Review: An Amazing story.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 10, 2012
I never read anything by this author before, but because I loved this book so much... I plan to look up for more in this series just as soon as I finish this review. I did only give this with a 4 star rating, but only because I would have loved to see an epilogue at the end. Otherwise this book is perfect!I love stories that involve a small town setting anyway. I really don't know why, other than I was raised in one myself....so I guess I can relate more to them then I can other stories that involve the big city settings.Anyway, about the story.....This story have me laughing one minute, and bawling my eyes out the next. I felt the turmoil that Leo was going through having to decide between being there for his son, and going off to a job he loves, as a major war correspondent. I'm so very glad he chose his son over his job in the end. I know he only left because he couldn't handle his wife's death, but he never once stopped to consider the impact her death had on his son. And that was so wrong.The one that I felt most sorry for was poor little Max. That poor kid just lost his mother, then he was torn away from the only home he ever knew, to move to a small town where he just didn't feel like he fit in. On top of that his dad also left him behind, while he went off to do his job overseas. So basically; to poor Max... it was like loosing two parents at once. And I don't know about any of you...but I think a 9 yr old is just a little too old to still have a grandmother bathing you. I'm sure he was quite embarrassed. I know I have a 9 yr. old grandson that would be mortified, if he even thought anyone was in the bathroom with him, little lone his grandmother.. And yes, his father came back to help him get through his problems, but for how long? Seems as though Max was always sitting on pins and needles, waiting for the day his father packed up and left him again. That is hard enough to go through for any child, so I understand completely why he started acting out.I also felt the turmoil and shame that Trinity felt, too. It's one thing to be so young and all alone, and then to find out your pregnant too? And if that wasn't bad enough, the baby's father also abandons her. I have to give her credit for having the guts to do what's right by that child. It would have been nicer if she could have done it without being judged so harshly by her picture perfect family. The way her family treated her for the last nine years, has me questioning whether or not her own family even loved her in the first place. Aren't families supposed to love & support their child unconditionally? I would have been so proud of my child for doing what was right for the child. After all; that is not a easy decision for anyone to make.Would I recommend this book? Yes, most definitely.