GRR Reviews Marking Time (Treading Water) by Marie Force

Making Time is a love story about letting go, and while this probably may not make sense, let me go over the plot and you'll probably get it...

Clare Harrington woke up from a three-year coma against all odds after a horrible car collision. She should celebrate her lucky stars, but the world had left her behind. Her husband had fallen for a different woman, Andi, while she's out of the picture and gotten her pregnant with twins. Clare divorced him to let him start a new family, but it still hurt. Their oldest daughter Kate, with musical talent, went to Nashville, getting a year to explore her talent... and fell in love there with a much older man... a college buddy of her father, even as she had a brush with her destiny. Clare in the meanwhile left her home with too many memories behind, and moved to her brother's cabin in Vermont, and came to know a gruff carpenter there... who harbors his own pain... Will Clare find a new love? Will Kate meet her success? What will they have to let go for love and family?

Marie Force managed to wring out some genuine conflicting emotions about letting go, betrayal, trust, and more from the characters. Clare loved her husband by letting him go. They both have to let Kate go, and trust her to choose right when she chose an older man, even though it seems to be a betryal. But this story is about Clare letting go of her past and embracing her own future. While the plot lines seem disparate, Marie Force skillfully jumped among plotlines with skill rivals that of Tom Clancy's technothrillers. And what's even more important, I had NOT read book 1, and this book is still enjoyable. Highly recommended.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Woman woke from coma to find her husband fell for someone else and daughter spreading her wings; can she move on with her life?

Tropes: survivor, scars, May/ September, mountain man, small town, betrayal

Overall Rating:  5/5