Sunspots

Author: Karen S. Bell
Published By: K.S.B.
Age Recommended:  Adult
Reviewed By:  Arlena Dean
Rating: 5

Review:

Karen S. Bell's "Sunspots" was a Wow of a excellent fiction/ghost read.  I can only say that this was one of those novels I couldn't put down until finished with this well written novel. This is a story of Aurora Celeste Sunny Goldberg (Celeste Abbott).   How she could have all of those.... three first  names is a story within itself.   Aurora is born to wonderful parents that never married.  Being brought up in New York..she tries out for  acting and is also  works for a temp agency when Aurora meets Jake Stein...falls in  love ...follows 'her destiny' and becomes his lovely wife only to have to move to Austin, Texas...while giving up her acting career.   Aurora is so happy...she has her best friend..Jake however, this happiness would soon end..for her husband dies  suddenly (was it suicide or murder?) after only two years of marriage and leaves her in a world that would
only take her away...if he hadn't been for her mom, dear friend...Marina, Paul, Sophie, Thula,  Viola and Clif Chance Clifford Buckley..yes he has three name too...and that is another part of this wonderful story.    For this love of Jake had definitely  become 'an obession' of Aurora and would their be help for this poor soul?   Will Aurora be able to "accept her fate and the many  secrets that will be  revealed about Jakes' true character?"  For she had not only lost her husband(her best friend)  but herself...Aurora was no longer who she thought she was...Is she in a time travel... ghost?...or the past, present or future?  Who are these people Aurora is seeing?  What does Aurora's new home have to do with all of this?  Just who is Viola, Georgina, Clara, Max Stein, Gustav Jacobs and Constantina?

This novel offers up such characters that I would not want to leave out a few...such as Owen Burns..Jake's lawyer and his Owen's twin sister.. Charlotte
Burn Griffin, Vanessa, Margaret (Jake's sisters) and mom...Claudia.  Now, this is where I say to you that in order to know what, where, why and who ..you must pick up "Sunspots" for you will not be disappointed in seeing what is in the works for dear  Aurora.  Will she be able to  pick herself up and see that "The person who I had lost was not  Jake because I never really had him? ...It was me...I had lost myself  in the aura of Jake."  Aurora starts to  take charge  of her life and goes back to school to get her MBA but what will she find their? ....a professor, cowboy, rancher and just how does this help her?   I will stop here and let you read for yourself about this wonder read. 

"Sunspots" was indeed a wonderful well written novel that was intriguing
from the very beginning till the end.   It was definitely "a story of loss, redemption and ghosts" that did haunt the life of Aurora Celeste Sunny Goldberg.... and yes I would recommend this read as a excellent read. Thank you  Karen Bell for letting me read early... your novel:  "Sunspots."