Review: Emotional and Thought Provoking.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 28, 2014
I was given an arc of this book in return for an honest review.This story has left me wishing and hoping for a miracle. As soon as I started to read it I was hooked and drawn into Kathy's life as she battles with bowel cancer. She's at the stage in treatment where she's willing and desperate enough to give anything a try. She meets Janie at the hospital, who by all accounts is cured, but not by the usual chemotherapy treatments. She offers Kathy a key to an old disused church where a healing pod is kept. Although not sure, Kathy tries the pod and starts to feel improvement almost immediately. The pod diagnosed her condition accurately, told her how many sessions she will need and finally she feels there's light at the end of a very long and dark tunnel. The pod can only be used by one person at a time and Janie tells Kathy she has chosen her and when her turn to pass on the key, comes, she will choose the next benefactor. All seems well, until Jimmy, Kathy's tinkering husband, gets in on the act and from then on chaos ensues as he wants to know the ins and outs of the pod's origins. Although this story will tug at your heart as you root for Kathy, it's also told with humour and there are other threads running throughout. The characters are totally believable as is the story line, making the reader think - if only... I highly recommend this.