Review: Beautiful, touching story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 1, 2011
This was a beautiful story. It swept me off my feet. There were some formatting issues. Period in places where commas ought to be (I found quite a lot of this), capital letters in the middle of sentences. The beginning was a bit rough. The short sentences felt like an attempt at increasing the pace, make it feel urgent, but unfortunately for me, it gave the beginning a staccato fee. Every short sentence dragged me out of the story and made it very hard to get into. So honestly, I skipped a few pages until the words began to flow. About the time Sarah appears on page the story really begins to pick up.Otherwise, I found myself captivated by this story. It's a very sweet story, loaded with very real emotion. Jake is a hard man, whose positive he's unlovable, which is what makes him such a fantastic hero. Sarah is a hard working mother trying to take care of a special needs child. At times, she was a little too sweet for me. There were some points where she wasn't entirely realistic for me and I wanted to see her feel something real. And sometimes the emotion got a bit over the top. But really, the story pulled me in and kept me reading and kept me rooting for this family. I loved Gwendolyn. She made me laugh out loud. And Jenny was so real I wanted to kiss her. I wanted to be a fly on the street in the front of their house. I laughed out loud (and often continued to giggle several hours later). I cried. My heart soared and broke. I loved it and I look forward to reading Jenny's story.