Review: Rescuing Dawn
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 10, 2013
Andrew Holmes left Nicole after dating her for two years. He told her he was going to follow his dreams of sailing around the world and he didn’t know when he would be back. After a near death experience at sea he returns home to become a Paramedic and comes face to face with the woman he never forgot.Dawn Granger never truly got over the young man who walked away from her. He had been her entire life. And when Andrew left so did a big piece of her heart. After a number of years she met and married Tom, even though the love was more one sided, she had moved on to a certain extent. Then tragedy struck when a car accident took the life of her husband and son. She now finds herself working long hours as an emergency room nurse on the graveyard shift, only to go home eat and go to bed so she can get up and do it all over again. This is how she copes, with the unbearable lost of her husband and young infant son.  Dawn is still suffering grief two years later.Dawn has mixed feelings about starting a relationship again with Andrew or any man for that matter. And part of me as a reader totally understood that. I think I would have felt the same feelings to a certain extent, would he walk away again, would be at the back of my mind too.  I did feel there was  a great attraction between these two, and that they were meant to be together. I believe Andrew was just very young and selfish in the decisions he made.I had mixed feelings with this story for a couple of reasons. In the story line Dawn is very indecisive weather she wants to be in a relationship with Andrew again or not, and I don’t mean just a few times. The author at one point writes the following. “I want to believe you, but you tell me you’re ready to move forward and then you take three steps back.” That is how I felt this book was for a while. One to two steps forward then a few steps back. And why had Andrew not gone to the trouble to find Dawn when he returned to Perth? But then the Author writes one of the most moving scenes when Dawn and Andrew go away for a few days. And Dawn is having a little bit of a quiet time reflecting, that just brought me to tears.Bottom line is this a good read? Yes at times it is good, but at other times frustrating with Dawn’s Character going back and forth so much.4/4 stars