Review: A ROLLER COASTER RIDE OF EMOTIONS
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2013
Ordinary Joe by Andy Scott is about a terminal cancer patient who writes an online blog of his day to day life as he struggles with his illness. Joe isn’t ready to die just yet so he makes a top 10 bucket list of activities to accomplish before dying. All of this comes to the attention of a washed out, aging radio disk jockey one evening on his late night call in show. “Joe Blogs” and the love of his life Jenni who he has only seen one evening at the opening game of his favorite baseball team (bucket list) become a radio sensation.Author Andy Scott very skillfully builds the tension as each chapter progresses. Who is Joe Blogs? Who is Jenni? Will they ever meet? The chapters alternate between ever lower lows as Joe undergoes the last ditch experimental clinical trials to cure his cancer - He is frequently down for several days at a time after treatment – and the highs of joyfully ticking off items from his bucket list one by one. More and more as the story progresses we feel invested in Joe and Jenni and their happiness until it becomes almost unbearable.A beautiful love story that will pull at your heart strings. It works on every level. Well done.