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A Season for Goodbye (One Last Wish)

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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!!

"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".

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.

I am a huge fan of Lurlene McDaniel and the "One Last Wish" series. After reading "All The Days of Her Life" I HAD to find out what happened with Jeff and Lacey. They are definitely my favorite couple!!!! and I wanted so badly to see them and read more of their story.

So after months of anticipation, I finally bought "Season for Goodbye". The story is mostly about Katie, Chelsea and Lacey working through their problems.

Katie could not decide whether to take the scholarship she'd worked so long for, and to her surprise, Josh is a counselor at Jenny House so she didn't really get to work things out on her own.

Chelsea, is really doing nothing big, just still crushing on DJ, Jillian's brother, and trying to get back to normal life.

Lacey is handling a girl named Dullas, who has an attitude similar to Lacey's [but Lacey wasn't this bad!] last summer.

If you are like me, and just want to hear of Lacey and Jeff, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. Rent it from the library. There are 3 and only 3 Lacey/Jeff scenes: a big fight, a truce, and big reconciliation [which wasn't even that good] . I was disappointed with how little Lacey/Jeff there was, but this is still a good book!

This books shows you how hard to say good-bye to people who are your friends. When one dies its felt through them all. All her books are soooooo good that I can't put them down I need to find out what happens. I usally finish it in one night. Read her books & you'll see what I mean.

Lurlene McDaniel does it again! This is a touching book, with great lessons about friendship, love, and life. It is great reading, and even if you think you're too old to read this book, READ IT! :) It makes for an ageless read.

This book is one of my favorites. It really showed how important friendship is. Like all of her books it made me cry. Maybe it made me cry the most. ~Sarah

This is a GREAT book, possibly one of the best I've read by Lurlene McDaniel. This was perhaps the first One Last Wish novel I've read by her, and my favorite. It's sweet, touching, romantic (though not as much as some of her other books) and of course, knowing Lurlene McDaniel's books, amazingly sad. Still all around great!

I'm amazed that McDaniel pulled this one off. Her last few novels were so annoying . . . Anyway, you will like this novel.It's full of conflict, Katie having to decide between a track scholarship in Arizona and staying with Josh. Chelsea is trying to overcome her fear of romance and get DJ and Lacey must get through to Dullas, an angry foster child and covince Jeff that she won't dump him again... Rewad to find out what happens to Katie, Josh, Chelsea, DJ, Jeff, Lacey, Kimbra, Dullas and Mr. Holloway.

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The book begins with three best friends reuniting at a summer camp that they all formally attended together. The summer camp is a camp for terminally ill children, but Chelsea, Katie, and Lacey are returning to be counselors. The story is mainly told from Katie's point of view so it makes it easier to understand. At first she is struggling with making a decision to either go to a college to run track and make her dream come true, or to stay at home with her boyfriend to settle down and get married. She wants to run, but her boyfriend is pressuring her to stay. It's a tough decision but what makes it even harder is the fact that her boyfriend's, brother's heart is beating in her chest. She goes to the camp to get away from him so she can do some thinking, but when he shows up and surprises her at the summer camp, she wasn't too happy. The three friends run into their problems and they all get solved. The book ends happily and everything is all good.

The reason that I said that this book was a tear jerker because it has really deep scenes that make you want to cry from sadness and joy. I liked this book, it made me think about terminally ill children and influenced me to donate money to them. The book went by faurly fast and I loved it.

I would recommend this book to anybody who likes to read teen books that make you cry...because it will!!