Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Review - Lucy Come Home

Lucy Come Home
AUTHOR: Dave and Neta Jackson
PUBLISHED BY: Castle Rock Creative
ISBN: 978-0-9820544-3-7
RELEASED DATE: June 13, 2012
PAGES: 424



    Lucy Come Home is book one in A Yada Yada Journey of Hope series which is a spin-off of the authors Dave and Neta Jackson’s Yada Yada House of Hope series. This is my first read from the authors, but from my understanding there are a few recurring characters from their other books in this one including Lucy.

    Living on the streets of Chicago is the soon to be an eighty-year-old Lucy Tuckers, who is known to some as the crotchety old bag lady. Everyone may just see a homeless woman, but Lucy has a reason for being where she is and her tale begins to unravel as her life unexpectedly collides with a young woman and her aging mother.

    The novel flips back and forth from the present day to the 1940’s, where we get an understanding of why Lucy is the way she is, where she left home as a teenager, to later becoming a widow, to eventually living on the streets.

    It took me several chapters to become interested in Lucy Come Home, maybe because I wasn’t familiar with some of the other books by the authors. The bag lady Lucy Tucker is an interesting character. When you see a homeless person, you probably think “Why can’t they get a job?” but a homeless person has a past and may have a reason why they choose to live “independent” from society. The authors have done a great job giving us readers a picture of what it is like living on the streets and in homeless shelters. I also enjoyed the descriptions of the carnival, which made me feel if I was really there. Lucy Come Home is filled with heartache, but it has a bittersweet ending that’ll put a smile on your face.

*I would like to thank Litfuse and Castle Rock Creative.




About the author:


Along Wooded PathsDave and Neta Jackson are award-winning authors living in the Chicago area where their parallel novels from the Yada Yada House of Hope and Harry Bentley series are set. 
  
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