Review: A rare five star from me
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2012
After more than a few disapppointments from indie authors recently, this book was a wonderful surprise. If you're able to frankly look at your life, what woman hasn't thought about running away. Just getting in a car and driving to somewhere new, with the possibility that you can re-invent yourself there into the person it was possible for you to have become if you'd taken the other path. What if?To the reviewer who said this book was "too much about bubble bath"...my first impulse is to think that you must be either very young or very jaded. This book was about the need for us to break out of our earth-tone existences and allow the purples and blues and yellows of the world to color our lives. It wasn't about bubble bath at all. It was about the feeling that you get when you put that first toe into the tinglingly hot water of a luxurious bubble bath. That knowing that the next few minutes are going to be for you...about you...and only you.The book I read before this one read like a product placement how-to. I didn't care if the protagonist ate [brand name] cereal moistened with grape juice. Because I didn't care about the character. I cared about Mara Jane and her Abundance bubble bath. A lot. I am in many ways Mara Jane. I ran away from my life six years ago. It caused me a lot of pain, but in the end I found out who I was...or at least I realized who I want to be. Then I stepped back into my old life and made the new me fit.This book is about finding yourself. Finding a way to fit yourself into the life you have chosen. It was nicely written, only a few word misspellings, and to me was the equivalent of a "feel good" movie enjoyed with thick real buttery popcorn (and a handful of Hershey's Kisses!) I recommend it with a very rare-for-me five-star rating.