Title: Sara's Laughter
Author: Tom Milton
Length: 196 pages
Publisher: Nepperhan Press LLC
Genre: Fiction, Religious fiction
Source: Goodreads Giveaway
My Rating:
Synopsis (from Goodreads): Sara, a woman in her
mid-thirties, is trying unsuccessfully to get pregnant. Her hope is kept
alive by a dream in which she hears God tell her husband that she will
have a baby. When something unexpected happens it looks as if her dream
will come true, but when her plan is thwarted Sara discovers a side of
her nature she never imagined.
My Review:
I
received this book as an ARC from Goodreads. I really wanted to like
this book but I just couldn't. I will start by saying that I am not a
Catholic and this book relies heavily on the basis of Catholic faith. I
am also very aware of and active in the adoptive community which is
also a subject depicted in this book, not in the best of lights. The two
previously stated facts mean that I might not be the best person to
review this book.
However with that said, I did not find this
book an enjoyable read. This book hit on many serious topics none of
which were properly fleshed out. The characters were two dimensional
and very stereotypical. I found myself actively disliking all of the
characters. The story jumped around in time in a way that was not
logical to me. The writing also caused me to need to re-read many
sentences because the author would put a comment in quotations as part
of a conversation and then follow it with "but I didn't say that". I was
very ready for this story to end and end it did in a very tidy, pretty
little package that was very unfulfilling and unrealistic.
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