Five Days Left
a novel
Julie Lawson Timmer
Rating and Recommendation
Rating: 5+ teacups
Recommendations: Yes
Book Club Worthy: Yes, I am putting it on my
book club calendar.
Review
Is 5 days enough time
to say goodbye to the ones you love?
This novel had me so caught up in it from the first words
that I forgot it was fiction. I cried probably a quarter of the way through the
book. I would have to say that it was worth the emotional rollercoaster and the
at times desperately sad parts for the story in its entirety. The plot was so
unique to take Mara and Scott down two drastically different roads yet
intertwined so smoothly. Both story lines came down to the wire and Ms. Timmer
held her cards quite closely about the final results for Mara and Scott.
Timmer definitely deserves a 5+ for this riveting work that
at times shows such love and such heartbreak that it does feel like a true
story as you are reading it. For me, when a fiction work reads as nonfiction
there is nothing better an author can achieve in fiction. If this is her first
offering, I am anxiously awaiting novel number two. So, if you can take some
serious love, serious heartache, are willing to face the possibility of crying,
and willing to see what people may do for those they love, then this may be one
of the best reads you will ever experience.
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