Escape From Bondage book review

Details:  Mahlon F. Harris author of Escape from Bondage has spun an amazing story about real life events, real life situations, real life emotions, real life circumstances.  This book "gives voice to the countless stroke victims who may have been forgotten and abandoned by the rest of society and ,sadly, even their families in their time of need" says Harris.  Harry Tucker the main character of this book is a successful business man with 2 adult children whom he loves.  One uneventful day in the office leaves Tucker frozen in time unconscious from a stroke.  Upon awakening he learns the real, unabridged dim future that awaits a stroke victim who was thought to only be a vegetable when or if he awakens.  Tucker's uncompassionate son has given up on him, and left his with nothing, no material possessions, no personal id, not even his own name.  But God has a plan for Harry Tucker and by sure stroke of luck or faith Tucker learns that God hasn't forgotten about him and gives him a will to survive and become a stronger man from this experience.

Disclaimer:  I received a complimentary book from Bookcrash in exchange for 3 honest non-biased book reviews.

My Reviews: When I first read the description of this book it sounded really good, very intriguing.  When I got the book and actually started reading it, at first I had a really hard time getting into the story.  There were a lot of medical terms that I didn't know or really understand.  The way the book in written is a style that I'm not really interested in picking up.  So I seriously struggled to get through the book for the first 2-3 months that I had this book.  Then during a recent vacation, I told myself that on this vacation I'm only bringing 2 books for myself to read if I get bored, and the rest of the vacation I'll be spending and focusing on my kids and my family.  With this determination I was finally able to get over the hump or block that prevented me from getting into this story and really liking it at all.  Meaning it wasn't until the last 1/2 - 1/3 of the book before I finally got into the book so much so that I couldn't put it down, I needed to know what was going to happen, and I can now say with true honestly that I do like the book.  However I will most likely not read it again.  My Mother-In-Law read the description and has been waiting 4 months now for me to finish this book so that I can give it to her to read.  But I think for her who is a woman taking care of her 90+ old Mother she would relate more to the main character and those whom he interacts with more than I would who is a young mother to young children.

I really feel like this book has a specific age target audience in mind and that if you aren't of that target you will not get as much out of this book as others, you will not connect with this book's lessons as much, and you very well may find it hard to just read the first 10 pages.  However the lessons in this book are great, the story does have a very conclusive happy ending, and you do come get to read a book that is clean, and Christian based which are all positives.  So because this is a little different than most books I'm giving this book a Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down because not everyone is going to want to read this, and I myself had to force myself to read it and it took half or more of the book to be read before I finally got into the story and enjoyed reading the book.

My Rating: Thumbs Up and Down