Like a Knife Stab in the Heart, But in a Good Way

Like a Knife Stab in the Heart, But in a Good Way

By 

Meghan 

This review is from: One Last Love (Kindle Edition)

Meet Bonnie: dying of cancer, he's spending what he thinks are the last few days of his life under the care of doctors. In a hospice, of all places. But just when he's supposed to be staring at death in the eye, something else happens, some wonderful thing named Madeleine.

I won't give away too many details, but let me suffice it to say that Derek Haines has written something unforgettable here, with `One Last Love.' It's one of those stories you feel deserves a movie version.

A deeply touching tale about finding love in the most unlikely of places--a place where death prevails more than hope--One Last Love is at once inspiring and uplifting and reassuring. Of course, throughout the story there is despair and hopelessness at every turn--you feel it each time Bonnie makes a little joke to lighten up the situation. But somehow you feel it's plausible, that even near the end of life a new beginning could unfold. And it is this message that gives power and vitality to this book. There's also something poignantly courageous about how Bonnie tries to hide his suffering behind his humor: Bonnie's bravado starkly juxtaposes the situation he's in, which all the more increases the emotional impact of the tragedy. Here's a man who knows he's dying, yet he tries so hard to protect those around him with what little humor he could scrape from the bottom of his soul.

Derek Haines writes like a surgeon with a scalpel: he knows, with uncanny precision, which parts of human nature he must touch with his blade, or pen, that is. And I'm hoping Haines writes more, and soon--One Last Love shouldn't be his One Last Novel, but rather, just one in a string of what I believe are future bestsellers.

Two thumbs up for this wonderful story.