A review by andrea0301
One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper

4.0

This was one of those books I saw a friend had read and trusting our similar book interests decided to give it a go despite never hearing about the author beforehand. This was a pleasant surprise. The main character is a loveable loser, a forty something guy who had a minor hit with his rock band in his 20's and rode that for many years(although he mainly plays at weddings and bat/bar mitzvahs now), but never quite grew up or got his act together. Now, a medical issue leads him to re-evaluate his life. This guy was some version of a few exes of mine (although minus the minor rock star bit). It was interesting to have a male character and especially someone as flawed as this one. He simply has made a lot of shoddy decisions in his life and that just makes him all the more real. The only minor bit I disliked was Rich; he simply was too much of a do-gooder for me; are there really people like that in this world that are that forgiving/accepting? Nonetheless, I also enjoyed how the ending was left open-ended, leaving us the readers to decide what happened exactly. A great read, something I would recommend to others, and I will be checking out the author's other books.