A Little Beyond Hope (A Little Beyond #1)
Tracie Puckett
March 29, 2015
A tornado threatens destruction in Oakland, and Julie is forced to take shelter. Riding out the storm with Luke, Matt, and Kara, she quickly finds herself thrown into the past, forced to confront painful truths of then and now.
The storm hits, but not without devastating loss. Someone she loves is missing, another has run away. One has been critically injured, and the town she loves has suffered great devastation. With little left moving forward, everyone is struggling to get by. Hope comes in waves, few and far between, and Julie is left to wonder if there’s anything left to hold on to.
This book, you definitely need to have read the other books in the little series before reading this one as it’s a continuation.
My heart aches so much at everything that happens in A Little Beyond Hope, there are quite a few life lessons that anyone, at any age, could take to the heart and learn from, grow from the words that we read.
A terrible storm rips through Oakland, I can’t go into details as it’s a major spoiler, so this review will be short. Life is a gift, everyone always thinks they have it bad but I guarantee you that someone has it worse, that’s not to discredit the troubles one is going through, just to bring light that others are in bad shape too. Keep your head up and look for the light, there’s always a brighter side to everything.
“We lie. We overreact and over-analyze every little thing. And no matter how bad we think we have it, there’s always someone else who had it worse. And then here we sit—praying for some kind of miracle…for something more…for some kind of magical fix. But there is no magical fix. Not this time. There’s nothing anyone can do. Life and death…they’re part of this world we live in. All we can do is accept it.”
Tracie Puckett is an award-winning stage actress, an international bestselling author, and the proud mother of two beautiful little boys. She’s published many titles in both young and new adult, and her debut novel, Breaking Rules, was chosen as one of iBooks Best of 2014.
In the rare occasion that she’s not playing matchmaker to fictional characters, you can likely find Tracie on stage, at the public library, or zooming down the hills of America’s greatest roller coasters!
She lives in Beavercreek, Ohio with her remarkably goofy family.
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