Review: A book about life before death changes things and beyond.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2012
This was the first Jill Barnett book I checked out and the essence of the book is about what happens when a woman's life is shattered after her husband dies and how she makes it out of her grief and starts living again.  The first part of the book is told in flashback as it gives an overview of how she met her husband and their life together raising their kids as well as running their company selling snowboarding equipment.  Everything changes in the middle of the night when tragedy strikes as her husband is killed in a tragic car accident.  The rest of the book can be a bit depressing at times as the woman is reeling and really doesn't know what to do with herself with her husband gone.  There are little moments where it looks like she's getting better and getting over her depression, when something happens to make her go backwards in her grief.  All of her kids at one time or another are concerned about her but there really is nothing much they can really do, because until she makes some kind of peace with the fact he's dead and there's nothing she can really do about it, she's going to be stuck in that place.  The book ends up being the journey from happiness to grief and sadness and it goes back full circle to happiness of a sort at the end of the book.  I liked this book so much that I've read a few other Jill Barnett books since and enjoyed them just as much maybe just a little bit more as the subject matter of grief can be a little depressing no matter how well written.  But I am giving it a five stars because to me it really was very well written and a good book despite the heavy subject matter.