One of the highlights for me in any book is the author's use of dialogue. And I must say that in the first chapter of With Every Memory, I was delighted and held captive by the way that Janine Rosche uses dialogue to capture not just a character's actions and voice, but how the way people talk to each other and themselves to showcase their motivations -- externally and internally..
I cannot image how I would respond if I was in Lori's shoes. What would I do if I was the victim of a serious accident that left me with a traumatic brain injury and robbed me of almost a decade of memories. Saddest of all, how would I feel if that same accident took my child and robbed me of most of my memories of him? Add to this the changes that I now observe within know my family and I don't know if I wouldn't crumble under the pressure of it all. I know I would wonder if the changes were because of the death of our son, my own inability to remember our lives together, the pressure that my accident and absence had inflected on my daughter....or is there something more dark at the heart of this? I know I would have to know and in that way, Lori speaks to me!
These are the questions that drew.me into this excerpt and which leave me wondering what else the book will uncover! The tone reminded me of a.Hitchcock movie and I loved the hint of suspense and thriller that seems to be bubbling to the surface.
I cannot image how I would respond if I was in Lori's shoes. What would I do if I was the victim of a serious accident that left me with a traumatic brain injury and robbed me of almost a decade of memories. Saddest of all, how would I feel if that same accident took my child and robbed me of most of my memories of him? Add to this the changes that I now observe within know my family and I don't know if I wouldn't crumble under the pressure of it all. I know I would wonder if the changes were because of the death of our son, my own inability to remember our lives together, the pressure that my accident and absence had inflected on my daughter....or is there something more dark at the heart of this? I know I would have to know and in that way, Lori speaks to me!
These are the questions that drew.me into this excerpt and which leave me wondering what else the book will uncover! The tone reminded me of a.Hitchcock movie and I loved the hint of suspense and thriller that seems to be bubbling to the surface.