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Ashes of Life, by Erica Lucke Dean, Laura M Kolar
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Married for just three months, Alex Barrett is stunned when her husband, David, dies in a tragic accident. And the absolute last thing the pregnant young widow wants is to take on responsibility for his teenage daughter, Maddie. Reeling from loss, Alex struggles to deal with her grief and her troubled stepdaughter, but one question haunts her: why was David with his ex-wife when he died? All Maddie Barrett wanted was for her parents to get back together, but an icy road took that dream away. Afterward, Maddie is riddled with guilt that she can’t share with anyone. Feeling angry and alone, she lays all the blame on Alex. Alex and Maddie must find a way to move past their pain—shared, yet separate. Thrown together in an untenable arrangement, they fight through a frozen landscape of sorrow and redemption while redefining love, forgiveness, and family.
Ashes of Life, by Erica Lucke Dean, Laura M Kolar- Amazon Sales Rank: #2995594 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-30
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .67" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 268 pages
Review "A beautifully rendered look at love in all its forms. A must read!" ~ Kate Moretti, New York Times Bestselling Author "An exquisite tale of love and acceptance, rich with unforgettable characters." ~ Kelly Stone Gamble, Author of They Call Me Crazy
About the Author About the Authors Erica Lucke Dean: After walking away from her career as a business banker to pursue writing full-time, Erica Lucke Dean moved from the hustle and bustle of the big city to a small tourist town in the North Georgia Mountains, where she lives in a 90-year-old haunted farmhouse with her workaholic husband, her 180 lb lap dog, and at least one ghost. When she's not writing or tending to her collection of crazy chickens and diabolical ducks, she's either reading bad fan fiction or singing karaoke in the local pub. Much like the main character in her first book, To Katie With Love, Erica is a magnet for disaster and has been known to trip on air while walking across flat surfaces. How she's managed to survive this long is one of life's great mysteries. Laura M. Kolar: Laura M. Kolar lives with her husband and daughter in a one-stop-light town in northern-lower Michigan. Though she didn't discover her love of books until she turned thirty, as a self-declared hopeless romantic, she has spent the past few years reading and writing stories with mostly happy endings. If she's not at her day-job or with her family, you will find her sipping a cup of chai latte while sitting in her favorite rocking chair, hunched over her laptop writing or spending entirely too much time on Twitter.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Even the most devastated and wounded of us can rise from the ashes By Khoth I adore beautiful cover art, and the Ashes of Life cover is one of the most surreal and mesmerizing I've seen this year. I've even coaxed and wheedled my way into getting a poster featuring the cover, because I think it is hauntingly appropriate to the story, and it will be beautiful in a complimentary frame placed on a wall I'll see on a daily basis. The old adage of not judging a book by its cover doesn't hold true here, because the story is as surreal and invokes deep emotion much like the book. The first thing I look for in novels like Ashes of Life is the "believable factor." Is the story realistic, and do the characters' personalities and internal conflicts align with their ages, situations, and stages in life?For this novel the answer is a resounding yes. Ashes of Life is absolutely believable and realistic, and even the strong language is true to life and appropriate to the storyline. Maddie is a grieving 17-yr-old teenager who's lost both of her parents, and for lack of more delicate phrasing, she is an absolute train wreck coping with her grief. A few times I wanted to throttle her for the careless decisions she made, but then I remembered burying my own mother at the age of 16, and I certainly felt like a train wreck, too. Fortunately, I had a decent high school boyfriend to keep me tethered from getting as wild as Maddie, but I still harbored rage and grief at being made an orphan overnight. Maddie's actions and responses demonstrate the reality of a teenager feeling lost and alienated, and I'm relieved when she finds her own anchor.I'm a mother, and I identified with Alex and her frustration of dealing with Maddie (and why she wasn't well-equipped emotionally to do so), and I understand the grief of losing someone you love so much you feel as though you might die from the pain of heartbreak. It resonates deeply within me, and anyone who's had a few hard knocks or many will feel the intensity of emotion in this novel. As Maddie and Alex battle internally and with one another through a series of missteps, they deal with their grief differently but are alike in that they have only a small network of real support. Ultimately, a cathartic climax finally helps them move past their differences, and although still mourning, they do find redemption in love and begin the healing process.The logistics: Ashes of Life was well-developed with three-dimensional characters who experienced more than their share of conflict, but it didn't continue ad nauseam. The misery ended at an ideal juncture, and the ending left me secure in the knowledge of hope being eternal, life continues, and even the most devastated and wounded of us all can rise from the ashes. I loved this book. Well done, Erica and Laura.Disclosure: I received this novel in exchange for an honest review.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Worth my Saturday night By Ashley Elizabeth I spent a while trying to figure out how to review this book. I'm afraid to get too wordy, but there are so many elements to it that I was surprised at how much I'd like to say. I'll start off by saying that I read it in a single night (minus a few chapters that I'd started earlier in the week, but I got sidetracked with work and kiddo, you know the deal).First of all, this might be what some call a cozy, and while I am *not* a "cozy" reader I really enjoyed this book. It is told from two points of view: the stepmother and stepdaughter... and it totally works. The emotions are so real, they jump off the page. With every chapter, I could see both sides of this story so clearly. There weren't any plot kinks thrown in to make this work, it just naturally flowed well from both sides. That really surprised me. I wasn't sure how this author would pull of being able to tell the story accurately from a 16 year-olds point of view, but every chapter, I found myself thinking, "Oh god, that was me at her age." As a stepdaughter myself, I found so much of Maddie's point of view to be completely spot on, and now as an adult, I am able to see Alex's point of view just as well with the amount of life that adults deal with on a daily basis. I am still so impressed with how well the author captured these elements.At one point, I was recalling how I felt JK Rowling's Casual Vacancy had so accurately captured character descriptions and the reality of human life... and thought this book was doing just the same, but without the Grapes of Wrath turtle narratives that make you want to skip chapters. Though, around chapter 8 (I think), I also thought that it just might be hitting too close to home. She wrote the elements of grief with such accuracy... the mourning, the feeling of bereavement, the absolute guilt... it was almost too much. Almost. But, there was redemption, and it wasn't the sloppy kind that's thrown together at the end but a gradual progression that made sense. At 4:45am as I was finishing the book up, I had tears (happy tears) brimming my eyes... I might have actually cried if I wasn't dehydrated. We'll never know.I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review, and I have to add something to this. I hate free books for reviews. They make me nervous as hell. I feel like if I have to write a bad review, then I've not only reduced an author's chance at more sales, they've also lost a sale on me since it was free to begin with. But, in this case, I feel completely happy with being given a free copy. The book is wonderful, and I really recommend it. If you are wondering why I haven't given it 5 stars, well... that's complicated. I'm usually a Young Adult reader and prefer fantasy elements. It was a very good book, not an overall classic. Though, I will say this... if you have a mixed family, I suggest that you read this. If you find yourself on either side of the line, then this book will absolutely give you insight into the mind of the other.As a side note: I should warn there are some sexual elements to this book, but none of them are explicit in any way. There is cursing, but it was used appropriately and aligned with the story and reality of life. I would have no guilt in handing this to any teenager I know.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A Look Into Love, Loss, Grief, and Redemption By Karen DeLabar ***I was given this book by the author in exchange for an honest review.***Alex just lost her husband, David, of three months to a tragic car accident leaving her with only questions of his death, and his emotionally scarred teenage daughter, Maddie, to keep her company.Ashes of Life puts all the gut wrenching, heart breaking emotions of loss and grief from two different angles, one from a heart broken, pregnant widow, and the second from the grieving, confused teenage stepdaughter, and fuses them together in a bittersweet story of love, loss, and new beginnings. The journey Alex and Maddie take to find the truth in their lives is emotionally charged and left me reeling at some points. I'm a sucker for stories that make me cry and this one did not disappoint. I found myself invested in the characters, I wanted to yell, kick, and scream for Alex, especially when she was dealing with Maddie, and I wanted to run, and rebel with Maddie.My one complaint about the story is the flow; the story follows Alex's life for one chapter then switches to Maddie's the next, and continues like that for the rest of the book. While I understand why this was done, and it did allow for me to get a deeper look inside the minds of these two, sometimes I felt it stunted the rhythm of the book, especially in the beginning. Just when I started to connect with either character in their chapter, the chapter ended and it switched to the other's perspective. I will say as the story continued it didn't seem as distracting because their stories started to meld together as the two characters learned how to deal with each other and the grief of their loss.All in all, this was an excellent read and if you're like me and love a good tear jerker then I recommend you pick up this book... and a box of tissues.
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