This book brought back lot of memories and emotions from my own past.The little Jack was the little 'me' in childhood. Scott was me in youth, and Happy Kathy character is who I feel I am now.
The little Jack life made me wonder if I told the author how it exactly feels in the truck with such confident, sure about his super driving skills, drinking dad--happy, confused, proud, worried... or does every such child get same feelings? If you don't have one of your parents or both, that's completely different feeling from how it feels in complete, yet incomplete family. I could not hold tears back many times during reading this book, but these simple few sentences "“When I was young and you weren’t there, I wondered if I was the reason... Other kids told me about things they did with their dad. You know what I did? I lied and made up stories about what we did even though you stayed out drinking all night" did their best for downpour.
At the beginning it felt that this book would be more pleasant read for Summer time holidays. Too warm and bit slow for busy Winter. But when it takes speed in action you forget about the season.
Something interesting and new to me is, that author does not much development in characters, instead, does great job in developing reader's interest toward characters. The way he describes the feelings in every event is pretty proper. Even when Sam was about to give birth and Jack, trying to comfort her, I thought, here the author will surely fail. No matter how much you love, in such pain it'd annoy any woman. It'd not be pleasant to reply. He is a guy, he can't know how it feels. But even here author bet my doubt about his skills of perception in just a second.
And no, there's nothing 'too good to be true' in here. Not too much 'I love you's...Yes, now things like contravention of strict rules of shared responsibilities, such as, changing diapers, washing dishes, taking trash out etc. are already serious issues for fair divorce-- but that does not mean, that unconditional love, that leads to hope, patience, acceptance, forgiveness, is a fairytale with unhappy ending. These are more real and more powerful natural rules of human heart, than all made up ones, that most of us follow and believe in. And the author does great job in telling magical affect of those powers in his story as simple as it really is, but the way it touches deep.
This is second book I read after LIKE by Bart Hopkins, and already am pretty interested in his writing stile. Will surely check more books from this author.
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