Review: A Great Book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 3, 2012
I really enjoyed reading "God Blessed the Broken Road".  I look forward to reading the other two books in the series.  I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in books about faith and angels watching over them.Mariza and David where going on a road trip to Colorado. Mariza has always tried her best to watch over him. Their parents divorced when Mariza was 11 and David was 5. While their mother got re-married to a guy named John, their dad never re-married. It was raining before they left on their road trip and continued to rain. Mariza let David pick what music they listened to on the radio while she drove a Prius. The road trip was from Georgia to Colorado which would take a little over a day if they drove straight through.After an hour of driving David was getting hungry and wanted to find a place to stop to eat. After they parked and got out of the car they made their way to the building. David was already inside and Mariza was just about to go in when a man rudely shoves her out of the way. David gets angry, grabs the man by his collar, and hits the man which causes him to fall to the floor. Mariza and David decide to leave before anything else happened. The next stop was 12 miles away. When they reach the next rest stop, Mariza gets out of the car and falls into a giant puddle. Once inside the building Mariza goes to the restroom to change clothes and dry her hair using a hand dryer. The only place to eat at was McDonald's, it wasn't Mariza's favorite place but she was hungry. She ordered a box of fries and a drink. They ate in the car because it was safer and it was late at night.David decided to go to sleep while Mariza continued to drive. When she saw a road sign that read entering Tennessee she decided to wake David up because she didn't know where to go next. When they arrived at the rest area they saw a couple of state police and cops in the parking lot. The officer asked them to park their car and go inside the building. The reason was because the officers wanted everyone off the highway and go inside to be safe. Once inside the building, Mariza and David couldn't believe how many people had been crammed into a large open room. They notice a man standing against the far wall alone and decide to go over to ask him if he knew anything. Mariza gets a splitting headache and needs to take some aspirin. She walks over to the vending machines but it only took change and she didn't have any. She decides to go into the restroom to take the aspirin by drinking water from the faucet. Not knowing that the man she tried to talk to earlier was dangerous and was waiting to kidnap her.David was beginning to worry about his sister because she hadn't come back yet. David runs towards the officers who are showing people a picture of the suspect. David recognizes the man that he and Mariza had tried talking to earlier. David realizes that the man has taken his sister. The officers find Mariza's bracelet on the restroom floor. Officer Santos tells David that he was just informed that the vehicle the suspect was driving had just been found. David goes with Officer Santos to the spot where the suspects vehicle was found. The car is a rusted old Buick and beside the vehicle was a bloody shirt belonging to Mariza. David and Officer Santos go back to the building were Mariza was last seen. David goes back into the bathroom and finds a charm that he had given his sister last Christmas.While at the police station, Officer Santos receives a tip that the suspect had been spotted at a motel. David goes through a stack of folders until he finds the name Ted Borden. David and Officer Santos head over to the motel to find the suspect. David doesn't wait for the officers to locate the room the suspect was staying in. David finds the room that Ted was staying in and starts hitting him. Ted ends up in the hospital, goes into a coma, and eventually dies before anyone can question him about Mariza's whereabouts. David ends up calling his parents to tell them about his sister's disappearance. His parents blame him for Mariza's kidnapping. David walks to a gas station and calls his friend Josh to come pick him up. David goes to Josh's house and ends up sleeping for 2 days. Josh drives David to the police station to talk to Officer Santos. Officer Santos tells David after combing through the car, they found Ted and Mariza's prints, traces of hair and blood in the trunk. After leaving the police station, Josh and David go to a bar.  David ends up getting wasted. Back at Josh's house David takes a prescription of Oxycodone. David decides it's time to go back to his house and his friend Josh drives him home.David borrows a friend's car and runs some errands. The first thing he grabs is a picture frame that has his and Mariza's photo in it. Then he grabs a candle he brought from home and lights it. Then he pulled out a bottle of Captain Morgan and the pills he took from Josh's house. Last thing he gets out was a pen and notepad to write his parents a letter. He then folds the letter and places it in the envelope that has the word "Goodbye" written on the outside. He proceeds to take 20 pills of Oxycodone and drink the bottle of Captain Morgan using a shot glass.  An hour later, Josh arrives at the motel and kicks the door in when David doesn't answer. He finds David barely breathing and calls 911. David is rushed to the hospital.While in the hospital David finds himself in Heaven where he sees his sister. Mariza tells him to go back to live his life. She says he is destined for great things and it's not his time yet. David wakes up in the hospital and Josh tells him his parents do care about him. After staying in the hospital for a couple of days, his parents suggest he goes into a program to help him cope with things he had been through. A couple of years had passed before the family found out what happened to Mariza. It turns out that Ted wasn't the only suspect. It turns out that Ralph Skeeter owned a van that was seen at the motel and helped Ted with disposing the body. Mariza had been cremated because she didn't want to be put in the ground. David was glad because he could take his sister with him wherever he went. He moved out of Georgia and ended up in Seattle, Washington. He works for a crisis center answering phones.I received this book from the author for free in exchange for an honest review.