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Review by KatiRae -- Flaherty's Crossing by Kaylin McFarren
[Following is a volunteer review of "Flaherty's Crossing" by Kaylin McFarren.]
4 out of 4 stars
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Flaherty's Crossing
This book was such a delight. I don’t know what I was expecting, but this wasn’t it. This book was sweet, heartfelt and meaningful with a good dose of terror and mystery. It was really excellent.
Kate Flaherty’s life is sort of flying apart. Even though she has a successful career as an artist, and all the appearances of everything she could want, life is not very pleasant. She and her husband Drew are not getting on well, and her dad is dying. As her dad approaches the end of his life, her marriage appears to be doing the same.
Even though (or maybe because) she and her father have had a rocky relationship, Kate is still drawn to see him and speak to him before he passes on. There is a huge family scandal that she has never forgiven him for, and although she’s not sure forgiveness is what she’s after, she feels she needs the past out in the air. Unfortunately, when she arrives she finds not the man she wants to hash things out with but a shell of that man, mostly gone already with little to no lucidity left for long heart-to-hearts. When she realizes that she will get nowhere with this talk tonight, she leaves, promising to come back tomorrow and try again.
Meanwhile, Drew has left. Before he went out of town a few days ago, the two of them had fought, and as he prepared to get on the plane back home, he left an ultimatum on the answering machine. He thinks they need to take a break. When he gets home to find her gone, and proof that she knows about the message, he decided she doesn’t care anymore and he leaves. While he’s at his buddy Brian’s house, receives a message on his cellphone from Kate. What he hears changes everything.
Kate has been in a car accident and she is stranded. She was actually leaving him a message when she swerved to miss the deer, and her scream sends him rushing to her side. By the time he arrives, she has had a terrifying adventure. While looking for a place to make a call, she stumbles into an old diner. The guy working there, Mick, gives her the bad news that the phone lines are down, but luckily his wife is on the way to pick him up and they can give Kate a ride home, too. They sit and talk about a great many things, and Kate finds a picture of her mother on the wall, which brings her some comfort. After quite a while, however, Kate takes a chance to check the phone herself and discovers that it isn’t working…because it’s been unplugged.
The trials and tribulations, recognitions and discoveries, and all around emotions that create this book are remarkably well done. I would recommend this book to anyone. I definitely give it 4 out of 4 stars. It’s that enjoyable.
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4 out of 4 stars
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Flaherty's Crossing
This book was such a delight. I don’t know what I was expecting, but this wasn’t it. This book was sweet, heartfelt and meaningful with a good dose of terror and mystery. It was really excellent.
Kate Flaherty’s life is sort of flying apart. Even though she has a successful career as an artist, and all the appearances of everything she could want, life is not very pleasant. She and her husband Drew are not getting on well, and her dad is dying. As her dad approaches the end of his life, her marriage appears to be doing the same.
Even though (or maybe because) she and her father have had a rocky relationship, Kate is still drawn to see him and speak to him before he passes on. There is a huge family scandal that she has never forgiven him for, and although she’s not sure forgiveness is what she’s after, she feels she needs the past out in the air. Unfortunately, when she arrives she finds not the man she wants to hash things out with but a shell of that man, mostly gone already with little to no lucidity left for long heart-to-hearts. When she realizes that she will get nowhere with this talk tonight, she leaves, promising to come back tomorrow and try again.
Meanwhile, Drew has left. Before he went out of town a few days ago, the two of them had fought, and as he prepared to get on the plane back home, he left an ultimatum on the answering machine. He thinks they need to take a break. When he gets home to find her gone, and proof that she knows about the message, he decided she doesn’t care anymore and he leaves. While he’s at his buddy Brian’s house, receives a message on his cellphone from Kate. What he hears changes everything.
Kate has been in a car accident and she is stranded. She was actually leaving him a message when she swerved to miss the deer, and her scream sends him rushing to her side. By the time he arrives, she has had a terrifying adventure. While looking for a place to make a call, she stumbles into an old diner. The guy working there, Mick, gives her the bad news that the phone lines are down, but luckily his wife is on the way to pick him up and they can give Kate a ride home, too. They sit and talk about a great many things, and Kate finds a picture of her mother on the wall, which brings her some comfort. After quite a while, however, Kate takes a chance to check the phone herself and discovers that it isn’t working…because it’s been unplugged.
The trials and tribulations, recognitions and discoveries, and all around emotions that create this book are remarkably well done. I would recommend this book to anyone. I definitely give it 4 out of 4 stars. It’s that enjoyable.
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Flaherty's Crossing
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