This is a review of the abridged audiobook version of this story.
In the beginning, it was enjoyable - Myra, a 51 year old wallflower has become a nurse and while her life is not exciting, it is livable. She has her own home, an absolutely wonderful dog named Frank and a Porsche. She no longer works in a hospital setting but visits homebound patients who can't live without her. While she did seem believable in the beginning, she quickly escalated into "Saint Myra" mode - dealing with all of her patients problems, taking a 98-year old woman (who also still volunteers in the library and has just applied for a job at the local bookstore) to the movies, counseling a 15-year old on whether or not she should put her baby up for adoption, going into horrible neighborhoods and befriending gunshot victim drug dealers, and does all this while taking her dog with her to visit the patients in their homes. I rather liked the dog!
What Myra does regret is that she never had a chance to be with the boy of her dreams - Chip Reardon (horrible name for a grown man). Lo and behold, who is her newest patient - good old Chip who just happens to be dying of a brain tumor and actually wants to die rather than fight to hold on and go through aggressive cancer treatment. And what does St. Myra do? Not only does she take Chip on as a patient, she lets him move into her home with her. And then, to elevate her status as the most used female in the entire United States, she invites Chip's former girlfriend - the senior high prom queen, most beautiful girl in the school to come visit and even lets them make love in the house while Myra is in her bedroom, feeling forlorn.
I understand feeling empathy and sympathy for a character in a book, but Myra came across as being unbelievable, naive and used instead of compassionate and loving. Definitely not as good as her other books.
In the beginning, it was enjoyable - Myra, a 51 year old wallflower has become a nurse and while her life is not exciting, it is livable. She has her own home, an absolutely wonderful dog named Frank and a Porsche. She no longer works in a hospital setting but visits homebound patients who can't live without her. While she did seem believable in the beginning, she quickly escalated into "Saint Myra" mode - dealing with all of her patients problems, taking a 98-year old woman (who also still volunteers in the library and has just applied for a job at the local bookstore) to the movies, counseling a 15-year old on whether or not she should put her baby up for adoption, going into horrible neighborhoods and befriending gunshot victim drug dealers, and does all this while taking her dog with her to visit the patients in their homes. I rather liked the dog!
What Myra does regret is that she never had a chance to be with the boy of her dreams - Chip Reardon (horrible name for a grown man). Lo and behold, who is her newest patient - good old Chip who just happens to be dying of a brain tumor and actually wants to die rather than fight to hold on and go through aggressive cancer treatment. And what does St. Myra do? Not only does she take Chip on as a patient, she lets him move into her home with her. And then, to elevate her status as the most used female in the entire United States, she invites Chip's former girlfriend - the senior high prom queen, most beautiful girl in the school to come visit and even lets them make love in the house while Myra is in her bedroom, feeling forlorn.
I understand feeling empathy and sympathy for a character in a book, but Myra came across as being unbelievable, naive and used instead of compassionate and loving. Definitely not as good as her other books.
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