Everyone always takes a new year as a chance to "start new" or as so many resolutions show... to make a change in their life. Richard Paul Evans The Walk showed those same changes but as a result of losing everything that the main character felt was important: money, house, job, stuff.
The gist of the story mimics so many others... main character loses wife to horrendous accident, business partner steals business while he cares for ailing and soon to be dead wife, bank forecloses on house and it's sold... etc... The idea is cliche and a little trite.
The main character in The Walk however, decides to go on a walk. He leaves his personal affairs to be "cleaned up" by his secretary (who is secretly in love with him)and he walks. His plan is to go to Key West from Washington--the state. Yes, we know when he begins that he won't make it as there aren't enough pages in the book to cover that entire journey.
Along the way he meets interesting people who help him discover that life is actually worth living and ultimately save his life.
Now, my skepticism shows through, but I have to admit that I like Evans' stories: The Christmas Box, The Christmas Box Miracle, The Gift... etc. but at the beginning of a new year and home from school due to an unexpected blizzard it simply didn't uplift me the way his other novels have.
I know that the message isn't always ours to know and that everything happens for a reason, but even in novels sometimes that just seems like too big a stretch..
Until the next novel.....
M
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