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A review by eastofreaden
Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens
5.0
"Wake in bed and know, because dreams are not true, that the sun will be shining and it will not storm today."
I haven't fallen this madly in love with a book in years. The last time I closed a book and actually missed the characters was when I read The Time Traveler's Wife about 8 years ago.
I read a previous review wherein someone referred to Addy as a "saint", but she really wasn't. She was just a genuinely good, and loving person. She was a gift to Sharla and vice-versa. They needed each other.
(Spoilers below!)
My heart couldn't handle a lot of things that happened in this beautiful book. I found myself with a lump in my chest and an ache in my stomach on numerous occasions. At certain points I had to stop, put the book down, and take a few mins (like the quick and casual way Lansens slipped into the story of Chick & Mose dying in the train accident). I wanted the book to last awhile, I didn't want it to be over, but I also NEEDED to know things (what happened to her children? what happened to her husband? will Sharla find her father?). As I finished the last page, glad I was alone because I was crying so much, I closed the book with a pain in my heart but so glad for the experience of reading it.
I haven't fallen this madly in love with a book in years. The last time I closed a book and actually missed the characters was when I read The Time Traveler's Wife about 8 years ago.
I read a previous review wherein someone referred to Addy as a "saint", but she really wasn't. She was just a genuinely good, and loving person. She was a gift to Sharla and vice-versa. They needed each other.
(Spoilers below!)
My heart couldn't handle a lot of things that happened in this beautiful book. I found myself with a lump in my chest and an ache in my stomach on numerous occasions. At certain points I had to stop, put the book down, and take a few mins (like the quick and casual way Lansens slipped into the story of Chick & Mose dying in the train accident). I wanted the book to last awhile, I didn't want it to be over, but I also NEEDED to know things (what happened to her children? what happened to her husband? will Sharla find her father?). As I finished the last page, glad I was alone because I was crying so much, I closed the book with a pain in my heart but so glad for the experience of reading it.