I'm finding myself completely enthralled by Sara Donati's
Wilderness series. I read
Fire Along the Sky in one of those "can't put it down" phases. The 4th book in the series follows the grown children of the characters from the first book. I'm finding that I enjoy the characters and stories more with each book. There aren't any main characters that I don't like and, as I always hope, the bad guys more or less got what they deserved and the good guys more or less got what they deserved. The story was a fantastic pace and had just enough intrigue to keep it moving without being overwhelming and confusing. I want to move onto the next book, but I think I might deviate from the series and move into the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel (of which I have already read the first three).
Fire Along the Sky was a great book to have on the plane rides to and from Halifax, but I found myself closing the last chapter just as we were taking off leaving Calgary for Regina. I hadn't had the foresight to load up the next book before I left for the maritimes, so I was left wondering what to read. I had loaded
the Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud by Ben Sherwood and was meaning to pick it up, so I tested the waters by checking out the length of the chapters. Pleasingly short! I started it on the plan ride on Tuesday and finished it this evening. The story is about a boy who is in a terrible car crash with his brother. Both die in the crash but Charlie is brought back by a first responder (trust me, not a good part of the book to read in public...I had a really hard time not crying on the plane and I do try not to be that crazy person who cries in public places while reading...that person always seems a little unstable). The long and short of it, without ruining anything, is that years later he meets a girl, has a perfect date with her and then finds out she has been lost at sea. It was a good story, if not a little bizarre. It reminded me quite a lot of Nicholas Sparks books and was somewhat predictable though still a good read. One random thought though: the cover doesn't really fit the story. Anyway, it was still a good read. I'm debating whether I want to watch the movie. I'm not sure how I feel about Zac Effron as Charlie...
I'm finding myself completely enthralled by Sara Donati's Wilderness series. I read Fire Along the Sky in one of those "can't put it down" phases. The 4th book in the series follows the grown children of the characters from the first book. I'm finding that I enjoy the characters and stories more with each book. There aren't any main characters that I don't like and, as I always hope, the bad guys more or less got what they deserved and the good guys more or less got what they deserved. The story was a fantastic pace and had just enough intrigue to keep it moving without being overwhelming and confusing. I want to move onto the next book, but I think I might deviate from the series and move into the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel (of which I have already read the first three). 
Fire Along the Sky was a great book to have on the plane rides to and from Halifax, but I found myself closing the last chapter just as we were taking off leaving Calgary for Regina. I hadn't had the foresight to load up the next book before I left for the maritimes, so I was left wondering what to read. I had loaded the Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud by Ben Sherwood and was meaning to pick it up, so I tested the waters by checking out the length of the chapters. Pleasingly short! I started it on the plan ride on Tuesday and finished it this evening. The story is about a boy who is in a terrible car crash with his brother. Both die in the crash but Charlie is brought back by a first responder (trust me, not a good part of the book to read in public...I had a really hard time not crying on the plane and I do try not to be that crazy person who cries in public places while reading...that person always seems a little unstable). The long and short of it, without ruining anything, is that years later he meets a girl, has a perfect date with her and then finds out she has been lost at sea. It was a good story, if not a little bizarre. It reminded me quite a lot of Nicholas Sparks books and was somewhat predictable though still a good read. One random thought though: the cover doesn't really fit the story. Anyway, it was still a good read. I'm debating whether I want to watch the movie. I'm not sure how I feel about Zac Effron as Charlie...