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A lesson to all people about friendships and growing up., April 10, 1998
This review is from: A Season for Goodbye (One Last Wish) (Mass Market Paperback)
For anybody who has been reading the One Last Wish series, this is one book you can't miss. A lot of questions from previous stories about Josh, Katie, Lacey, Jeff, Chelsea, and other characters are answered, and you will be as touched by this book as by all the ones before it. For people who haven't read any of the series yet, this book is a great place to start, but go back and read some of the others too!!
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An unbelievably touching love story - Kayla gr.8, December 16, 1997
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This review is from: A Season for Goodbye (One Last Wish) (Mass Market Paperback)
"A Season for Goodbye" by Lurlene McDaniel helped me realize that people with medical problems can be just as normal as you and me. Each of the three main characters-Katie, Lacey, and Chelsea, has a medical problem and problems with guys. Katie, who survived a heart transplant, has to choose whether to go to college and run track on a scholarship in Arizona or stay with her boyfriend, Josh, in Michigan. Lacey has diabetes and her boyfriend, Jeff, who has hemophilia, doesn't trust her feelings toward him because of how she used to deny her diabetes to fit into the "in" crowd. He felt that if she couldn't face reality, how could she possibly love him and his disease. Chelsea survived a heart transplant and by the end of the book she was over her fear of romance. One part of the book that was really intense was when the Jenny House (the place they all stayed at for the summer) started on fire. How did it start? Did Dullas, a mean orphan who has luekemia, do it? Even though summer comes to an end and they all go their separate ways, they will always remember the experiences they shared that summer. If you enjoy a touching, realistic romance story, you'll love "A Season for Goodbye".
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"A Season For Goodbye proves to be worth it more than any other McDaniel novels", May 17, 2006
A Season for Goodbye by Lurlene McDaniel gets the readers attention in every way possible. It has comedy, suspense which keeps the readers hooked to keep on reading and finding out what is going to happen next, a few conflicts that get resolved eventually and a bit of tragedy that brings tears to its reader's eyes. This novel revolves around three young women, Katie, Lacey and Chelsea. There is one thing that holds all three of the characters together and that is the Jenny House. The Jenny House is a house for people with cancer and they all get together over the summer to enjoy every bit of time they have left. The three girls get together this summer for the last time before heading off their own directions. All three have conflicts going on in their lives which they in the end resolve.
Katie must decide between, whether to take the scholarship that is offered to her far away from home or try to work things out an old flame of hers. Chelsea on the other hand must trounce over her feelings of falling in love. The last main character, Lacey, having the most difficult decision of all must convince Jeff, her boyfriend that her feelings towards him can be trusted and she does love him with all his heart. It becomes hard for her to convince the Jeff since they get into arguments constantly and end up blowing up at each other.
What also makes this novel so different from other novels is that it contains inspiring elements that holds people together. Dullas, one of the Jenny House residents who have serious attitude issues often gets in arguments with Katie. Katie has to deal with her attitude since they both live in the same room. Katie never gives up and always tries to convince Dullas and make her understand. "Into every little life, a little rain must fall". This quote gives Katie her most inspiration. As McDaniel's novels revolve around life lessons, yet again she does a good job introducing a new life lesson that people should not give up so easily. Everyone must make an effort to reach somewhere. Many conflicts arise when Lacey and Jeff try to work things out. The novel is mostly based around Lacey's life and Katie, but not so much on Chelsea's. She is seen more of a care taker of the other two girls and the rest of the Jenny House residents.
Lacey and Jeff eventually resolve their arguments when an accident takes place with Jeff. She pours her heart to Jeff and he finally believes the feelings Lacey has for him are worth trusting.
But things don't go their way for too long when a tragedy strikes the Jenny House. It seems like all along that everything is okay and all the girls are going to be okay with their lives and their boyfriends but just when they think things are going fine, something goes wrong. In such a situation they learn to stick with each other and be there for each other when times of hardships come along. As much as we would think that their friendship might be affected by this Jenny House tragedy, the girls try their best to stick together and fight every difficult situation head on. It might seem like they all have their separate ways but in the end they all follow the same path together.
"I know you're grateful to me because I stuck by you when you were in the hospital. Which is more than any other girl has ever done when she sees me like this." This quote easily summarizes what the reader might be looking for. The novel is surrounded with numerous moral lessons.
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