Nice stories about his rescue efforts in the small town ending with Websters attempt to save his daughter. Kept waiting for more life lessons but nothing of impact happens. Easy reading but no deep thinking needed. Never understood his attraction to eventually his wife Sheila when he had to have gone through enough rescuing of drunks to have hated them. Never learned enough about daughter Rowan to get why she went so downhill in her behaviors. ( )

Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that should have killed her. Sheila Arsenault haunts his thoughts, and despite his misgivings Peter is soon embroiled in an intense love affair--and in Sheila's troubled world.

Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off course, and for the first time in their quiet life together Peter fears for her future. He seeks out the only person who may be able to help Rowan, although Sheila's return is sure to unleash all the questions he has carefully been keeping at bay: Why did a mother leave her family? How did the marriage of two people so deeply in love unravel?

Not going to finish this one. Was listening to it, but the narrator and characters are irritating. Just not into it at all -- shame, I used to love Anita Shreve. ( )

Certainly not my favourite book of Anita Shreve's. However I did find myself easily absorbed by the story, and wanting to find out what would happen. A lot of the book left me feeling discontent, it's not really a feel-good story, even with the overtones of hope.
If looking to read this author for the first time, I wouldn't recommend this particular book. If you have read others by her, go for it. But if you're feeling glum, read something else, because this is not a mood lifter. ( )

Anita Shreve, a well known author who wrote "A Pilots Wife," has done it again with her book "Rescue." Did you ever dream your life out completely, right down to land you where going to buy in your own town? Did your dreams ever spiral out of control and you had to be the strong one? Webster, a young paramedic, had his life all figured out and was saving for the best piece of land in town. He wanted to buy it and build his own home someday, until the fire alarm went off and his life changed forever. Webster and his partner pulled the rig up to a car accident and a young woman was inside the totaled car. Webster rushed her to the ER, but later wonders how the young woman is doing. He walks into her hospital room and falls in love. When she is released from the hospital she has no where to go, so Webster takes her home. Webster and Sheila fall in love get married and have a baby girl all in nine months. Its all happening so fast, does Webster really know Sheila? Can Sheila handle motherhood? She begins drinking, and her child, Rowan, is just a baby. Sheila drives all over drunk with Rowan in the car. Will Websters life ever be the same again now that alcohol has entered?

Debbie F. / Marathon County Public Library
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