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Review: The Whittaker Family Reunion
- By Randi Hull
- Published March 16, 2009
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Randi Hull
Reviewer Randi Hull started her career
self- publishing a few children's books and eventually her children's
story To the Moon and Back that
became quite popular. Randi has since acquired her own publishing
company, Puddle Creek Books under which she published not only her
first book, but a few fiction titles as well. She specializes in
local (Central New York) authors and has just released the
autobiograpy, Uncertain Roads by James Furney of Sherrill, NY.
Randi has written many book reviews for
various authors and she is a member of two writing associations as
well as Authors Den and Shoutlife. She is also a journalist, writing
front page business news for The Oneida Press, as well as her
own column entitled Spilled Milk featured each month in The Oneida
Dispatch. They have a special section for women in business called
Women In Motion. In short, she is a one-woman show. Click Here to learn more about Randi.
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Author: Shirley A. Roe
ISBN: 978-1-906806-51-4
Publisher: Real Time Publishing Limerick,
Ireland
The Whittaker Family Reunion is about to take
place, and Martha Whittaker is eager to have her sons home again.
While the preparations are being made, two of her children are making
their way home to St. Louis. Abraham, the kind slave doctor from the
South has begun his journey when he's interrupted by a strange
encounter which forces him to question everything in his life up to
that point. Ezekiel, the strong-headed ladies man, is making his way
from the family estate in England after an encounter of his own.
Meanwhile, tending his St. Louis farm with wife and three children,
is Isaac the man with dark eyes and a kind smile.
The
youngest of the family, Anna is a beautiful blond teen, filled with
angst, and to everyone on the outside, a spoiled unruly little wretch
of a girl. Causing her parents nothing but worry and despair, she
plots and plans with the help of her lovesick best friend. What she
doesn't know is that the mistakes of a young girl may be much
more.
As the family gathers once again, the three sons
find themselves thinking often of the past; a father who was cold,
abusive and deceitful. As they work to push away painful childhood
memories, a stranger in the woods threatens to tear apart their happy
family once and for all. With the help of their callous and
unknowing little sister, he may succeed.
I found The Whittaker Family Reunion to be an intense, yet somehow elegant thrill ride from beginning to end. Author Shirley A. Roe so precisely introduces her characters, that one feels in the very moment; on the ship with Zeke, the farm with Isaac, and longing to be the savior to so many with Abraham. As the plot thickens, you find yourself not only excited about the next page to come, but wanting to be a part of the Whittaker family. This was a fantastic edge-of-your-seat read, and I absolutely cannot wait for the next book!