After four years of mourning, Doctor Hackett Metzger is determined to stop letting his wife’s death control his life. He is finally beginning to live again, but his recovery leads to an unexpected fight for his own survival and startling revelations about what happens to all of us in The Moment Between.Hackett, a brilliant neurologist, is a skeptic. He doesn’t believe he will one day be reunited … be reunited with Jean, or dwell with God in heaven. What he does believe is that he should have seen the warning signs of her heart attack; he should have saved her. He also cannot accept the possibility that his clinical study of near-death experiences could prove the existence of a conscious afterlife. When Hackett falls for the mother of a patient, grief finally begins to fade. But he has no idea his new love is hiding her dangerous past.
As life and research collide, the good doctor discovers that the secrets of love and death just may be part of the same fabric.
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Dr. Hackett Metzger is a neurologist whose wife died 4 years before the start of the story. A big part of the book is him trying to answer the question When and how does the spark of consciousness enter and leave the body, and trying to understand near-death experiences. He is asked to support a study in the hospital where he is the lead Neurologist.
Sara Filicidees has also lost a husband to death and has a teenaged son with epilepsy. Sara isn’t as pure-hearted as Hackett is, and has been shaped by the abuse suffered as a child and being poor her entire life. I won’t go into more detail about the plot as to not give spoilers.
This book was different than I expected, but I enjoyed it. The further into it I got, the more I wanted to read and found myself staying up late not wanting to put it down. While the suspense was different than I expected, it was still a page-turner.
To me, this did not read as a first published book from an author. Mr. Frank did a good job developing characters and building suspense from the first page. There were times in the book I couldn’t see how everything would fit together but that didn’t stop me from continuing to read. There were parts of the book that were over my head when numbers and physics were discussed, but I was able to skim through that and still get the information I needed to understand the story. There were parts of the book I thought were maybe a little long and drawn out, but it was still a page-turner.
What a great first novel, Mr. Frank!
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes phycological thrillers, especially those who have knowledge or interest in physics.
Thank you to Book Sirens for the free digital ARC in exchange for an honest and voluntary review. All opinions are my own.
I enjoyed parts of this book. I liked that it covered a topic I have not read much about, life after death. Many parts of the story got into a deeper, theoretical discussion, which was interesting. The story itself was ok. The two main characters got on my nerves a bit. You couldn’t hate Sarah anymore and Hackett was making me angry at how dumb he could be. So it was a bit predictable. It kept my attention though and I was eager to read it and get to the end to see how it ended and what Hackett finally believed.
Thank you to Book Sirens for the free digital ARC in exchange for an honest and voluntary review. All opinions are my own.
I enjoyed parts of this book. I liked that it covered a topic I have not read much about, life after death. Many parts of the story got into a deeper, theoretical discussion, which was interesting. The story itself was ok. The two main characters got on my nerves a bit. You couldn’t hate Sarah anymore and Hackett was making me angry at how dumb he could be. So it was a bit predictable. It kept my attention though and I was eager to read it and get to the end to see how it ended and what Hackett finally believed.
Thank you to Book Sirens for the free digital ARC in exchange for an honest and voluntary review. All opinions are my own.
I am feeling generous and giving this one 2 stars. I had a hard time with this one. There was very little about the life after death and more family drama. Lack luster characters and found the 2nd half of the book boring until the last chapter or two.