Have you ever read a book and then as you continued reading it , have had the thoughts of "I am still confused" cross through your mind ? For me, that was this book. Even now days later, I am still a tad confused about the storyline of this book and what it was supposed to mean. As it starts off introducing Melody - a mother who has just gone back to work after her youngest daughter Renee was found dead and her funeral has been etc. The mother then blanks out and the story goes back in time and Melody is visited by Renee's ghost and told to move forward and forgive Uncle Michael. Here , we wonder whether Uncle Michael was a good guy or not and I wondered if he had anything to do with the reason Renee died. Then it moves back in time to when Melody first met her husband nicknamed Winch and then forward to her husband's younger brother dying and then his ghost "Jamie" visiting the girls Renee and her sister Kayla throughout the years. Renee heads down a rocky road of schizoaffective disorder and it doesn't help being haunted by the ghost of "Jamie" and Kayla secretly dates a baseball player called Baron. Years later, Kayla has two children and her sister's death is still hanging over here and we read as Kayla will make a choice to either stay in the land of the living or cross over to the land of the dead ? As I said readers, this was a hard book to review and write about and is one of those novels that you won't be able to put down and not because it's so tres amazing but purely for the fact that you want to continue reading it just to make sure you are following the storyline correctly or that you understand what is going on.
This book is one of those reads, where if you have time to sit and concentrate then read it, but if you are in the mood for something quick and light and fluffy then this isn't the book for you.
Readers, challenge yourself and check out "The Hardest Thing in this World" by Nicole Eva Fraser.