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emerion's review
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Claire works as an end of life nurse because it helps her to keep moving on, and she must keep moving on. George Bellamy hires her to care for him as he tries for a reconciliation with his estranged brother. Ross has been serving in Afghanistan and returns to find his beloved grandfather facing death. I always include major spoilers (hidden), to help with my memory issues. Read them at your peril! Claire has to keep moving because as a teenager, she witnessed her foster father murdering his other 2 foster children who had found out about his crimes. As a trusted police officer he was untouchable, and every time Claire has reached out for help, people have been hurt or killed.
The story was entertaining, nothing out of the ordinary.
The story was entertaining, nothing out of the ordinary.
finallywakingup's review
3.0
This book had a lot of promise and I really liked all the characters, however as it went on it got more and more rushed and in the end the whole thing was wrapped up in just a few short scenes. I haven't minded the flashback chapters in the previous books in this series but they really distracted and took away from the current stories in this one and totally stopped the flow, it would have been much more interesting for the past to come out in other ways, reliance on the flashback is getting dull.
I ended up wishing that these stories had been told separately somehow rather than rushed through and combined meaning both lost. After getting us to feel for George and be interested in him his demise ended up being a quick mention and I didn't find the relationship between Claire and Ross to be believable because it happened so fast and was based on so little...
Will keep reading them because I do like the writing, but this one left me feeling like it could have been a lot more than it ended up being.
I ended up wishing that these stories had been told separately somehow rather than rushed through and combined meaning both lost. After getting us to feel for George and be interested in him his demise ended up being a quick mention and I didn't find the relationship between Claire and Ross to be believable because it happened so fast and was based on so little...
Will keep reading them because I do like the writing, but this one left me feeling like it could have been a lot more than it ended up being.
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