Book: The Shadow Wife
Autbor: Diane Chamberlain
Pages: 432
This is my 49th read for the year
This is the story of Joelle. When she was a baby, she almost died. A woman who had been staying with a friend on the compound where her family lived, saved her life and then disappeared. Years later, when one of Joelle's best friends suffers an aneurysm after she delivers her baby, her parents tell her to reach out to the healer that saved her life all those years ago. Joelle is reluctant - as a Social Worker who deals with life and death of children every day, she doesn't believe in such things. But she will do anything to save her friend, even as she deals with her own personal turmoil.
I am plowing through audiobooks right now with the amount of yard work we are doing. And I think a few light books are just what I need as I work. This is definitely another beach read. Fluffy, and short on depth, it passes the time. I liked the backstory of the healer and her family, and figured out the truth of that group of people pretty quickly. The ending was just okay. I didn't like the turn it took once the truth of the healer came to light - seemed a little too far fetched (even for a novel wiht a bit of magical realism).
Stars: 3
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