Review: Sleeping through the Beauty
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2013
I received a free download of "Sleeping through the Beauty" by Regina Puckett through the author, in exchange for a honest review.This was a very moving and tender romance short story. I really liked it. It left me with a god feeling.Phillip, a lawyer and his brother, Roger accept a dinner invitation from Donna for Christmas Eve dinner, but this marks the first year anniversary of her father's death, who was killed in a car accident. She doesn't want to be alone with her mom tonight, with all the memories flooding in. Roger informs Phillip that he is going to ask Donna to marry him this evening.. The brothers have only themselves, coming from a divorced family.But Phillip heart felt sad as he was going to baby brother and his only family. After dinner when Roger slips outside with Donna for the proposal, Phillip strolls into the living room and finds Mrs. Briar watching an old family Christmas video, with her late husband and two girls in the video. Mrs. Briar explains that they lost her husband and their oldest daughter Rose, in that accident. Rose suffered serious head injuries and is still in a coma. The family video showed everything he and Roger had never had growing up.Mrs. Briar told Phillip about Rose and her dream to build a place where children, too old for foster care could live while they received higher education. Phillip showed interest in the story and offered to drive Mrs. Briar over to see Rose, on Christmas Eve. After seeing Rose at the nursing home, Phillip refused to believe that this was Rose's fate. He told Mrs. Briar that maybe he could make Rose's dream for a youth center become a reality. Then when she woke up she could carry on with the dream.Phillip then starting visiting Rose every night after work, and telling her everything about his life. For once in his life he could start to see the possibilities in life.And then her eyes opened...she was out of the coma, after fifteen months. Now Rose had to get better for Donna's upcoming wedding. She had to learn to walk all over again. Rose tells Phillip that she has dreams about him and can recall events from his childhood.Phillip has missed out so much in his life, but he didn't want Rose to miss out on hers.Always keep a dream in your heart... A definite 4 star rating.