{"id":4310,"date":"2016-07-12T10:25:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T14:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookmaven623.wordpress.com\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2016-07-12T10:25:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T14:25:54","slug":"review-revenants-the-odyssey-home-by-scott-kauffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackiepaxsonauthor.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/12\/review-revenants-the-odyssey-home-by-scott-kauffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Revenants: The Odyssey Home by Scott Kauffman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Tuesday!\u00a0 I have a wonderfully unique book for you.\u00a0 This is an imaginative story that incorporates aspects of Homer’s Odyssey<\/em> and a historical fiction novel.\u00a0 For my full review keep reading after the book blurb.<\/p>\n

\"28365348\"Book Blurb:<\/h2>\n

ONLY BETSY CAN GET HIM HOME IN TIME; ONLY HE CAN BRING HER BACK BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.
\nA grief-stricken candy-striper serving in a VA hospital following her brother\u2019s death in Viet Nam struggles to return home an anonymous veteran of the Great War against the skullduggery of a congressman who not only controls the hospital as part of his small-town fiefdom but knows the name of her veteran. A name if revealed would end his political ambitions and his fifty-year marriage. In its retelling of Odysseus\u2019 journey, Revenants casts a flickering candle upon the charon toll exacted not only from the families of those who fail to return home but of those who do. <\/span><\/p>\n

Review:<\/h2>\n

Betsy’s life is flipped upside down when her brother dies in Vietnam.\u00a0 Her grades fall and her behavior falters.\u00a0 When she is given one chance to change she reluctantly grabs at it.\u00a0 Being a candy-striper at the VA changes her perspective completely.\u00a0 She sees what war does to its soldiers and when she realizes there is a patient that is being hidden away she makes it her duty to get him home.\u00a0 What Betsy uncovers will change her and her memory of her brother.\u00a0 She will travel through time and history to uncover the one soldier that needs to find his way home.
\nThis was truly a phenomenal book.\u00a0 I am a huge Odyssey fan and when I realized this story was a mixture of my love of history and my love of Homer’s Odyssey<\/em>, I had high expectations.\u00a0 These expectations were met and exceeded.\u00a0 The entwining stories of the mystery soldier and Betsy’s drive to get all of her current soldiers home was sweet, endearing and enchanting.\u00a0 I fell into this book and am left with a tremendous book hangover.\u00a0 All of the characters were well written and developed into complex realistic characters.\u00a0 Overall, I would highly recommend this book for anyone looking for a full reading experience that will leave you with a hangover that your next book will have a hard time topping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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