THE LIFE INTENDED is going to pull at your heart strings
from the very
first chapter. I cried a few times while reading and to be
honest, I feel like I
have a book hangover. I was wrecked when I was finished
and I know you
will be too. I read Kate's story in an afternoon and
could do nothing else
until I finished. I was hooked from the very first page.
THE LIFE
INTENDED is one of the very best books I have read in 2014
and Kristen
Harmel is now on my must read radar.
Kate has these dreams about Patrick, who was her husband,
that she can't
understand and she tries to get past them but they are so
real. She at
first thinks it's stress or her not so perfect
relationship leading her to
imagining this other life. The life she knew she was
supposed to have if it
hadn't been turned upside down over ten years ago. Her
dreams are really
vivid, and somehow she knows details about this other life
(the life she was
intended to have) that she couldn't possibly know. The
discoveries she
makes in these "dreams" cause Kate to take sign language
classes and
learn more about New York foster system. As she learns
more about the
life that could've been, Kate starts to question the real
world, and whether
she's living a life with intent, or just floating along.
I loved the beautiful combination and balance of love,
romance, heartache,
anger, hope and pain that Kristen Harmel incorporated
along with
introduction to music therapy, American Sign Language and
the Deaf
community. The characters are real and you feel like
you've known them for
years - I was immediately pulling for Kate.
THE LIFE INTENDED is a
captivating novel about the struggle to overcome the past
when our
memories refuse to be forgotten. In this richly told story
Kristin Harmel
weaves a heart-wrenching tale that asks: what does it take
to move forward
in life without forgetting the past? When I finished
reading, I sat amongst a
huge pile of tissues and a lump in my throat that didn't
go away for quite a
long time.
From the author of the international bestseller The
Sweetness of Forgetting, named one of the Best Books of
Summer 2012 by Marie Claire magazine, comes a captivating
novel about the struggle to overcome the past when our
memories refuse to be forgotten.
In this richly told story where Sliding Doors meets P.S. I
Love You, Kristin Harmel weaves a heart-wrenching tale
that
asks: what does it take to move forward in life without
forgetting the past?
After her husband’s sudden death over ten years ago, Kate
Waithman never expected to be lucky enough to find another
love of her life. But now she’s planning her second walk
down the aisle to a perfectly nice man. So why isn’t she
more excited?
At first, Kate blames her lack of sleep on stress. But
when
she starts seeing Patrick, her late husband, in her
dreams,
she begins to wonder if she’s really ready to move on. Is
Patrick trying to tell her something? Attempting to
navigate
between dreams and reality, Kate must uncover her
husband’s
hidden message. Her quest leads her to a sign language
class
and into the New York City foster system, where she finds
rewards greater than she could have imagined.
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