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Five Days Left

By: Julie Lawson Timmer
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne, Rebecca Lowman
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Mara is a successful lawyer, and devoted wife and mother. Struggling with a devastating illness, she has set herself five days to make the ultimate decision for her family.

Scott lives a thousand miles away, and is a foster parent to a troubled eight-year-old. Scott is facing his own five-day countdown until his beloved foster son is returned to his biological mother. The two connect through an online forum, and find a friendship to help guide them through the most difficult, and momentous, week of their lives.

©2014 Julie Lawson Timmer (P)2014 Random House Audiobooks Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Fiction
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There are moments that resonate with every mother in this book, I had a few tears at some & I loved Harry's character

an emotional journey for mothers

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Huntington’s Disease is an appalling monster. Timmer has contrived a credible plot & reveal structure but doesn’t have the skill as a writer to pull it off. Heavily clichéd motifs, constant repetition of scenes of pathos that read like the script from a B grade budget movie and dialogue that lacks life. Instead of individual characters coming alive Trimmer gives each stereotype the voice expected and remains the puppet master moving the characters around her story as stiffly as pieces on a chess board.
Buy something else to entertain yourself and read up on Huntingtons as a separate issue.
The narration was ok but often irritating, feeling as 2 dimensional as the script.

Disappointing & clichéd to the hilt.

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