Rescue

by Elizabeth Richards

The critically acclaimed author of Every Day returns with a dazzling new work -- as compelling as if your own life were suddenly turned upside down by the surprising, maddening, invigorating arrival of a kind of love you never expected.
Paige Austin has interesting work, a stable marriage, and a circle of women friends who help soothe the empty spot she would have filled with the child she can't conceive. Then the stepson she hardly knows, Malachi MacGowan, walks into her life. An impossibly tall, smart-talking young man, he makes her feel certifiably old -- and yet edgily, wonderfully alive.
In a few electric days, Mal and Paige seem to forge a connection neither of them can fully fathom. She is no longer childless, and Mal basks in a love unprecedented in his seventeen years. Then, as abruptly as he arrived, he stalks away -- into an existence defined by friends and activities Paige can only imagine. Left with an unraveling marriage and a wounded heart, she attempts her own kind of escape...until Mal's inevitable crisis crashes in.
With her keen eye and courageous take on the mutable faces of love, Elizabeth Richards vividly illumines how an ordinary life can change in a heartbeat -- and then change again.

Genres: Fiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1999

Reviews

[Sara Copeland · Rating 1 out of 5]

I just could NOT get into this book at all. I simply picked it up thinking I could relate to the infertility aspect and
I was looking forward to feeling some emotions… but all I felt was bored. Womp Womp. The story certainly had some potential but it just fell flat in my opinion. If it didn’t bother me so much to not finish a book, I would have given up and moved onto a more interesting read after about 50 pages 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Julie · Rating 1 out of 5]

really bad, over emotional step mother loses it when the kids come to live with her.
not a good read

[Mrsschif · Rating 1 out of 5]

I can’t finish this book. This is the most boring book I have ever tried to read. I can’t stand how it is written. The conversations are not normal every day conversations between people. The author is trying to be way too poetic and I’m sorry but people just don’t talk like that.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book, although I there were times it was difficult to follow. I really felt for Paige and Mal and the littles.

[Becky · Rating 2 out of 5]

There was great potential for an amazing story here, but the author did a poor job of pulling the reader into the story. The dialogue felt forced, there was virtually no character development and it all moved at a very strange, slow pace. But it did keep me interested to see how it would all turn out between the woman, her husband and her stepson, so it wasn't all bad.

[Tob]

Easy read, although no much excitement.