Book Review: In This Moment

I always struggle with finding good topics to write. I am an avid book reader though so I decided that I would start writing book reviews every Sunday. Book reviews are some of my favourite things to read because you get so much information from bloggers.

Today I thought I would do a review on the book In This Moment by Karma Brown.

I fell in love with Karma’s writing after reading her novel Come Away with Me. By luck I found Come Away With Me in a 40% off pile at Walmart and finished it in a day. Therefore when In This Moment came out, I just had to check it out.

P.S. Karma Brown lives an hour from me and I think it’s pretty cool.

The back of In This Moment:

“Best-selling author Karma Brown is back with a morally infused and emotionally riveting exploration of one’s guilt over an unexpected – yet avoidable – tragedy.

Meg Pepper has a fulfilling career and a happy family. Most days she’s able to keep it all together and glide through life. But then, in one unalterable moment, everything changes. After school pickup one day, she stops her car to wave a teenage boy across the street… just as another car comes hurtling down the road and slams into him. Meg can’t help but blame herself for her role in this horrific disaster. Full of remorse, she throws herself into helping the boy’s family as he rehabs from his injuries. But the more Meg tries to absolve herself, the most she alienates her own family – and the more she finds herself being drawn to the boy’s father. Soon Meg’s picture-perfect life is unravelling before her eyes. As the painful secrets she’s been bury bubble dangerously close to the surface, she will have to decide: can she forgive herself, or will she risk losing everything she holds dear to her heart?”

My Review

I really enjoyed this book. I’m usually more of a thriller novel reader but this one had me really intrigued. It’s about your typical stay at home mom turned real estate agent with her fancy doctor husband. However one day, she lets a boy run across the street and he gets hit by a car – because one of the teachers leaving school was texting and driving.

This story had me interested because it was how Meg coped with her stress because she blamed herself as she let the boy run across. She lets the situation impact her marriage and relationship with her daughter. It seems really raw and true; I honestly felt as some points that I was reading more of a news article than a novel. In a fantastic way.

The one thing that I didn’t really like was the character, Meg. I found it really hard to relate to her. She seemed like she had this fantastic life but yet chose to throw it all away because of one incident in her life. She was willing to throw this great life for an accident she witnessed because she felt guilty. I understand the guilt, however, it shouldn’t have lasted as long as it did. Either that or she should have gone to get help from a medical professional because her mental health was clearly not well at all.

Overall Rating: 4.5/5

About the Author:

Copied & pasted from Karma’s website.

Karma lives just outside Toronto, Canada with her husband, daughter and a labradoodle named Fred. When not crafting copy or mulling plot lines, she is typically running or working on her downward dog, hanging out with her family, making a mess in the kitchen and checking items off her bucket list.

P.S. Karma Brown is releasing a new book on June 1^st – The Life Lucy Knew. It looks incredible!