The Shortest Way Home [Large Print]

by Juliette Fay

Book Overview

What do you do when destiny isn't turning out as planned? For Sean Doran, you make a course correction . . . and go home. USA Today bestselling author Juliette Fay delivers a richly-drawn page-turner... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1410456293
• ISBN13: 9781410456298
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Length: 651 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

The Shortest Way Home

The book jacket calls it "A novel full of hope & humor". I didn't find any hope or humor in it. (I have her 2 earlier books & liked them a lot.) This one was totally depressing. There are 5 main characters & 5 secondary characters. Seven are related & 3 are friends of the main character. Out of these 10 people, 1 died of Huntington's disease, & 3 have a 50% chance of inheriting it. One of those 3 also has chronic, debilitating back pain & another one has sensory processing disorder. Another character has Alzheimer's disease, one has a horribly disfigured face from birth defects, a couple have heart-breaking fertility problems, one died of pneumonia, one is an alcoholic, & 2 of them abandoned their families. It was exhausting just to read this book, & at the end, I thought there was 1 more chapter but I turned the page & it was the Reader's Discussion! So, if you love depressing books with no resolution at the end, this is the book for you.