Overall Take:
If you’re looking for a book to make you ponder your life choices, then grab a copy of this one.
Star Rating:
4.5 Stars
Genre:
Women’s Fiction, Book Club Read, Historical Fiction
Synopsis:
Dawn’s life changes in an instant when her plane crashes and she’s one of the few survivors.
When Dawn’s life flashes before her eyes, she sees her husband and daughter. But she also sees her first love, Wyatt, somewhere in Egypt at an ancient burial site.
When the airline offers transportation to Dawn wherever she wants to go, she reconciles her past and her present, and is faced with an astronomical decision. Will she return to a life well-lived? Or will she take on a new path?
Thoughts:
This book was great! I listened to the audio, and it was really good. I did get a little lost during some of the transitions, just because there weren’t clear markers, but it was pretty easy to pick up based on where we were at with the story. I am just a stickler for chapter markers because I tend to get a little lost, so this is just a pet peeve I have developed. It didn’t end up deterring me too much from the book though.
I am fascinated with death doulas and have read, and really enjoyed, several books with characters who were them and this book was no different. Their jobs are so important.
This book really made me stop and think about how life can take so many different directions based on choices we’ve made. It had me stopping to think about several of my choices more than once throughout the pages. It was quite the reflective read that’s for sure.
While this book was heavy in Egyptian history and mythology, it wasn’t overwhelming, and I felt that it was woven into the plot nicely. I enjoyed getting to know more about it over the course of the audio.
I did enjoy Dawn as a character, but I did feel that some of the growth she experienced was at the expense of her daughter, and I didn’t like that aspect of it. Teenagers have a pretty rough go of life as is, so for Dawn to do what she did was quite a lot. I do understand, I just don’t necessarily like it. However, I do think that the ending wrapped things up nicely and left everything in a nice spot.
Publication Date:
September 22, 2020
Author:
Jodi Picoult
Page Length:
416 pages
Publisher:
Ballantine
Thank you to:
Thank you so much to G.P. Putnam’s Sons and Netgalley for this e-arc. All thoughts are my own.
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