Review: Full of hope and perseverance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2013
When I first started reading this book, I kept waiting for the lightening to strike.  Because of the title and the cover, I figured this was going to be a tear jerker.  Surprisingly it was a book full of hope and perseverance.We meet Michael and Donna before they start dating - when they are young and the world is their oyster.  They have dreams and things they want to accomplish and when they meet, their worlds seem to mesh.  Planning on getting married and starting a new job, Michael sets out on a road trip for work which ends in disaster.  In the fog and rain, on a New Jersey turnpike, he hits a disabled car that hadn't been moved off the road properly.  As you can tell by the cover, he breaks his neck and ends up in a wheelchair.  After 8 painstaking months in the hospital, he sets out on a new course, and a new life.  He hopes to share it with Donna, but knows the life they dreamed of is now not possible.There are a lot of great quotes and inspirational sayings through out the book - the one that probably hit me the most with some things going on in my family right now was - "Remember this, the people who are the hardest to love are usually the ones that need love the most."