Lisa C. Hinsley is a new author to me, she has several titles out and I enjoyed this book so much I have downloaded two and got samples of the others! (got to love ebook for that function alone).
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What a beautiful dedication and thoughts shared at the
beginning of the book.
The first chapter damn near broke my heart. How LCH has managed
to write so eloquently, yet factually about such an emotional subject with
clear personal touches really pricked at my eyes.
Her main character is Kath, and Kath has terminal bowel cancer. The
premise of the story is she is offered that elusive cure via a pod from the
future, or does she?
Some really great explanations of the torment that is simply waiting
for a call back, a simple text message of hope.
The way that LCH describes the horrific side effects of the
chemo and how it wrecks your body; I was almost signing up for the The Moon Walk.
The descriptive writing style of LCH goes into overdrive as
she puts you at the door to a church, then inside and finally next to the “pod” of dreams. I found the odd bit of dark humour in this
book and this was one of those times as Kathy starts to think that Janie, her
potential savior, is a mercy serial killer!
As if poor Kath doesn’t have enough in her own life to deal
with she desperately tries to help her childhood friend, who has debilitating depression.
Surely that should be the other way around? Another reason this book feels so
real life and not just a story, nothing is perfect.
This element of the book really made me think about disease
and all its forms. Just because we can’t see the disease does it make it not
real? I was very torn as to which friend was suffering more.
An “interesting” observation regarding cancer diagnosis and
its treatment that I had never thought of was the impact getting well has on
your family and friends. What others try to shield from you as you are the “sick”
one.
Kath constantly struggles with not being able to fix, cure
or care enough about those around her to the point where I was getting annoyed
at Kath expecting the pod to fix all the problems not only in her life but in
the world, some things should not be fixed.
But is cancer the cause of that selfishness or is it just
life?, do we need permission to love our selves first in life?
As things start to build to a crescendo after an interfering husband puts a spanner in the works, all hope seems at a loss, the
tension continues to mount as it’s a race to the finish line,
but which finish line?
There are some deaths along the way, some threats and
lots of high emotion. I was caught on the edge of my seat for most of this book.
The ending was a bit quick for me, I could see where the
author wanted to go, just think it could have gone a few more chapters into
explaining things. But sometimes your own imagination is better, and in this
case, only a maybe from me?
Not sure what genre this book comes under, its harrowing,
informative, a touch of sci-fi and a touch of horror.
BUT it is a book NOT be missed.
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