Badly injured after a fall, prima
ballerina, Sasha Davis, returns to her home town practically hiding
in her deceased mother's house. Angry, depressed, and in pain she is
a difficult person to be around. Evelyn Burt, an irrepressible
nineteen-year-old, wants to be on her own out of her parents house.
She's opted not to go to college, which is a major disappointment for
her parents, and she's engaged to a boy they don't like. Sasha hires
Evelyn to be her assistant and the lives of the two women begin to
intertwine, each helping the other in small, but eventually,
life-changing ways.
This book is a very nice story about
normal people, people you might know. If you want to immerse yourself
in someone elses' not too threatening life, this is probably the book
for you. Personally, I found the opening very slow going. We don't
find out what Sasha's problems are, besides the injury, for many
pages. If the author were building suspense, it would be one thing,
but this seems more like an inability to get to the point of the
story. My thought was that perhaps the story should start somewhat
later, perhaps when Sasha starts rehab and begins to take a more
active part in her life rather than being a petulant invalid.
While the women in the story were
fairly believable, I found the male characters poorly done. Donald is
so nice, it's hard to believe anyone could be that wonderful. Jason
is somewhat more real, but again he doesn't come across as a full
person. I can recommend this book only if you like pretty stories
with a happy ending.
I reviewed this book as part of the
Amazon Vine Program.
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