Review: Home is Where the Healing Is
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2014
What do you do when life overwhelms you with a tsunami experience that is beyond devastating; beyond excruciatingly painful; and beyond the gaping loss of an amputation?Where do you go when you’re faced with a numbing experience that paralyses your emotions, and sends you tail spinning into a surreal world where you've lost the desire to really ‘live’? Where do you go to start hoping again; to start believing again; to start loving again?How do you bounce back from being battered, bruised, scarred, broken and ‘accidentally’ crushed physically, emotionally, spiritually and psychologically? How do you begin to heal?Jon Camden went home to Indigo Creek. “It was a place where his dreams were born; a place where his hopes and his aspirations had once lived.  Indigo Creek was a place he used to call home.” In this small, country-style community, where the pace of life was slow enough to re-connect with himself, Camden encounters mystery and suspense on the road to redemption. He learns that you really cannot ‘tell a book by its cover’ and that “sometimes in life you won’t understand everything…It’s hard to put a meaning on everything.”Author, J.R. Whitley unfolds the story in an interesting way by taking the reader to and from the past and the present in alternate chapters.  That way, the reader gets to understand Camden’s present by exploring his past. The opening scene with its descriptive language and chaotic hurricane-like storm, captivates and throws the reader into the literal and figurative storm that Camden is experiencing.When Camden grows past his pain and comes out at the other end, he begins to find answers to his long list of questions; and he begins to ‘live’ again when he accepts the truth that “everything in life happens for a reason…even (when) sometimes you couldn't understand the reasons why they happened.”  He comes out stronger and better for having gone through the fire.Indigo Creek is  choc full of life lessons and that makes it worth reading…several times over.