Rating: 5/5Review: This is one of those novels that completely consumes you, until you finally reach the end with a big gasp of breath. It's beautiful and tragic, heartwarming and intriguing. It's full of ghosts, history, characters you really care about, and a mystery that will completely hold you enthralled. It's also a book that will make you value your mortality and hold on to life. It will make you want to talk to the ones you love and hold them just a little bit tighter, because you just never know what's around the next corner. Someone is always worse of then yourself.
Book Description: An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it's a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property.
Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again. He's driven his car off a bridge into a lake. He's been mugged in New York City and struck by lightning in a calm country field. Yet despite his best efforts, life clings to him and pulls him ever deeper into the empty existence he cannot bear since his fianc - e's death in a car crash eight years ago. Ross now lives only for the moment he might once again encounter the woman he loves. But in Comtosook, the only discovery Ross can lay claim to is that of Lia Beaumont, a skittish, mysterious woman who, like Ross, is on a search for something beyond the boundary separating life and death. Thus begins Jodi Picoult's enthralling and ultimately astonishing story of love, fate, and a crime of passion.
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