Review: An Emotional Journey
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2014
Reviewed by RobinBook provided by the author for reviewReview originally posted at Romancing the BookMs. Marlowe delves into the world of family relationships, with complications that can arise.As this isn’t a normal genre of reading for me, I tend to stay away as most will agree this is a touchy topic and having family issues with parents, step-monsters and siblings I am not likely to want to read about someone else’s not matter how wonderful the outcome. So I stay away. Having said all that I took on some books left over by another reviewer so I wasn’t privy into what I was getting into. I randomly picked books by the name alone.Like I said not something I would normally choose I however was surprised with the storyline.Many times you run across a story that deals with broken friendships because of one friend running off with the boyfriend or husband of the other. This story deals with family and I guess that family can be just as traitorous.Madeline O’Connor has picked up her life and becomes a very successful business woman with her store ‘Felicity’ which sells lingerie. She is bitter from the past in which her sister Carrie had an affair with her husband resulting in a son, Jonathan.Carrie ends up divorcing her husband to marry her sister Madeline’s. They move to Italy, eventually she becomes divorced from Madeline husband but chooses to stay in Italy.Jonathan sends a letter to his Aunt Madeline letting her know that his mother, Carrie, has cancer and is dying.I guess no matter what when there is a tragedy, you tend to forget that bad times remembering the good or better times dropping everything to rush to your families side. Madeline was no different than anyone else. Having been betrayed she forgets and runs to her sister’s side. Oh to be so forgiving.While in Italy she becomes involved in a love triangle so to speak. She finds herself very much in love with Anthony who has to make decisions of his own.Ms. Marlow writes a story within a story that takes us between the present and the 1940’s. At first not quite sure where Marco’s story comes into play it is wrapped up and woven in with the present so smoothly at times you flip back and forth not even realizing it. It was well blended.Ms. Marlowe takes on the path to discovering ourselves in a most imperfect world. Finding where we fit it and how to deal with the all the emotional baggage that is family. Madeline finds that once she deals with the hurt and anger letting go she is able to move on to letting love and happiness once again fill her life.Ms. Marlowe reveals allot of self-discovery in her story making you step back and re-asses your own connections to family. Asking where do I fit in?Overall I found this to be a rather heavily emotional journey into discovering your own place in the world.I think anyone would find it to be an uplifting story.