Wednesday 20 July 2016

On The Other Side - Carrie Hope Fletcher

Title - On The Other Side
Author - Carrie Hope Fletcher
ISBN - 9780751563146
Genre - Romance > Fiction
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Hardback
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Waterstones  - Book Depository - Amazon UK - Amazon US

Evie Snow is eighty-two when she quietly passes away in her sleep, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. It's the way most people wish to leave the world but when Evie reaches the door of her own private heaven, she finds that she's become her twenty-seven-year-old self and the door won't open.
Evie's soul must be light enough to pass through so she needs to get rid of whatever is making her soul heavy. For Evie, this means unburdening herself of the three secrets that have weighed her down for over fifty years, so she must find a way to reveal them before it's too late. As Evie begins the journey of a lifetime, she learns more about life and love than she ever thought possible, and somehow , some way, she may also find her way back to her long lost love . . .
Going into this book i decided i didn't want to read anything about it, and i wanted to go into it blind. I am so glad i did because then i experienced it with a surprise at every corner. Carrie Hope Fletcher's first fiction novel was brilliant and i cannot wait to read more.

The story was one i have personally not read before, it was about ridding yourself of your secrets before you can pass on from limbo and it flowed perfectly and was written beautifully. It had family, friendship, love, sacrifice, and companionship. It flowed off the page and filled me with hope and happiness and also sadness at times but it made me smile, it made me laugh and i really want to read more stories like this now. I will also say it is one of the best feelings to finish a book then look at the cover and realise it is all there every secret and it make me smile, because some covers have nothing to do with a book but this one is the book.

Evie, Vincent, Jim, Eddie and all the rest of the cast made this book special because all of them brought something special be it a brother/sister relationship that anyone would kill to have or someone who loves someone but sacrifices everything so they can protect their loved one. Obviously there were characters you would class as antagonists but even they brought something to the story be it if they made one of the other characters make a choice and then it impacts on the whole story.

I loved this story it had a meaning, it makes you think and it makes you appreciate everybody in your life because it is the people in your past that make you who you are in the future and this book personifies that.

Until Next Time
Happy Reading


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