conflicts come from the limitations she has because of her health, and from her parents’ well-intentioned but damaging hovering and intervention.
At first, as I read, I was waiting for ‘When Clouds Touch’ to show its romance-novel chops and become the kind of book one expects from that genre. But it never did. And the story was better off for it. When I let go of my preconceptions, the story and its characters settled in for me. I stopped expecting Paisley and Malachi to relate to each other as traditional romance novel heroes and heroines do, and I came to accept it as it was.
Ey Wade’s writing is worthy of note as well, because it gave the story an almost mythical quality which I believe was fully intended. The imagery had a wistful, dreamlike feel, particularly in the scenes that played out in a field of bluebonnets, and at a festival that left the pale-as-a-ghost Paisley covered in all the colors of the rainbow. The color in those scenes for me symbolized the color and depth that Malachi brought to Paisley’s previously monochromatic life, and added to the overall mystical feel of the story. Although at times I found the dialogue a little ‘romantic’ or sentimental, at other times it fit perfectly the theme of a love and bond that transcended time and space. And there was also something brave about the sentimentality when most writers these days (myself included) seem to be striving for the opposite by writing stories with gritty realism (but with a billionaire or two thrown in). So I applaud Ey Wade for going where so few writers dare to tread–not only in her style but in the unexpected, though not unsatisfactory climax to her book.
‘When Clouds Touch’ left me curious about what I may be missing by not having read other work by this author. But I suspect that when I do, those stories will–like this book–be somewhat magical, somewhat unexpected.
The premise, of soul-mates flitting about the outskirts of each other’s lives until the time of their predestined meeting, is novel but not unprecedented. What made it intriguing was the complete ‘otherness’ of the main characters. Paisley is a young woman grappling with what it means to be on her own for the first time in her life, struggling with overbearing parents and a desire to become her own person. So far not particularly remarkable, right? But Paisley is Japanese-American and her parents are very traditional, very protective. And added to that, Paisley has albinism which renders her legally blind. She also has congenital heart disease, a condition which–her parents often remind her–once killed her as a baby before she was revived.
Paisley’s “condition” is the tether that binds her to her parents in a way that she has always felt was stifling. But the path of least resistance for her has always been to … not resist. Except now, attending school and living on her own, she is finally on the cusp of independence, as long as she can convince her parents that she is being attentive to her health.
Enter Malachi.
He is a handsome East Asian man whom Paisley has known literally all her life, earthly and before. Though they have never actually met, nor spoken to each other, Paisley and Malachi’s souls were bound before their birth and they have been ever-present in each other’s lives from the time they were infants; always on the cusp, but never quite meeting.
When finally they do meet, in a minor mishap as she enters the building where he works, Paisley and Malachi quickly dispense with coy mating rituals and pour themselves into each other, recognizing their other half almost immediately. But there is still the pesky issue of Paisley’s health and her oppressively over-protective parents who in an effort to save her life have denied her the pleasures of living. This includes things as extreme as confiscating her phone to prevent her from contacting Malachi, and keeping her a virtual prisoner in their home when they grow concerned about this new attachment she’s formed.
Malachi‘When Clouds Touch’ is a love story, but also struck me as being a fairy tale in the best sense. Paisley has an otherworldly quality in appearance that cause people to stop and stare; and a princess-like isolation from the real world, that is similar to Rapunzel locked in the tower. Because of her isolation, and because she recognizes Malachi as her meant-to-be, she wastes no time in letting him know that she is devoted to him. Malachi is her prince, seeking to rescue her from the tower, using first his charm and eventually his smarts to overcome Paisley’s parents’ resistance. All the things that Paisley hasn’t seen, he is determined to show her; and if she asks, he can’t say ‘no’ even when saying ‘yes’ puts her health and life at risk. No time is wasted in this book with the sometimes tedious ‘love-me, love-me-not’ stuff. Paisley and Malachi’s conflicts come from the limitations she has because of her health, and from her parents’ well-intentioned but damaging hovering and intervention.
At first, as I read, I was waiting for ‘When Clouds Touch’ to show its romance-novel chops and become the kind of book one expects from that genre. But it never did. And the story was better off for it. When I let go of my preconceptions, the story and its characters settled in for me. I stopped expecting Paisley and Malachi to relate to each other as traditional romance novel heroes and heroines do, and I came to accept it as it was.
Ey Wade’s writing is worthy of note as well, because it gave the story an almost mythical quality which I believe was fully intended. The imagery had a wistful, dreamlike feel, particularly in the scenes that played out in a field of bluebonnets, and at a festival that left the pale-as-a-ghost Paisley covered in all the colors of the rainbow. The color in those scenes for me symbolized the color and depth that Malachi brought to Paisley’s previously monochromatic life, and added to the overall mystical feel of the story. Although at times I found the dialogue a little ‘romantic’ or sentimental, at other times it fit perfectly the theme of a love and bond that transcended time and space. And there was also something brave about the sentimentality when most writers these days (myself included) seem to be striving for the opposite by writing stories with gritty realism (but with a billionaire or two thrown in). So I applaud Ey Wade for going where so few writers dare to tread–not only in her style but in the unexpected, though not unsatisfactory climax to her book.
‘When Clouds Touch’ left me curious about what I may be missing by not having read other work by this author. But I suspect that when I do, those stories will–like this book–be somewhat magical, somewhat unexpected.
July 22, 2015
I had really high expectations going into When Clouds Touch. I was drawn in by the blurb. I couldn't wait to read it and was so excited when my schedule finally opened up enough that I could. This is a GREAT story idea. It's a beautiful and heart warming, and heart wrenching story. Even the general outline is amazing.
The execution, however fell short. I found the story line itself really hard to follow and almost like I was viewing the story through cotton. I don't know if that makes sense, but I felt like I was viewing it behind a barrier so I couldn't really get close to the characters and connect with them. I wanted to. I really did, because they seemed like great characters but there was just so much telling instead of showing and it jumped around so much that it left me confused and wanting.
Especially where there relationship is concerned. We didn't get enough of the important initial development of it because of the way the book jumps around. Another thing that bothered me is that they exchanged I love yous, and talk about how they're fated to be together, and THEN talk about if they're in a serious relationship or not. This isn't middle school. I know people say that without meaning it, but it's a huge pet peeve of mine, it diminishes the words and the value of the relationship if the words are tossed around with little meaning or implication of the future.
There are also a few little time line issues and general human emotion inconsistencies that bothered me. Basically I felt like I was reading the story board for an incomplete book. I find it most frustrating when a good writer doesn't reach their full potential in a great story, and I tend to be more critical then. I'm a fan of tough love. The thing about When Clouds Touch is that it CAN BE and amazing story. One of those books that makes you say "wow" and scream at all of your friends until they read it. It just isn't there yet. I still cried. I still felt it. But I need it to be more cohesive. I would love to see Ey do more with this because it's there, it's all there, she just needs to sort it all out and make it flow better. If she did that it would be an easy five stars.
*I was given a free copy of this book.
The execution, however fell short. I found the story line itself really hard to follow and almost like I was viewing the story through cotton. I don't know if that makes sense, but I felt like I was viewing it behind a barrier so I couldn't really get close to the characters and connect with them. I wanted to. I really did, because they seemed like great characters but there was just so much telling instead of showing and it jumped around so much that it left me confused and wanting.
Especially where there relationship is concerned. We didn't get enough of the important initial development of it because of the way the book jumps around. Another thing that bothered me is that they exchanged I love yous, and talk about how they're fated to be together, and THEN talk about if they're in a serious relationship or not. This isn't middle school. I know people say that without meaning it, but it's a huge pet peeve of mine, it diminishes the words and the value of the relationship if the words are tossed around with little meaning or implication of the future.
There are also a few little time line issues and general human emotion inconsistencies that bothered me. Basically I felt like I was reading the story board for an incomplete book. I find it most frustrating when a good writer doesn't reach their full potential in a great story, and I tend to be more critical then. I'm a fan of tough love. The thing about When Clouds Touch is that it CAN BE and amazing story. One of those books that makes you say "wow" and scream at all of your friends until they read it. It just isn't there yet. I still cried. I still felt it. But I need it to be more cohesive. I would love to see Ey do more with this because it's there, it's all there, she just needs to sort it all out and make it flow better. If she did that it would be an easy five stars.
*I was given a free copy of this book.
December 6, 2014
This was my first venture to Wade, though I’d seen her name around. This book is out of my typical reads, but is certainly one I hold dear to me.
“When Clouds Touch” has elements that touches me in ways not all romance novels do. Its characters aren’t typical to me. Their culture is one I’m unfamiliar with, but quickly grew to respect and enjoy. Paisley was pure and an adventurist. She wasn’t as fragile as her parents wanted to perceive. Malachi was honorable and deeply in love with his girl. She was a feisty one, being sure to push Malachi more than he intended to go, and that was hugely endearing to me.
This book proves once again that when you open a read, you must trust the author to guide you on an intriguing journey. I had no idea where Wade was taking me, but I remained the course and was pleasantly entertained and touched to the point of tears.
I highly recommend this book. It was touching and…pure.
Go, Ey Wade!
“When Clouds Touch” has elements that touches me in ways not all romance novels do. Its characters aren’t typical to me. Their culture is one I’m unfamiliar with, but quickly grew to respect and enjoy. Paisley was pure and an adventurist. She wasn’t as fragile as her parents wanted to perceive. Malachi was honorable and deeply in love with his girl. She was a feisty one, being sure to push Malachi more than he intended to go, and that was hugely endearing to me.
This book proves once again that when you open a read, you must trust the author to guide you on an intriguing journey. I had no idea where Wade was taking me, but I remained the course and was pleasantly entertained and touched to the point of tears.
I highly recommend this book. It was touching and…pure.
Go, Ey Wade!
July 28, 2015
Tear inducing.
It was like an Asian Titanic mixed with The Fault In Our Stars with a dash of Beautiful Burn by Adriane Leigh.
A delightful mashup of amazing love stories that I never really saw coming.
It was like an Asian Titanic mixed with The Fault In Our Stars with a dash of Beautiful Burn by Adriane Leigh.
A delightful mashup of amazing love stories that I never really saw coming.
September 4, 2016
A beautiful and unusual read!
This book was different from most of the romance books I have read over the past years, it really touched my heart on so many levels. I will be checking more of Ms. Wade´s books out.
This book was different from most of the romance books I have read over the past years, it really touched my heart on so many levels. I will be checking more of Ms. Wade´s books out.
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