Review: I loved it
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2014
I just finished The Passion of Patrick MacNeill.  It is by far the best book I have read in a long time.  I read a lot.  Averaging about one book a day.  In all of them there was not that satisfying feeling of having read a great story.  Patrick is left a widow with an infant son burned in a fiery car wreck.  If you have any experience at all with burn victims you can only imagine how terrible it would be to see your infant son burned so bad.  I do have experience when my adult brother was burned and it is the most horrible of things to go through.  The treatments are torture and the recovery is long and painful. To see a small child that does not understand all that is going on is too horrible to imagine.  I heard the small children crying as they under went their treatments.Our hero, Patrick, was the most devoted of fathers.  His only concern was the well-being of his son.  After 4 years of treatments and surgeries he meets Dr. Kate.  It takes a very special person to dedicate their life to caring for burn victims.  Kate was not without issues of her own.  She had a lot of things to work through to become whole herself.This story is about that man, his son, and their new friend, Dr. Kate.  I loved it.  It was so real and you feel like you are right there with them as they struggle to do what is right for all concerned.  You will learn a lot about burn victims, their treatment , their recovery and their adjustment to being a different person.  It is a big part of the story but it does not dominate it to the point that you will shy away from it.  It is a great learning experience as you share the romance of Patrick and Kate.  I highly recommend this book.  Like me, you will go on line to order the books about the other MacNeill brothers.  Great read, can't praise it enough.  I loved it.