Play Book Tag discussion

My review hovered while I was reading it, mostly close to 4, but the more I think about it, the more I like it and I only finished it last night, so the entire experience for me rounds up to 5.

This is a powerful, poignant novel and there is more to it than meets the eye. This book starts with the meeting of two people, a young girl selling lemonade and a stranger in town who immediately ascertains why she has a scar. It's about how they begin to connect and why, but it's about more. It's about grieving, guilt and medicine; about suffering and hope; about family, love and suffering. The stranger's wife died prior to this novel and their lives together are pivotal to the story. This is a time when going back and forth in time works beautifully. While you might predict certain things, there is no way you are going to be able to predict all of it (if you did, colour me impressed) and I even cheated and read the ending which is something I started doing when my kids were small and I had limited personal reading time.

Interestingly, the two low reviews near the top of general reviews each have the opposite problem. One dislikes the amount of detailed medical descriptions (not graphic like some and very important to this book and who the character is!) and the other who must have liked that hated the religious aspect, so bear in mind that you can have literate, educated, intelligent Christians and it would make no sense at all for Reese, the main character (all first person) to not include that, particularly given the story.

Nice review and sounds interesting! I'll add it to my TBR list! Thank you.

Patricia wrote: "Nice review and sounds interesting! I'll add it to my TBR list! Thank you."

I hope you like it!