Click to purchase! Publisher: Park Row Books
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Source: Publicist
Genre: Womens Fiction
Rating: 4 bookmarks
Synopsis: Meg Pepper has a fulfilling career and a happy family. Most days she's able to keep it all together and glide through life. But then, in one unalterable moment, everything changes.
After school pickup one day, she stops her car to wave a teenage boy across the street…just as another car comes hurtling down the road and slams into him.
Meg can't help but blame herself for her role in this horrific disaster. Full of remorse, she throws herself into helping the boy's family as he rehabs from his injuries. But the more Meg tries to absolve herself, the more she alienates her own family—and the more she finds herself being drawn to the boy's father, Andrew.
Soon Meg's picture-perfect life is unravelling before her eyes. As the painful secrets she's been burying bubble dangerously close to the surface, she will have to decide: Can she forgive herself, or will she risk losing everything she holds dear to her heart?
* This book was provided by BookSparks in exchange for an honest review.
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Source: Publicist
Genre: Womens Fiction
Rating: 4 bookmarks
Synopsis: Meg Pepper has a fulfilling career and a happy family. Most days she's able to keep it all together and glide through life. But then, in one unalterable moment, everything changes.
After school pickup one day, she stops her car to wave a teenage boy across the street…just as another car comes hurtling down the road and slams into him.
Meg can't help but blame herself for her role in this horrific disaster. Full of remorse, she throws herself into helping the boy's family as he rehabs from his injuries. But the more Meg tries to absolve herself, the more she alienates her own family—and the more she finds herself being drawn to the boy's father, Andrew.
Soon Meg's picture-perfect life is unravelling before her eyes. As the painful secrets she's been burying bubble dangerously close to the surface, she will have to decide: Can she forgive herself, or will she risk losing everything she holds dear to her heart?
* This book was provided by BookSparks in exchange for an honest review.
A working mom goes to pick her daughter up from school. A classmate is waiting to cross the street; Mom goes ahead and waves him across. In that one decision, lives will irrevocably change.
So begins the story of “In This Moment”, by Karma Brown. This is Ms. Brown’s third novel, the second I’ve read, and in my opinion, it’s her best one yet. The story is told from the viewpoint of Meg, the mother, who is just a normal working mom, trying to make all of the dots connect for her and her family in their work, school, and home lives. She makes the decision to take a couple of extra seconds to let the young man pass, and that one moment changes the lives of everyone in her orbit.
So begins the story of “In This Moment”, by Karma Brown. This is Ms. Brown’s third novel, the second I’ve read, and in my opinion, it’s her best one yet. The story is told from the viewpoint of Meg, the mother, who is just a normal working mom, trying to make all of the dots connect for her and her family in their work, school, and home lives. She makes the decision to take a couple of extra seconds to let the young man pass, and that one moment changes the lives of everyone in her orbit.
Ms. Brown knocked it out of the park by writing a story about a woman who the reader can sympathize within one moment, and loathe the next (but secretly root for her too). Meg was such a multidimensional character that I had no difficulty really feeling what she was going through. Many of her decisions I may not agree with, but I could absolutely understand how the events unfolded. However, she was so humanized too. She’s just your normal, run of the mill middle aged married mom who is harried, is struggling to keep it all together, and is in one of those phases of her marriage that she doesn’t really feel connected to her husband anymore. I mean, really, who hasn’t been there, done that, right?
Which segues into my next thought: although this book’s focal point is the accident, it does also have an element of ‘the grass is greener on the other side’ sort of connotation. And really, what human being who has been in a committed and loving relationship hasn’t at one time or another thought, “I wonder if…”
Like I said, this book is so multi-faceted that it’s hard to put into words the great story hidden within its pages.
This woman’s fiction is one that you would be amiss not to pick up. It was a fairly quick read, but I found myself putting the book down just to savor the story being told. If you’re a fan of Nicholas Sparks, Jane Green, or Kristin Hannah’s earlier works, this book just might be your cup of tea.
Which segues into my next thought: although this book’s focal point is the accident, it does also have an element of ‘the grass is greener on the other side’ sort of connotation. And really, what human being who has been in a committed and loving relationship hasn’t at one time or another thought, “I wonder if…”
Like I said, this book is so multi-faceted that it’s hard to put into words the great story hidden within its pages.
This woman’s fiction is one that you would be amiss not to pick up. It was a fairly quick read, but I found myself putting the book down just to savor the story being told. If you’re a fan of Nicholas Sparks, Jane Green, or Kristin Hannah’s earlier works, this book just might be your cup of tea.
