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Richard Paul Evans is one of the world's most beloved storytellers. Evans spins a bittersweet tale of the fantastic joy and great sorrow life can throw your way.

Another good book by Richard Paul Evans. I feel that it is slightly autobiographical although he says only parts of it are. I am so glad things are resolved in the end. He was so in love with his family that I felt that he gave up on them too easily. ( )

I enjoy Evans books. This was a touching story and I thoroughly enjoyed it. As always, he revealed some basic truths that we often lose sight of in our daily life.

This was purchased at a TLA Convention as a signed copy which I lent to my school library until my retirement.

Robert Harlan has three loves in his life: his wife Allyson, his daughter, Carson, and his writing. He hopes to be able to just become a successful writer. When he is suddenly laid off from his job, Allyson encourages him to pursue his dream. He writes a novel, A Perfect Day, about the time he and his daughter spent together as she was dying of cancer. It becomes a huge success and he is swept away from his life and is in danger of losing all. ( )

If you like sappy, predictable stories with poorly developed characters and a by-the-numbers plotline, this might be the book for you.

In it, a wannabe novelist hits the big time after appropriating his wife's story of her last days with her dying father, and their supposedly perfect union begins to dissolve under the pressures of celebrity. He goes off on a four-week book tour (which probably ought to be banned by the Geneva Convention) and finds he enjoys the perks while she stays home in Utah with their 6-year-old daughter and feels sorry for herself because he's away,pushing his book up the Best Seller List.

At every opportunity, they undermine each other. He doesn't seem to have the backbone to tell his publisher that he absolutely has to have a mid-tour break; she never suggests the notion of meeting him somewhere along the route for a little together-time. (Example -- he finds himself in New York for Thanksgiving week because he has an absolutely vital Monday morning meeting, and notes with what Evans tells us is regret that he will miss his daughter's Thanksgiving Pageant on Tuesday. Why? Don't westbound planes depart New York several times a day? Then, first thing Monday morning, he discovers the meeting has been cancelled. Does he hie to the airport and grab the next flight for home? No, he hangs around until Wednesday afternoon bemoaning the fact that he's missing the family holiday.)

Evans never shows when he can tell, and his choppy chapter structure prevents the narrative flow from ever gathering strength. Then, about halfway through the narrative, the story takes a hard right into woo-woo land when Our Author meets an angel who tells him he will be dead by New Year's and of course, like Ebenezer Scrooge (but with less verbiage) he is transformed by the experience.

Nope. Just not my thing. ( )