LAST CALL
By Laura Pederson
Contemporary Romance
Ballantine Books NY
Release Date: 1-2004
ISBN 0-345-46191-6
Review Rating: 4 cups
Cancer patient, Hayden McBride is researching the best way to go about dying, with his cohort-companion… his eleven year-old grandson, Joey. It is serious business until Sister Rosamond Roger suddenly pops into the picture. She has also been diagnosed with cancer. Once Rosa meets Hayden, she isn't interested in learning how to die. She wants to learn how to live a little… to have fun while she is still able, even though her vows to Jesus keeps getting in the way.
Everything seems solved when Joey suggests that she join the household for a "sleep over. This works out just fine, as Hayden loves tormenting his daughter, Diana. He asks Rosa to move in with them. After all what can his daughter say? It's his house. This is a wild madcap tale of Hayden's playful shenanigans, told with tongue-in-cheek humor as he deals with his family's problems, the defrocked nun, and the too-wise-for-his-own-good grandson, plus the drinking habits of his drunken buddies, the Greyfriars Gang.
This story covers all manner of love and loss when Hayden discovers there is more to life than dying. He learns to share the affections in his life with others; but, in spite of all the uproarious laughter in this story, Last Call still has a five hankie ending. I highly recommend this book. It touched me like no other has in a long time.
Reviewer: Gottawrite's JoEllen Conger
Author of:
Queen Of Candelore
Rite Of Passage
Return Of The Goddess
Cinderella And The Stripper
