Review: Second Chance at True Love
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2014
What would you do to get back the love you lost? What price would be too high? Would you break your marital vows? Would you risk your livelihood, your reputation and the pain you would be inflicting on others? Would you pursue the object of your love, even when they ask you to stop?Sick Day by Morgan Parker is a tale of lost love, of rekindling that love at any cost, of living to be with the one you were destined to be with. Cameron and Hope have that kind of love, one that blossomed in high school and neither time nor distance has cooled its ardor. Throughout this amazingly tragic love story, I often questioned if Cameron and Hope had the right idea, to live in the moment, shoot for the stars, for that one special connection to make the perfect union and if it just involved them, I would be thrilled. Cameron had a family, Hope was in a long term relationship, had they reached their breaking point? No matter the reason, infidelity just sits wrong with me. Do things in the correct order, make sure you are finished with one relationship before seeking out another.That said, Morgan Parker has not colored his tale with rosy hues of angelic bliss, but has carved out jagged edges with a dull blade. Love often brings pain, unintentional or not. He has told of fictional characters that mirror reality. Life is full of what ifs, why nots and should haves. Is it better to miss out on true happiness, even if it is for a brief time? His style of writing is bold, direct and the blemishes are not covered with concealer. No matter how I personally felt about what was happening, I was drawn to the heart of this story by the magnetic sense of writing style possessed by this author who is brutally honest and forthright. Had I known there were previous book s with background information, I would have definitely read them first, with the hope that the dynamics of these two characters would have been easier to understand.