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Summary: Interesting reading
Review: A good book but a timesyou could become confused if you don't concentrate. The Heyworths are a modern family coping with pressures of the 90's when disater strikes. They go to the States to try experimental treatment to lift thier daughter's coma. The government has closed down the clinic and the Heyworths have to deal with this and the need to complete the treatment. You have to read it to discover if they are successful!
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Summary: Okay
Review: I agree with most of the other reviewers. This was a fascinating subject that could have been brilliant in the hands of a more competent writer. Ben's little "mind" excursions become very long and tedious, and after bearing with this book to the bitter end, you'd hope for a more satisfying ending.I also agree with one of the other reviewers that this could be a great movie. I would only hope for a better screen writer and a competent director & cast.
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Summary: Great start, disappointing finish.
Review: I loved the start of this book and couldn't put it down. But then it started to turn into a sort of ghosts and spirits book. The characters became unbelievable as well as the story. The ending was the worst. I too, skipped through the coma-type communications. Pity that a great story line didn't continue to the last page.
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Summary: I loved it
Review: I loved this book. I couldn't put it down. I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen.
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Summary: A Touching Family Novel
Review: I read The Lazarus Child by Robert Mawson. It is a fiction novel about the strength and love of a family. I had mixed feelings about the book, but I enjoyed it for the most part.
I liked the overall story and the plot. I enjoyed the ending. I would say more about why, but that would give it away. All of the characters were well developed and I think the author wrote them all well.
There were only two things that I didn't like about this book. One of them was that the author goes overboard with the descriptions. He went into such detail in some places that I skipped ahead to the next paragraph. The other thing that I didn't like about the book was that it jumped around. Within a chapter the plot would move from Frankie's hospital room to Dr. Elizabeth Chase's childhood, and then to Jack's office. It was hard for me to keep up with the plot and what had happened in the previous chapter. It was especially hard if I put the book down for more than a day. It would have been a lot easier to keep up if I had the time and the patience to sit down and read the book in one sitting.
Despite the two low points of the book I would have to say that the overall story and the concept of the book outweighed the low points. I would also have to say that I would recommend this book to anyone who is in need of a good book to read, but to be prepared and have your thinking cap on.
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Summary: A Touching Family Novel
Review: I read The Lazarus Child by Robert Mawson. It is a fiction novel about the strength and love of a family. I had mixed feelings about the book, but I enjoyed it for the most part.
I liked the overall story and the plot. I enjoyed the ending. I would say more about why, but that would give it away. All of the characters were well developed and I think the author wrote them all well.
There were only two things that I didn't like about this book. One of them was that the author goes overboard with the descriptions. He went into such detail in some places that I skipped ahead to the next paragraph. The other thing that I didn't like about the book was that it jumped around. Within a chapter the plot would move from Frankie's hospital room to Dr. Elizabeth Chase's childhood, and then to Jack's office. It was hard for me to keep up with the plot and what had happened in the previous chapter. It was especially hard if I put the book down for more than a day. It would have been a lot easier to keep up if I had the time and the patience to sit down and read the book in one sitting.
Despite the two low points of the book I would have to say that the overall story and the concept of the book outweighed the low points. I would also have to say that I would recommend this book to anyone who is in need of a good book to read, but to be prepared and have your thinking cap on.
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Summary: A Touching Family Novel
Review: I read The Lazarus Child by Robert Mawson. It is a fiction novel about the strength and love of a family. I had mixed feelings about the book, but I enjoyed it for the most part.
I liked the overall story and the plot. I enjoyed the ending. I would say more about why, but that would give it away. All of the characters were well developed and I think the author wrote them all well.
There were only two things that I didn't like about this book. One of them was that the author goes overboard with the descriptions. He went into such detail in some places that I skipped ahead to the next paragraph. The other thing that I didn't like about the book was that it jumped around. Within a chapter the plot would move from Frankie's hospital room to Dr. Elizabeth Chase's childhood, and then to Jack's office. It was hard for me to keep up with the plot and what had happened in the previous chapter. It was especially hard if I put the book down for more than a day. It would have been a lot easier to keep up if I had the time and the patience to sit down and read the book in one sitting.
Despite the two low points of the book I would have to say that the overall story and the concept of the book outweighed the low points. I would also have to say that I would recommend this book to anyone who is in need of a good book to read, but to be prepared and have your thinking cap on.
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Summary: It was ok until the end.
Review: I was on the edge of my seat through the whole book, waiting to see how it ended. I waded my way through the dream chapters to see what happend at the end. The end was terrible, you are built up for a big climax that never comes and leaves you with so many unanswered questions. How far does Frankie come back? What happend to Ben, Lizzie, Janet......
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Summary: a great escape
Review: If you're willing to suspend your disbelief for most of this novel, sit back, relax, and marvel at the wonderful imagination of Mr.Mawson you'll enjoy this book. I found it fascinating, exciting, and a wonderful escape from my own life here with four healthy children. Mr.Mawson takes the reader into the unknown world of the coma victim as various interesting characters attempt to bring an innocent child back to the conscious world. There are plot twists and enough surprises to keep one guessing.
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Summary: Heartwarming
Review: In Cambridge, England, the Heywoods' lives are forever changed by two incidents. The family matriarch Alison tosses her philandering spouse out of their home when she catches him sleeping with his secretary. That change forces their twelve year old son Ben to walk his younger sister to school every morning. On one particular day, Ben leaves his sister and her friend outside a store and he dashes inside to make a quick purchase. By the time he returns, a few seconds becomes eternityal when his sister and her friend are hit by a van. His sister is in a coma and her friend is dead. Desperate to save the life of her daughter, pronounced as being in an irreversible coma, Alison flies to the states to enlist the help of renegade practitioner Dr. Elizabeth Chase. Still, even with Elizabeth's uncanny success, a miracle will still be needed to save the little girl. THE LAZERUS CHILD is a tremendous, poignant thriller that deeply explores many of the critical ! ! social issues confronting mankind as we step towards the new millennium. The tear jerker story line is crisp, fast-paced, intelligent, and heart grabbing. The characters feel real as readers will believe that for the grace of God that is how they would have reacted to the tragedy. Robert Mawson lives up to the pre publication Everest like interest with a winning family drama that will definitely win hearts. Harriet Klausner
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