Review of Clara's Way
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Review of Clara's Way
[Following is a volunteer review of "Clara's Way" by Roberta R. Carr.]
In the early 1900s, a young adult, born, raised, and nurtured in the countryside of the world, had a sudden and drastic change of scenery when her elder brother answered President Roosevelt's call for workers to build the Panama Canal, but after a few months got fatally ill and was in dire need of help. Clara who is a hardworking nurse, loving, caring, and devoted daughter, sister, and friend lives in Ohio, with her family and earns her living by taking care of and nursing her neighbors alongside her employer whom she calls Doc. She lives a calm and relatively easy, routine life which all changes when her brother falls ill whilst in pursuit of his dreams in Panama. She visits Panama in its hazardous state risking her health and well-being to save her brother, who initially does not survive. While trying to save her brother she also becomes a victim of Panama's many diseases but quickly recovers. This life-altering experience then leads her to make a life-changing decision to stay and help rid Panama of its complications so the thousands of people that live and works there don't end up with the same faith as her brother. With her faith in God, Clara takes on new challenges, makes hard decisions, finds love, experiences heartbreak, etc. Will Clara achieve her goal and help all the workers and civilians of Panama? Or will she succumb to the hardships of her new life and go back home?
Clara's Way by Roberta R. Carr is well written and fully researched. Written in the first-person narrative, every scenery is fully descriptive as if you are the one experiencing it, making it very easy to read. Mostly based on real-life people, each character progressed gracefully. Most scenarios were what happened in President Roosevelt's attempt to build the canal and Roberta R. Carr did an excellent job putting a fictional twist to it without changing the facts. The story flowed effortlessly and was very engaging.
Not many errors were found during my read. It is a very interesting book in my opinion and I was only in a rush to read to find out what happens next and figure out how the story unfolds. My only problem was that it ended too quickly, I wouldn't have minded a next chapter or two, there was something very important for me to know and see the outcome of but it was not mentioned in the last chapters which kind of made me sad but it was overall a great book, I don't regret reading and I wouldn't mind an epilogue or a sequel.
This book is very engaging, very entertaining, and very informative. The author did a splendid job with this one. Though the ending disappointed me a bit, it also left room for the imagination and gave us the readers the option to pick our own ending, which is lovely. It was professionally edited, I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. It is most definitely one of my favorites.
I would recommend this book to anyone with an open mind, or anyone that doesn't mind a good back-in-the-day themed book. This book is definitely for people interested in history. It doesn't matter what age, Clara's Way is pretty much for anyone.
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In the early 1900s, a young adult, born, raised, and nurtured in the countryside of the world, had a sudden and drastic change of scenery when her elder brother answered President Roosevelt's call for workers to build the Panama Canal, but after a few months got fatally ill and was in dire need of help. Clara who is a hardworking nurse, loving, caring, and devoted daughter, sister, and friend lives in Ohio, with her family and earns her living by taking care of and nursing her neighbors alongside her employer whom she calls Doc. She lives a calm and relatively easy, routine life which all changes when her brother falls ill whilst in pursuit of his dreams in Panama. She visits Panama in its hazardous state risking her health and well-being to save her brother, who initially does not survive. While trying to save her brother she also becomes a victim of Panama's many diseases but quickly recovers. This life-altering experience then leads her to make a life-changing decision to stay and help rid Panama of its complications so the thousands of people that live and works there don't end up with the same faith as her brother. With her faith in God, Clara takes on new challenges, makes hard decisions, finds love, experiences heartbreak, etc. Will Clara achieve her goal and help all the workers and civilians of Panama? Or will she succumb to the hardships of her new life and go back home?
Clara's Way by Roberta R. Carr is well written and fully researched. Written in the first-person narrative, every scenery is fully descriptive as if you are the one experiencing it, making it very easy to read. Mostly based on real-life people, each character progressed gracefully. Most scenarios were what happened in President Roosevelt's attempt to build the canal and Roberta R. Carr did an excellent job putting a fictional twist to it without changing the facts. The story flowed effortlessly and was very engaging.
Not many errors were found during my read. It is a very interesting book in my opinion and I was only in a rush to read to find out what happens next and figure out how the story unfolds. My only problem was that it ended too quickly, I wouldn't have minded a next chapter or two, there was something very important for me to know and see the outcome of but it was not mentioned in the last chapters which kind of made me sad but it was overall a great book, I don't regret reading and I wouldn't mind an epilogue or a sequel.
This book is very engaging, very entertaining, and very informative. The author did a splendid job with this one. Though the ending disappointed me a bit, it also left room for the imagination and gave us the readers the option to pick our own ending, which is lovely. It was professionally edited, I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. It is most definitely one of my favorites.
I would recommend this book to anyone with an open mind, or anyone that doesn't mind a good back-in-the-day themed book. This book is definitely for people interested in history. It doesn't matter what age, Clara's Way is pretty much for anyone.
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Clara's Way
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