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Guardian Angels #1
Escaping Eternity
Book by Lane, Lainy
232 pages, Paperback
First published May 7, 2013
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Lainy Lane
10 books19 followersLainy Lane is a girl that loves to keep her head in the cloud and attempts to still keep her feet on the ground. She has a severe addiction to coffee, tea, and Harry Potter and is completely awe-stricken with dragonflies. She spends her days chasing around her two crazy kids and getting in as much reading and writing as she can fit into the hectic mom life!
Lainy writes Fantasy and loves main characters that don't accept their "given" destiny and instead decide to make their own way!
Lainy writes Fantasy and loves main characters that don't accept their "given" destiny and instead decide to make their own way!
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July 10, 2013
Grace, a toddler that has a fatal illness, has been called home to live with the Lord. Her parents are faced with what no parent should have to face... the loss of a child. I picked up this book because I have recently lost a child. My daughter was born sleeping. I am so thankful that I took the time to read Escaping Eternity.
As I was reading this book, I found a new hope that I have been longing for. This book is very well written. There are two different perspectives within this book; earth and heaven. Throughout the book the reader feels the pain that Grace's mother endures with the loss of her daughter. The reader is brought into an entirely different world with the views of Grace in heaven after her death.
I loved this book and I am impatiently waiting the next book within the series to be released. This is a must read.
As I was reading this book, I found a new hope that I have been longing for. This book is very well written. There are two different perspectives within this book; earth and heaven. Throughout the book the reader feels the pain that Grace's mother endures with the loss of her daughter. The reader is brought into an entirely different world with the views of Grace in heaven after her death.
I loved this book and I am impatiently waiting the next book within the series to be released. This is a must read.
May 9, 2014
I was given a copy of this book in return for a review.
It didn't take me long to work out that this was at least inspired by a true story and I felt this added a lot to the realism of the mother's grief and pain. By far they were my favourite chapters in the book and were written incredibly well.
While I liked the chapters set in heaven, I felt there was a little bit of a strangeness to them. There was evidently some ideas about heaven that were taken from the Bible and were consistent with the Christian view of what heaven will be like, but on occasions these felt a little like they contradicted with the characters learning to be Guardian Angels, so I felt a little let down by this.
I also didn't like the ending. I had to read the last chapter a couple of times to work out what the mother and father were actually doing. The first time I read it, it sounded like they were going to buy a new house, but on reading again I guess they probably weren't, but I'm still not sure what they were getting up to and felt the endings from both points of view were incredibly abrupt. I know it's because there's a sequel, but this is one of those occasions where I really feel that it should be all in one rather than split across several stories.
So to sum up, incredibly moving and well written from an emotional perspective, but a bit confused by the plot and what the author is trying to say from the fiction side of things.
It didn't take me long to work out that this was at least inspired by a true story and I felt this added a lot to the realism of the mother's grief and pain. By far they were my favourite chapters in the book and were written incredibly well.
While I liked the chapters set in heaven, I felt there was a little bit of a strangeness to them. There was evidently some ideas about heaven that were taken from the Bible and were consistent with the Christian view of what heaven will be like, but on occasions these felt a little like they contradicted with the characters learning to be Guardian Angels, so I felt a little let down by this.
I also didn't like the ending. I had to read the last chapter a couple of times to work out what the mother and father were actually doing. The first time I read it, it sounded like they were going to buy a new house, but on reading again I guess they probably weren't, but I'm still not sure what they were getting up to and felt the endings from both points of view were incredibly abrupt. I know it's because there's a sequel, but this is one of those occasions where I really feel that it should be all in one rather than split across several stories.
So to sum up, incredibly moving and well written from an emotional perspective, but a bit confused by the plot and what the author is trying to say from the fiction side of things.
July 10, 2013
I read this book recently and quite enjoyed it. aside from some editing , the phrase is "for all intents and purposes, not for all intensive purposes, I thought it handled a difficult subject quite well. While I have not had to deal with this situation directly, my daughter has, and I felt it would be worthwhile for any one dealing with the loss of a child to read the book. I can't say I would agree with the author's views of the afterlife, but that is what makes reading so fun, we can disagree on different aspects of life/afterlife, yet still enjoy the viewpoint put forth by the author. I will be looking for the 2nd book!
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