Eight Twenty Eight - a biased book review

Yes, I took this picture straight off Amazon. How did you know?! But hey, now you know for sure that you can get it on Kindle, should you so desire.

I finished this book late at night a few days ago. Sometimes I wonder if I should just rate books according to what hour of the day/night I close the cover/turn off the Kindle for the final time. The later it is, almost without exception, the better the book. After all, could you really give four or five stars to a book that wasn't good enough to have kept you up the night before, but instead you waited until a normal hour of the following day to finish it?

I reviewed Eight Twenty Eight on www.goodreads.com earlier today, and gave it my honest opinion, critiquing the writing a bit and, while giving it a strong score of four stars, I wasn't raving. So if you want to read that, go here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20522291-eight-twenty-eight
And if you want to read what others say in Amazon reviews or to buy the book on Amazon, go here: http://www.amazon.com/Eight-Twenty-When-Love-Didnt-ebook/dp/B00MELILBS/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8

But for the purpose of this blog, I want to be a bit more enthusiastic. For one thing, it's just plain fun to read about people you know and your own town! The authorial couple attend our church right here in Indiana, PA, and a lot of their friends, who are mentioned in the book, are people we've gotten to know. At one point Warren Road was referred to, and I looked out my bedroom window and saw Warren Road. How wild is that? I've sure never had that experience before when reading!

But of course, those points might not sell you on the book, since chances are you don't live in this town. What you might care about, though, is that it's a just plain stick-in-your mind book that you won't forget, and don't really want to forget, either. Brief summary: college kids meet, fall in love, and are thinking about marriage. Then the guy is in a serious car accident and has a major brain injury. The girl sticks with him, he starts to recover, and after like four years of very, very slow progress, they get married. He's still in a wheelchair and can barely talk, but they have remained in love and have a lot of faith in God. At the time the book was written (which was very recently), they'd been married for four years. How could you not be drawn into a story like that? If it were fiction, nobody would believe it. Try it, you'll like it. It's a story about love that didn't give up, faith that didn't give up, and two people who are still engrossed in the joy and struggle of their lives even now.