Helpful Score: 4
By the middle of this wonderful book I was forcing myself not to read the last chapter to see where Brodie was going with this tale. Weaving reality and fantasy you find your self hoping and wondering and imagining an even larger tale.
Sarah McConnell is in her late thirties and has been married for a little more then 15 years when her husband in supposedly killed in a kayaking accident. He body has never been recovered, but yet one day three months later she sees him in the grocery store. There he is across the isle from her. After a quick distraction she looks over again and he's gone. Not sure of what she saw or didn't see she returns home even more bewildered then before.
Then the noises and bumps around the house begin, how can David be back, but on Halloween night he knocks on her door with quite a tale to tell. What is she to do. She can't tell anyone that she has seen him, the widow's club tells her that it takes a full season to get over a loss, but yet, David is there. She now must meet him clandestinely at their old cabin, she must move on with her life, but not leave David behind.
By the end of this book you are just mesmerized by the story that Bodie tells. You hope, but you fear to hope, because sometimes it takes a season to heal.
How do you move on when the ghosts come with you.
Sarah McConnell is in her late thirties and has been married for a little more then 15 years when her husband in supposedly killed in a kayaking accident. He body has never been recovered, but yet one day three months later she sees him in the grocery store. There he is across the isle from her. After a quick distraction she looks over again and he's gone. Not sure of what she saw or didn't see she returns home even more bewildered then before.
Then the noises and bumps around the house begin, how can David be back, but on Halloween night he knocks on her door with quite a tale to tell. What is she to do. She can't tell anyone that she has seen him, the widow's club tells her that it takes a full season to get over a loss, but yet, David is there. She now must meet him clandestinely at their old cabin, she must move on with her life, but not leave David behind.
By the end of this book you are just mesmerized by the story that Bodie tells. You hope, but you fear to hope, because sometimes it takes a season to heal.
How do you move on when the ghosts come with you.
Helpful Score: 2
Loved this book. It kept me guessing all the way through and, a week later, I find the ending randomly popping into my head.
Helpful Score: 2
This was a very different book with psychological suspense. Did her husband really die? Is he really alive or is it just in her imagination? It keeps you guessing throughout the book. It was a slow read in the beginning. About 2/3 of the way thru the book, it starts picking up speed. For me, it was just an okay book, nothing spectacular.
What does a woman do when she's 39, childless, and completely alone for the first time in her life? Is she crazy if she sees her husband beside a display of plastic pumpkins? Or is that a natural response to grief that will diminish in time?
Sara McConnell's friends told her that it was normal; her glimpses of her husband would last a season and then fade away. But what if there was another answer? After all, his body was never found. What if he was real? Or real ijn some way she couldn't yet understand?
And what if he was planning to walk back into her life?
Great book, full of questions, mystery, and told simply but beautifully.
Sara McConnell's friends told her that it was normal; her glimpses of her husband would last a season and then fade away. But what if there was another answer? After all, his body was never found. What if he was real? Or real ijn some way she couldn't yet understand?
And what if he was planning to walk back into her life?
Great book, full of questions, mystery, and told simply but beautifully.
This is not the type of book I read. I didn't read it.
