In writing this review, I pondered over just how to begin. When I say ponder, I mean, I stayed awake thinking about this story; these characters that are as real as you and me. Do I write about me? Do I write about you? Do I write about this author? Of course not, but even if I where to write our stories, it would be just as difficult for me to describe, as it is to tell you what this story holds in their pages for all of us to see. You have to experience this novel, not just read it!
We start out, one morning, seeing a little boy, standing in a wilderness of cut grass, not really knowing how to live in the world around him. The sun rises on an innocent little boy, innocent to what adults can hide; this story revolves around Michael, abducted by a stranger from his own, safe, backyard, and only knowing what his parents had taught him: be cautious of everything - worry about what might, or could, happen. He leaves with a total stranger.
How can he be careful of what he has never experienced? How can he see what has never been shown to him? Who, and what can he trust? These are the scenarios we hear in his head. He meets a new world, after being taken away; it’s also an evolution through time, and place, for Kyra and David, his parents. The pieces to this puzzle start to pop, like fire crackers in the night, as the scenes of the past start to take revealing shapes! A small child, a product of doting, over protective parents, is what we see----as the sun starts to set.
Each character has a voice, they overlap, until their past catches up with them...this story tells us how revealing and important a past can be to the future.
The Winters In Bloom discloses buried moments in history – it is no different than each and every one of us, shoving something away, unsaid, or pushing something we’ve done, down, in hopes to never see those unwanted secrets surface, again.
Lisa Tucker has an uncanny way of showing us our past in her novels. This one is no exception, as exceptional as it may be! We open up this book, hearing Lisa speak to us from her characters, breathing life and truth into focus by these people; to find the mysteries of the living, as well as the influences of the dead.
I won’t tell you the story, because it’s up to you to find out where this history leads. Lisa Tucker shows us all sides to being a parent, a child, and a grandparent...Michael finds out just who he is, and with amazement, who his parents are and will become....and to be given a world shown to him through the eyes of forgiveness and redemption.
