Motherless

Erin Healy knows exactly how to lead us throughout the book, and follow the dramatic and moving story of a broken family.In this life full of lies, they must discover important values but the way it's not so easy to take.

Motherless is a unique story. It is narrated in the first person. The character moves from one scenario to another in a very strange way -as a ghost- and makes us wonder the reason why the character is in that state. Besides being the story of a mother, is that of a broken family living wrapped in a web of lies; and in the hour of truth, it will not be easy to accept, and what's more: forgiving.

The story is very dramatic and poignant, yet full of suspense and surprises. In the book there are many twists in the plot, that you can't speculate what's going to happen next.

If you've read any books by Erin Healy, you know that she has a particular and poignant way of telling things. Her novels always touch the heart, because you can identify some point in your life in the book.

Since the family is the center of the whole story, the issues it raises are very deep and I think it applies to anyone who feels that their family bond is riddled with lies. But Erin Healy, not satisfied with showing us the problems also leads us to a solution where we learn that all situations that seem torment us, have a solution.

I recieved a free eBook from BookLookBloogers but this fact didn't influence the review.

NOTE: I did not see this synopsis of the book, if I had, I am fairly certain that I would have never requested the book, however, I read the below synopsis, which intrigued me to be a mysterious suspense novel of a Dystopian type novel:

A whispering voice at the back of my mind reminds me that I've been this way for some time. Dead, that is.

The dead have a very broad view of the living, of actions performed out of sight, of thoughts believed to be private. I would know. Losing both parents is a trial no child should endure, and Marina and Dylan have endured enough. They deserve the one thing I could never give them: a mother's love.

A mother's love, and the truth.

My children have believed a lie about me for years and years. After all this time I can still feel their hurt in my heart. But the tether holding me to them is frayed from years of neglect . . . and I have to find a way to make my confession before it snaps.

But when the truth comes out, what other beasts will I unleash?

“Why do we lie to the children?” someone asked me once.

“To protect them,” I answered.

How terrible it is that they need protection from me.

My Review:

I can review most of the novels I read with one word, and this one falls into the category: weird. I don't even know how to begin this review. If you read my note on the two different synopsis' and are familiar with dystopian-type novels, then you can probably understand how the synopsis that I first read(2nd listed) of which I received directly from the publicist, could easily mean being dead to anything, I had no idea that it was literal....You wanna talk about weird, this book is written in the mother who committed suicide's point of view....and she's dead, apparently a ghost or angel, I'm not sure what the author meant because I couldn't get into this book long enough to finish it. But you know that she is some sort of spirit because she explains very vividly that she cannot touch anything in the physical world, like she's a wisp of air.

Aside from being weird, this book was pretty boring to be a suspense novel. Yea it opens with a car accident, but the author doesn't make a big deal about it, she just makes the mother go on about her business like it never happened. I got over halfway into the book and still I didn't read anything that I would consider suspense worthy, a few mild action scenes yes, but no suspense. I'm afraid that the only thing I can praise this author on is her writing style, it's beautiful and I loved reading her sentences just because of the way she worded it. But, I just couldn't get into this particular story and because I've heard several people say that this is her best, I will probably not be reading any other book by Healy. I really tried to get into this book, but it just wasn't for me.

“I received this book from the author/publisher for the purpose of this review. All comments and opinions are my own.”