Chasing Rainbows by Kathleen Long

Kathleen Long is on tour with CLP Blog Tours. I absolutely adored Chasing Rainbows. Once I started, I simply could not put it down. If it weren’t for work beckoning my name, I would have sat and read this is one sitting.  The main character is Bernadette Murphy, a woman who has been having some rough years. From the death of her daughter to her husband leaving her for another woman to her dad passing away, Bernie finally snaps under the pressure. I think it would have been easy for Bernie to come off as whiny or even pathetic – she lets herself binge eat and gain weight, she lashes out her best friend, she seems to always be rude to the friendly next door neighbor – but she didn’t seem that way to me at all. For everything she has been through, the breaking point has to eventually come. I believe it’s what happens after you reach that point. Bernie may struggle throughout the novel, but she learns and is opening to the life lessons, many which come through a series of cryptograms that her father left her before he passed. Bernie’s story really touched me. I was laughing during the book, I shed a few tears, and it’s a book that just made me sit and think. Long is an exceptional writer, and Chasing Rainbows is the latest novel to be added to my Favorites List. A must read for women!

[Rating: 5]

6 Comments

  1. February 20, 2012 / 5:00 pm

    Thank you for the lovely and generous review, Samantha! I’m honored to join your Favorites List. ;o)

  2. February 20, 2012 / 10:38 pm

    Ms Long writes great books I have read every book but this Chasing Rainbows touched my heat and sometimes she made me laugh and then some times I cried
    She is a great writer when I pick up one of her books I know I will be entertain
    Just love her

  3. Samantha
    Author
    February 22, 2012 / 11:23 pm

    Thanks Kathleen! What a touching book 🙂

  4. Samantha
    Author
    February 22, 2012 / 11:24 pm

    Thanks for stopping by Sue! This was my first from Kathleen and I know it won’t be the last 🙂