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How To Save A Life by Eva Carter

 


SYNOPSIS

Sometimes saving a life is only the start of the story...

It's nearly midnight on the eve of the millennium when eighteen-year-old Joel's heart stops. A school friend, Kerry, performs CPR for almost twenty exhausting minutes, ultimately saving Joel's life, while her best friend Tim freezes, unable to help.

That moment of life and death changes the course of all three lives over the next two decades: each time Kerry, Joel and Tim believe they've found love, discovered their vocation, or simply moved on, their lives collide again.

...Because bravery isn't just about life or death decisions; it's also about how to keep on living afterwards.

REVIEW

If you like the concept of One Day and Grey's Anatomy, this would definitely be the book for you. This book follows three people and what happens after the inconceivable happens. How they react at that moment and the people that they become after the years have passed.

There is heartbreak, there is great joy that makes your heart soar and moments of humour in some corners. These are young people that make mistakes, make more ones, learn from them and grow from what they have learnt. It is a full cycle of life and that is what makes it unequivocally similar to real life and what we all have to overcome through our own challenges that are thrown at us. But also what life can make and develop our personalities according to our experiences, for better or for worse.

To be honest, I didn't really have much attachment to any of the main characters in this book. I think this was done deliberately, however. These characters all have their own stories and they develop and become their own people when they are not with the main protagonists. This allows us to see these characters differently and how they function, rather than the great machine of being in one group. It can be seen as interesting yet effective how this works. 

I did enjoy this book, I loved the concept of how it started from one point in time and carried on throughout the years to see what happened to these particular characters. I wish I saw this technique a lot more in other books as it is intriguing to see what happens after the big event. Because that is real life, we have to keep moving, no matter how many mistakes we make, or how big they are, we still have to keep spinning that wheel so we can get to the next day.

RATING: **** (FOUR STARS)

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