Winter Light by Martha Engber

Thank you @MarthaEngber @lovebookstours @KellyALacey for letting me part of this tour and reviewing this book. I listen to Winter light which is 7 hours and 58 minutes long. I liked hearing about Mary and following her story she had a tough life and it did pull on my heart strings due to her losing her mum and dad having problems with drinking. I just wanted to give her hug and say its going to be ok. The story is beaufully written. I liked the narrator and found her voice very easy to listen to. The story kept me hooked to the end because i really wanted to know how Mary story ended. I am happy the way it ended. Thecstory is heartwarming and engaging 5 stars. Blurb Fifteen-year-old Mary Donahue of suburban Chicago is a kid on the cusp of failure during the brutal blizzard winter of 1978-79, the end of a hard luck, hard rock era sunk in the cynical aftermath of the Vietnam War. Though a smart, beautiful kid, she’s a motherless girl raised by an uneducated, alcoholic father within an extended family of alcoholics and addicts. Aware that she’s sinking, she’s desperate to save herself and so reaches out to an unlikely source, Kathleen, a nice, normal kid from English class. But when the real storm hits, the full force of a harsh adult world almost buries Mary. Only then does she learn that the only difference between life and death is knowing when to grasp an extended hand.