One Last Love

De: Derek Haines

Narrado por: Harry Roger Williams III

When it comes to love, it's never too late....

Life has the habit of delivering its twists at the most unexpected times.

For Bonnie, his life had been lived, and the bittersweet memories of his wife, along with the neverending sorrow of losing his son so young remain with him, but they are now ebbing away slowly with the passing of the years. His days of love, warmth, and tenderness well past and all that is left is his last few quiet years to grow old. Alone, yet content.

What he had done, he had done and what had happened, had. All that remained was to live out the rest of his life in a new place, far away from his checkered past. His days passing with the regularity that an old man desires and deserves. Until the dark day arrives that signals an impending end to his new found life, and with it, all sense of hope.

In facing mortality, Bonnie resorts to using his crusty exterior and bravado to hide the frailty and fear he feels within himself - until he is presented with stark realities beyond his understanding and is forced to come face to face with his own prejudices and beliefs.

In meeting Danny and Angeline, Bonnie begins to reshape his thoughts about his acceptance of those he had habitually admonished, and of the bigoted life he has lived. While Charlie and his daughter Beatrice realign his set concepts of how he had habitually rushed to judge people too quickly.

However, it is only when Bonnie meets Madeleine that the most unexpected eventuality turns his hard held beliefs, and his very set views about life, people, and love, on their head.

©2012 Derek Haines (P)2018 Derek Haines

Story of Last Days

I got this ARC via audiobook boom and this is my voluntary review. This is a story about a man who has been given weeks to live and he revisits his past as well as makes up for some of the mistakes he has made by actually learning tolerance. He begins this journey as a bigot, racist, and all around dumb dude. As he travels through his days in hospice care and actually gets to meet many types of the people that he has hated most of his adult life he realizes how wrong he was to not get to know the people before bashing them. This book took me on a tour of Bonnie's life, failures, and success as well as his decisions made throughout his seventy plus years. This was an interesting journey of discovery. The narration was spot on.

Heartfelt

This is a heartwarming story of old people in the later days in life. It was so true that it was a fun one. The narrator did a good job.

This was just ok for me.

I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

This is a heartwarming story about the end of life and the clarity that comes with age and perspective. The narrator has a nice sounding voice but there wasn't much variation in the voices he gave to the different characters. All in all, this was an alright listening experience.

Sweet story of end-of-life love.

I received this audiobook from AudioBoom in exchange for an honest review. The story was a gentle tale of a newcomer to a hospice interacting and coming to appreciate and love his fellow patients. I'm not familiar with either the author or the narrator, but I sensed from the vocabulary and names used that the author is not American. That is completely fine, but the narrator's voice for this book, at least, delivered an American accent, and I always find a disconnect between the language used and the accent a bit disconcerting. Otherwise I have no complaints. I don't regret the time I spent listening to One Last Love, but I'm unlikely to ever return for a re-listen or look for it in print.

Heartwarming

A story about people nearing the end of their lives. It was a heartwarming, fun story. Narration was good. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher and/or author and/or narrator in exchange for an honest review.