Becoming Kate

by Dixie Owens

Liz had no idea that today would be the last day of her life. It felt like any other Saturday. She wore the same jeans she wore every weekend, wore the same color lipstick, and sat in the same Honda... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159955402X
• ISBN13: 9781599554020
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Bonneville
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL. . .CAN YOU GUESS?

This may be the author's first novel, but hopefully not her last. Gripping from start to finish, this creative, amazing story is air-tight and vacuum-packed with tears, tension, and tender love. Just be sure to keep your hankies handy. Simply put, this is the best novel my friends and I have ever read! Review by: Christine Zittle

Wonderful Read

I loved the book. I didn't want it to end and can't wait for a sequel. You won't be able to put it down or get it out of your mind until you have finished the book and then you want more. I've shared it with my friends who read it within a day or two and then we had discussions. It would make an excellent Book Club selection. One thing that sets it apart from most books is the concept of a brain transplant and whether or not it could actually become a reality some day. Dixie Owens has written an exceptional book for her debut novel and it's this readers opinion that "Becoming Kate" should be on the best sellers list. You will agree!

FABULOUS! Couldn't put it down!

The premise of the book intrigued me. As I started reading, I realized how very well written & thought out this was. It just sucks you in & I couldn't put it down. This book has so many great twists & turns. It keeps you cheering for Kate to the end. I loved the "go back" idea of keeping your memories but starting over in another body. I highly recommend this book. FIVE STARS!!!

Wow is a mild word for this great book!

We spend an enormous amount of time going over the things we should have done, ideas we could have considered, and allot reflection on the items we probably would do. But how much time to we stop and think about What If? What if we left one minute later, what if I could go back to my childhood, what if I were to wake up and nothing is the same. These are not what ifs for Liz Lindsay they are what is. Liz was a wife, mother and all around amazing person who leaves for the store and wakes up after a horrific accident to discover she has had her brain transplanted inside an 11 year-old child named Kate. The first successful brain transplant is not quite so successful because Liz remembers everything about woman she was not Kate the child she is but no one knows this but Liz. Kate has loving parents who have spent years trying to bring her back from a coma and while Liz wants Kate to remember all that comes back to Liz is her husband and children. So Liz keeps asking herself what if I had gone just one block over to the store? Liz works to recover from her surgery and makes friends with her physical therapist Marcy who learns all of Liz/Kate's secrets. Liz/Kate is supposed to have amnesia but that is not the case and now Liz/Kate is hatching a what if plan to get Marcy to be her eyes and ears around Liz's family to help her reconnect her past to the present. This is a bad plan but Marcy knows how she would feel if she were to be separated from her daughter and lets guilt rule and not her common sense. But the more Marcy learns the more Liz/Kate want to know and one reckless plan leads to another which may cost everyone their mental stability You add into this mix an overly ambitious reporter, a doctor who wants recognition as a genius in his profession and Kate's resentful brother who feels neglected along with two families learn to figure out how to live with Kate and without Liz. This is a story of what if what more importantly a story based on what happens after you decide to live based on the right now. This book at first glance would have the reader feel it is going to be morose but let me tell you not one moment of it is. Yes you feel sadness over Liz's loss of her family but like a phoenix rising from the ashes Liz rebuilds herself into Kate and the change is astounding when you see how she takes what she was to become was she is. The entire set of characters are so well written that for every failure, you see success and for every heartache you feel love grow. I hope Ms. Owens continues to write such wonderful books and knows because there is no way I can imagine a what if she doesn't. Mary Gramlich is The Reading Reviewer located at [...]