Review: Made Treadmill Time More Pleasant
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2012
Over a year after buying my first Kindle, it finally hit me in late October (yes, just a few weeks ago) that I could actually sit it on the little ledge on the control panel made for books. Not sure how it would work out, I was surprised after I started reading Shelly's Second Chance, to find that nearly ten minutes had passed. This was the point where I was usually ready to give up because I was bored out of my mind. To my further surprise, within about a week, I'd worked up to 25 minutes...because I wanted to see what happened next in the story...and I'd decided the first night to make this book my 'treadmill book.'Obviously it was good enough that I started spending a lot more time on that piece of exercise equipment.Why? Because it involves death...or maybe death, because we're not quite sure whether Joe and Alanna are entirely dead, or just on the verge of being dead. It also involves Shelly, a woman with a serious gambling problem. Honestly, I didn't especially like Shelly throughout most of the story...it was the wish granters who held my interest the most. And their guide, who apparently has a strong resemblance to Morgan Freeman.There is also Shelly's fiance Ben, who I wasn't too sure about for the first half of the book. Fortunately both characters turned out to be people I could like and respect if they were real. Both of them grew and changed throughout the story, though it took some drastic circumstances to bring it about. Still, without motivation, no one would change, and I thought both were handled in realistic ways.When we're first introduced to Joe and Alanna, they don't remember much about their lives on earth, but begin to recall some things as the pages turn. I'd actually expected their part in the story to be resolved by the end of the book, but I guess they're set to star in at least one more in the series. At least in Megan's New Love, second in the Wish Granters Series, which I just downloaded onto my Kindle. Yes, it's going to be read only while I'm on the treadmill, and I'm hoping it will distract me from walking in place as well as this one did.