Book Review: How To Walk Away

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This is my review of the book “How to Walk Away” by Katherine Center.

Book Summary:

Margaret and her boyfriend become engaged on the very day tragedy strikes. She gets a new dream job she worked so hard for and a handsome fiancé she very much wants to marry. Margaret thinks she sees a picture-perfect life in her future.

Then suddenly everything is ripped away from her. During a short flight with her fiancé, Chip, a flight she does not want to take because she is so afraid of flying, the plane crashes. Chip walks away without a scratch. But Margaret is badly burned, and her legs are smashed.

This was supposed to be the happiest day of her life, and it turned into a tragedy. Then her estranged sister Kit shows up after a three-year disappearing act. Maggie has no idea why she left or why she didn’t respond to her calls and texts. Or even why she’s come back.

Her fiancé, Chip, is drinking and wallowing in self-pity and has a hard time looking at her. The woman he asked to marry him did not look like this, and he isn’t sure he can love this woman with all her burns and deformities.

In the hospital, she is assigned to a physical therapist, Ian, who is tough on her. He is abrupt, difficult, and not at all friendly, and he won’t give in to her self-pity.

Maggie wants to give up. Everything she’d worked so hard for appears to have gone up in smoke.

But sometimes, as the author says, the last thing you want is the one thing you need. And sometimes love finds us in the least likely places.

My Review:

This book gets 5 stars from me, which I very rarely give. Because it is a damned good book.

The author writes exquisite words that are poetic, meaningful, sorrowful, and hilarious all at once. A hard feat for any writer.

But Katherine Center hit all the high marks. And then some. This is a book you will want to read.

About The Author:

Bestselling Author Katherine Center wrote her first novel in the sixth grade and got hooked.

At 22, she won a fellowship to the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program and moved home to Texas with plans to become Jane Austen ASAP.

Her stories are always about resilience, struggle, and finding ways to savor life’s moments of grace. That’s why her characters joke around so much, even in the shadow of hardship.

And that’s why Katherine will never, ever, run the main character over with a bus in the final chapter. That’s a promise.

She lives in her hometown of Houston, Texas, with her awesome husband, two sweet children, and their fluffy-but-fierce dog.

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I hope you enjoyed this book review and will consider reading the book.