Review: adversity will make you stronger or it will destroy you.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2013
I found that I could not connect with the main characters, the doctors and his wife. The magic that makes me want to keep reading even if I stay up all night. That something special that makes me want to get my hands on the next book even before it is written. If no more books are coming what is going on in the lives of the people who I felt so close to. When the story ends I want to know more about the characters. They will stick in my head for days. The story itself was great. Bobby writes as if she is narrating in the first person.  As if the story was her own and she intimately knows the pain, the sadness and the blame you want to put on yourself when you lose a child.  Clover is not a perfect little girl.  Her mother has abandoned her and she acts out her pain and loneliness. With just her father to care for her she is not a loveable little person. She is not the child who can fill that empty spot and ease the hurt.  The book might have been better if this little child had been the main person in the story.  She was still able in the end to reach our heart sick and struggling mother and pull her marriage back together. She helps her to find her reason for living. Clover is the magic. I liked Clover's father. His love and patience with Clover is commendable even with all the problems he has to endure. Bobby has added an element of suspense to this romance novel that keeps you turning the pages.