Oceans Apart
Written by Karen Kingsbury
Narrated by Joyce Bean
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
A forgotten secret. A shocking discovery. A sacrifice of love that will bring Connor Evans to his knees.
A story of hope and redemption from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury.
Airline pilot Connor Evans and his wife, Michele, seem to be the perfect couple living what looks like a perfect life. Then a plane goes down in the Pacific Ocean. One of the casualties is Kiahna Siefert, a flight attendant Connor knew well. Too well. Kiahna’s will is very clear: before her seven-year-old son, Max, can be turned over to the state, he must spend the summer with the father he’s never met, the father who doesn’t know he exists: Connor Evans. Now will the presence of one lonely child and the truth he represents destroy Connor’s family? Or is it possible for healing and hope to appear in the shape of a seven-year-old boy?
“[Kingsbury’s] ability to accurately express life’s sorrows and grief through her characters’ inner dialogue rings true time and again.” —Publishers Weekly on Every Now & Then
“Her emotionally charged novels often contain a strong romantic component and feature Christians at odds with their everyday world. This title is no exception. Recommend this one to readers who enjoy well-drawn characters and contemporary settings.” —Library Journal on The Baxters Take Four
Karen Kingsbury
Karen Kingsbury, #1 New York Times bestselling novelist, is America’s favorite inspirational storyteller, with more than twenty-five million copies of her award-winning books in print. Her last dozen titles have topped bestseller lists and many of her novels are under development as major motion pictures. Her Baxter Family books have been developed into a TV series now available everywhere. Karen is also an adjunct professor of writing at Liberty University. In 2001 she and her husband, Don, adopted three boys from Haiti, doubling their family in a matter of months. Today the couple has joined the ranks of empty nesters, living in Tennessee near four of their adult children.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Heart wrenching at times. All about love and forgiveness. Enjoyed immensely.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Loved the story. You might want to do a bit more research when addressing medical information. Otherwise, another winner!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Such a wonderful story! I loved it & the ending was fabulous!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The little boy was such a sweetheart. Well written. Engaging story.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So endearing you can't help but fall in love with 8 year old, Max, one of the lead characters. Narrators are 5 Star. I'm not the Spiritual, Christian sort which you find heavily threaded throughout this book; but - ìt is so well produced, it sneaks up on you. Think I'll go þo church tomorrow. Great audio book, I'm definitely checking out others by this author and her publisher.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautiful I couldn’t stop listening to it definitely had my emotions all over the place!!!! Amazing
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I enjoyed this book so much I had to read it a second time. The truth about love and forgiveness, and the reality about the struggles of life were covered well. A pleasant reading.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved it. Sweet story with a lesson to learn.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It was dealing with REAL problems with God’s help and made the power of forgiveness come alive to me!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wonderful book. Christian based. I laughed and cried. The reader was very good also.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Everything- Forgiveness and love -Happy blessed ending or rather new beginning !
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I was SO moved by this book. I'm not a teary person, but I cried 5 times, while reading this book. I also stayed up all night reading it, because the content was so compelling.Max is 7 years old, he has the perfect life with his mom Kiahna, who is a stewardess and his best friend in the whole world, Buddy, his dog. His mother's and his friend Raimey who has looked after Max, for his whole life. Raimey is an older lady with complicated health issues. Everything was perfect, until one day, Max's mommy didn't come home.Raimey took care of him and Buddy, as Raimey notified Kiahna's attorney that she was dead. Raimey found that Kiahna's will stipulated that Max spend two weeks with his biological father, before he be put up for adoption. Max has never heard of, or seen his father. It has always just been him and mommy; with Raimey helping out some.Kiahna and Conner met at an airport in Honolulu, when Conner, a commercial airline pilot gets stranded at the airport, when a hurricane is blowing around. One thing led to another, after a series of misunderstandings and the following day, Conner flew home to his family.Kiahna & Max lived in their own, special little world. It devastated everyone around Max, because he was such a wonderful little boy with all of this tragedy all around him.Highly recommend.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book by an amazing author. Heartwarming story.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Every one of Karen Kingsbury's books makes me cry and this was no exception. It was a predictable book, not one of Kingsbury's best but still a good book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Top Christian Fiction author in my opinion. This books tugs at your heartstrings. It is about a soldier's child he fathered while overseas. His wife isn't ready to accept the orphaned child while the child wants desperately to have a family.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Plot Summary: What happens, When & Where, Central Characters, Major ConflictsMax, a little 7 year old boy, loves his dog Buddy and his mother Kiahna. But his world is shattered when his mother's plane crashes over the ocean and she is killed. However Max has a dad that he knows nothing about--and who knows nothing about him. Conner Evans' life seems about as perfect as it can get at the moment. He has two beautiful girls, a loving and adoring wife, and a job he enjoys as an airline pilot. The only flaw is his estranged relationship with his dad. But then he gets a phone call from a lawyer in Hawaii that rocks his world. His one time, brief affair with a flight attendent resulted in a child--Max--who is now left alone after his mothers death. Her dying wish was that Max spend two weeks with Conner before being placed in a foster home. Conner and his wife Michelle now face the crisis of their lives, having to decide on the fate of their marriage in the light of these revealations--and the fate of a hearbroken boy.Style Characteristics: Pacing, clarity, structure, narrative devices, etc.Kingsbury is the master of tugging at the heartstrings with emotionally laden situations. Conner, Michelle, and even Max seem like the people next door in their ordinariness and realistic reactions to these events. Kingsbury also weaves in the element of faith, with Max being a strong believer in God, but Michelle and Conner being somewhat lapsed in their faith. A butterfly metaphor is used to symbolize the second chance at a new life that predicatably occurs by the end of the story.How Good is it?Emotionally moving, yet predictable and tied up a little too neatly.