The following will contain a few spoilers. This book is completely unrealistic and the worst one in the series I read so far. This book moved a little more slowly than the first two, but was still enjoyable. The theme of forgiveness and understanding pervaded Wick's always strong faith thread. The Beckett family were a wonderful support system for her as she tried to get Paul back on his feet. Faith-filled, strong, and determined, in his presence, she let the ugly things he said and did go over her head even though they were often hurtful. Paul had such a strong faith, and I really lost patience with him as he fought against God and everyone else. Abigail Finlayson, a young widowed nurse, is sent by his family to help him recuperate. He suffers a serious accident while felling a tree and breaks an arm and both legs. As a pastor, Paul should have been able to handle this but he turns to anger with God and man separates from his family and heads to Canada to work as a lumberjack. Paul lost his wife shortly after their marriage to a illness she had fought since childhood. Written with a loving style, encompassing compassion and tolerance for all people, and something out-of-the-ordinary, The Long Road Home by author West Hand will become a favorite among children just beginning to enjoy the fantastical events bestowed in fictional books.Book 3 in the A Place Called Home series continues the saga of the Cameron family focusing on Paul the youngest of the brothers. That latter example is at a time the girls took the long road home which is the root-cause to the effect of so much change. It shows love, both the parents of the adopted girls and the deceased parents of these little girls, always watching over them while they are growing up, and how the spirits of the dead parents reveal themselves at the right time. Children want to have stories which challenge their minds to comprehend new events, and this book definitely is a “reach” for a bed-time fantasy. Along with the very artfully crafted illustrations, which are necessary to help readers’ imaginations grasp the story-line, this book will open slightly different meanings to many readers. On my second reading of this book, I knew what to expect and wanted to dive deeper into the morals and philosophy West Hand embedded, and I must say with each reading now I tend to see new things. In two words, it is very “creatively unique.” With a variety of deeply rooted themes of inter-racial couples, adoption of babies (due to their birth-parents dying), school, weather, and of course, the coincidental circumstances of walking on the other side of the street causing fate to unfold in a new and unpredictable way, The Long Road Home will open the readers’ minds like Jack & Jill couldn’t imagine more like a Lewis Caroll book without the personified rabbit or fanciful characters. In short, it is the genre of a book Rod Serling would most likely love to have read to his daughter at bedtime. It brings in a cast of ordinary characters, such as a school teacher, then spices it up with angels, while toying with the element of time travel itself – as an old man becomes a young child – and finally having the girls take a ride in a rocket and seeing a type of UFO as they frolic on a new and distant planet. How they got there and what they encountered along the way will fill the imaginations of children in a loving way. It begins with such an ordinary day in the life of these little girls Sky, along with her sister Ocean, walking to school – and frankly ends up as Sky and Ocean are on a new planet somewhere far off in the Universe. I must say The Long Road Home, by author West Hand is unlike any story I have ever read.
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