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Maggie was just five years old when a tragic event took place. One that would tear her family apart. One evening several students were out partying near where Maggie lived. One moment, Maggie's mother was talking to the students and the next moment there was blood everywhere. Maggie is a high school student now. She is trying to move on with her life but it it hard when the past keeps sticking around. During an incident at school, Maggie is forced to finally face her past. I instantly fell for author, Laura Brodie after reading The Widow's Season. This is why I was excited to read All the Truth. While this book still had elements of this author's charm with poetic charm, I did feel it fell a little flat towards the end. Especially when Emma made her erappearance. I was expecting this big dramatic scene and there was nothing ro write back home about. However, I did enjoy reading this book. I had envisioned the story playing out a different way. The truth was just as ...

I am pleased that Laura Brodie , author of The Widow's Season has stopped by to chat. Widows and Sex: The Literary History The Widow’s Season not only describes the relationship between a grieving woman and her husband (is he dead or alive?); this novel also contains a love triangle that includes the husband’s younger brother, Nate. But why did I bring Nate into the story? He’s the least developed of the characters—handsome, rich, and charming, but not endowed with an interior life. In fact, both of the central male figures, David and Nate, are less fully formed than the widow, Sarah, because I wanted to focus the narrative on her mental journey. But why include a love triangle in that journey? And why make a widow, who is less than a year into her mourning, into a sexually active person? There are several reasons. First, love and sex are dynamic topics to explore in a novel, although anyone hoping for hot and heavy sex scenes should try another book. Second, I enjoy playing with t...

I want to thank Laura Brodie for sending me a copy of her book to review. It has been three months since Sarah McConnell’s husband, David was last seen alive. He went camping and kayaking. He never returned and his body was never found. Since than Sarah has been seeing David almost everywhere. First it was at the super mart, then on her front porch and finally at the cabin where David had been staying, while he was camping. Sarah evens finds herself having conversations with David as if he were alive. That can’t be possible through as David is dead or is it? David’s body has never been recovered thus far. If you found the book cover for this book as hauntingly beautiful as I did then you are going to love The Widow’s Season . Laura Brodie did a wonderful job with this novel. I had no expectations, what so ever on what I would think about this book. After reading it, I find myself still in a memorizing daze. This is a good thing. The Widow’s Season is a tragic love story that will ha...