What would you give up for the people you love?
When Megan Taylor, a single mother and artist, receives the shocking news that her cancer has r... read full description
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Feb 06, 2012
Rachelle
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This book was a highly emotional read. The main plot dealt with Megan's courageous decision when cancer returned to ravage her bones. She struggled with guilt, fear and the wish to spare her daughter, but in the process pushed her daughter away.
Olivia was a believable and normal teenage girl, caught between an intense love and dependence on her mother and the usual angst of being a teenager. She yearned to be included in her mother's confidence and felt rebuffed when her mother conti More...
Olivia was a believable and normal teenage girl, caught between an intense love and dependence on her mother and the usual angst of being a teenager. She yearned to be included in her mother's confidence and felt rebuffed when her mother conti More...
Dec 13, 2011
Taslim
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Megan’s Way started off with an intriguing scene at a carnival; it was a believable introduction with all the sights and smells of a carnival and an ominous visit to the tent we are all inexplicably drawn to: the psychic card-reader. The intrigue continues through the first quarter of the book and then it just kind of fizzles away throughout the remainder of the book. The overall plot was a journey of twists and turns, heartaches and few resolutions. There was one particular twist that left
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Nov 21, 2011
Louise
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What would you give up for the people you love?
When Megan Taylor, a single mother and artist, receives the shocking news that her cancer has returned, she'll be faced with the most difficult decision she's ever had to make. She'll endure an emotional journey, questioning her own moral and ethical values, and the decisions she'd made long ago. The love she has for her daughter, Olivia, and her closest friends, will be stretched and frayed.
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What would you give up for the people you love?
When Megan Taylor, a single mother and artist, receives the shocking news that her cancer has returned, she'll be faced with the most difficult decision she's ever had to make. She'll endure an emotional journey, questioning her own moral and ethical values, and the decisions she'd made long ago. The love she has for her daughter, Olivia, and her closest friends, will be stretched and frayed.
Meanwhile, More...
Oct 02, 2011
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“She sat up abruptly. Okay. That’s it. I can’t tell anyone. What’s done is done. I can’t tell Olivia, and Jack and Peter don’t need to know. It would only hurt them. And what would they think of me? of my deceiving them? It’s better left unsaid.”
“His voice was just above a whisper, deep and solemn. ‘There are some friends who are always there for you, even when they are not present. There are others that are always present, and yet, somehow never there.’”
“One will be released, and retu More...
“His voice was just above a whisper, deep and solemn. ‘There are some friends who are always there for you, even when they are not present. There are others that are always present, and yet, somehow never there.’”
“One will be released, and retu More...
Sep 27, 2011
James
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I picked up Megan's Way by Melissa Foster on the recommendation of a friend. Although this is not the type of book I usually read, I decided to give it a try. Overall I enjoyed the story about the relationship between a single mother who is stricken with cancer and her teenage daughter. I think there was just enough teen-angst and frustration on both sides to make the story real. Although I found parts of the book a little harder to swallow, the thing that stuck with me from Megan's Way was t
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Sep 20, 2011
Maria
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What would you do if you knew that a new round of cancer treatment would only delay the inevitable? Would you stop treatment to save your daughter from the anguish of seeing you deteriorate?
This is the decision that Megan makes - she wants to go in her own terms and in her own time. She wants her 14 year old daughter Olivia to remember her full of life and not as a shadow of who she once was.
In Megan's Way, Megan knows that her friends Holly and Jack will take good care More...
This is the decision that Megan makes - she wants to go in her own terms and in her own time. She wants her 14 year old daughter Olivia to remember her full of life and not as a shadow of who she once was.
In Megan's Way, Megan knows that her friends Holly and Jack will take good care More...
Sep 19, 2011
Jess
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Jul 19, 2011
Deborah
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I first want to share with my readers the personal perspective I bring to this review of “Megan’s Way.” Some 29 years ago I was widowed as a young woman with three children under the ages of 9. My precious young husband died of melanoma that had metastasized to major organs: we had several months to prepare for his death. This came after the original cancer of 11 years in the first year of our marriage. So, I’m someone well acquainted with cancer’s toll on a person and those who love them. I rea
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Jul 03, 2011
Karen B
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I loved this book. It was inspiring, full of love and hope in what could have been a "hopeless" situation. What I especially liked was the author's characters.
Megan's love for her daughter and her friends is so warmly presented as are their love for her. How would a person who is dying deal with leaving those they loved and wanting to spare them the most pain and yet deal with her own feelings, knowing that there is no cure and that she will die, not to mention her physical p More...
Megan's love for her daughter and her friends is so warmly presented as are their love for her. How would a person who is dying deal with leaving those they loved and wanting to spare them the most pain and yet deal with her own feelings, knowing that there is no cure and that she will die, not to mention her physical p More...
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Jun 30, 2011
Laurie
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Megan’s Way by Melissa Foster
Megan’s Way is a very poignant love story between mother and daughter. Megan has been a single mother to 14 year old, Olivia, and the two of them are and have been inseparable since the day Olivia was born. The love they share is unlike any other.
Megan gets hit hard a second time around with a cancer she fought so hard to get survive from the first time. It’s back. Megan knows it is back. Olivia knows it is back without her mother even having to t More...
Megan’s Way is a very poignant love story between mother and daughter. Megan has been a single mother to 14 year old, Olivia, and the two of them are and have been inseparable since the day Olivia was born. The love they share is unlike any other.
Megan gets hit hard a second time around with a cancer she fought so hard to get survive from the first time. It’s back. Megan knows it is back. Olivia knows it is back without her mother even having to t More...
Jun 24, 2011
Alison
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Secrets - people keep them for all sorts of justified reasons. Sometimes it is to spare another and sometimes to spare themselves. Megan's Way is a novel full of secrets. On the surface the secrets are to spare others pain, but if you look closely you will see that each of the people also hope to spare themselves the pain and discomfort of admitting the secrets held deep.
Megan Taylor is a single mother who has just found that her cancer has returned. She suffers silently each day, beca More...
Megan Taylor is a single mother who has just found that her cancer has returned. She suffers silently each day, beca More...
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May 20, 2011
Sheila
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Melissa Foster’s Megan’s Way (a finalist in the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards) deals with death, secrets, and loving relationships, all viewed from an intriguingly different, non-judgmental point of view. Mom Megan is close friends with Holly and her husband, but even closer to daughter Olivia. But Olivia’s teen years are shaping up to be trouble. Mom’s not communicating enough, doesn’t listen, doesn’t tell, and Olivia turns worry for her mother into worrying behavior, sending their rel
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May 08, 2011
Fran
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Megan’s Way
Psychics are supposed to tell you what the future holds for you. As we meet Megan in 1988 she and her friend have their fortunes or future’s predicted by a woman who sees death in the cards for one of them. Frightened and fearful they both run out without learning or understanding the truth behind her words. Eleven years later we meet Megan again with her daughter Olivia about to go to flea market. Alerted to the fact that something is wrong with Megan the reader become More...
Psychics are supposed to tell you what the future holds for you. As we meet Megan in 1988 she and her friend have their fortunes or future’s predicted by a woman who sees death in the cards for one of them. Frightened and fearful they both run out without learning or understanding the truth behind her words. Eleven years later we meet Megan again with her daughter Olivia about to go to flea market. Alerted to the fact that something is wrong with Megan the reader become More...
Nov 01, 2009
Jeanette
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Megan's Way by Melissa Foster is an emotionally moving book especially for a first time, self-publish novel. I cried at nearly every turn of the page. Most books I read where the story jumps around from one characters point of view to the other get confusing and the story is lost trying to keep up with who says what and who did what. Melissa does a great job in bringing you into the life of her characters and keeps the story rolling smoothly.
The main character, Megan,is in remission fr More...
The main character, Megan,is in remission fr More...
Jan 02, 2012
Shari
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Megan Taylor is an artist and single mother to 14 year old Olivia, when she receives the news that her cancer has returned, and it's not curable. She is faced with the difficult decision of whether to continue on with her treatment or not. It's an emotional journey, and she questions her own moral and ethical values, and decisions she had made long ago. If certain secrets came to life, they could put Olivia life, and the lives of Megan's closest friend, into turmoil.
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Aug 24, 2011
Denna
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Nov 26, 2011
Cheryl
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MEGAN'S WAY by Melissa Foster
Published by Outskirts Press
ISBN-10: 1432744429
ISBN-13: 978-1432744427
At the request of the author and WOW Tours, a digital edition was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion.
Synopsis (from Amazon): What would you give up for the people you love?
When Megan Taylor, a single mother and artist, receives the shocking news that her cancer has returned, she'll be faced with the most difficult decision she's ev More...
May 06, 2011
Carol
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I loved book so much that I don't know where to start!!
Do not miss out on reading this book. Read it before the
movie comes out!
Melissa Foster has a talent of putting raw emotions into words. By narration, conversation and revealing the characters' thoughts, she wove a story of unique family finding itself.
Rarely, have I been so immersed in a book. Megan, the mother, Olivia, the daughter and Megan's close friends all became real to me. Megan is torn between pro More...
Do not miss out on reading this book. Read it before the
movie comes out!
Melissa Foster has a talent of putting raw emotions into words. By narration, conversation and revealing the characters' thoughts, she wove a story of unique family finding itself.
Rarely, have I been so immersed in a book. Megan, the mother, Olivia, the daughter and Megan's close friends all became real to me. Megan is torn between pro More...
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Sep 07, 2011
Stacy
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Before I read this book, I watched the video trailer of it. It can be found here for those who wish to view it, and I suggest that you do. http://www.melissafoster.com/content/meg...
The video intrigued me to read this book. Not knowing more then what I had seen in the video, I began to read and found myself totally engulfed in this story. Author Melissa Foster not only wrote an inspiring story of love and loss but captivated me to the point that I have now put this book on my top 10 More...
The video intrigued me to read this book. Not knowing more then what I had seen in the video, I began to read and found myself totally engulfed in this story. Author Melissa Foster not only wrote an inspiring story of love and loss but captivated me to the point that I have now put this book on my top 10 More...
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Aug 24, 2011
Anette
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This was an amazing easy read that quickly got inside me and made me feel something for these characters. Not many books bring on emotions in me, but this one did. If you are a mother with a daughter, whom you are close with, this is a MUST read for you. It will make you feel especially grateful for what you have!! It really portrays the love between a mother and her child, and that she would do anything, even in death to protect them!
This author writes about the difficulties of dying befo More...
This author writes about the difficulties of dying befo More...
Feb 24, 2010
Stephanie
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Let me just start by saying that I LOVED this book. I have never read a book that truly touches you soul so deep that it will everlasting effects. As someone who watched a loved one die from cancer I know how hard it is to witness. Megan deeply loved her daughter and her friends and although she made the choice on her own I think she made the right one. There are few people in this world that have friends that they are so close to but Megan had a great set of them. The bond that she had with Oli
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Jul 20, 2011
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We both read this book for review. We were going to do our own separate thoughts, but the more we discussed the book, the more we realized that our thoughts aligned on the book and how we felt about it.
Megan's Way is a tear jerker, no way around it. So if you read it, be prepared to have a box of kleenex next to you.
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We both read this book for review. We were going to do our own separate thoughts, but the more we discussed the book, the more we realized that our thoughts aligned on the book and how we felt about it.
Megan's Way is a tear jerker, no way around it. So if you read it, be prepared to have a box of kleenex next to you.
Megan is a singl More...
Sep 05, 2009
Debbie
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My Thoughts: This is Melissa Foster's first book and I hope there will be many more to come. If you've ever lost someone to cancer or have cared for someone going through chemo, this is a very emotional and sensitive book to read, it's so dead-on to what you feel and go through when you're involved in something like that. I started crying on page 90 and did not stop until the end of the book, I am sitting here crying as I try to type my review.
The characters in this book are so real, More...
The characters in this book are so real, More...
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Jun 19, 2011
Denise
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Before I bought this book I had followed it around different blogs. I remember reading that this was definitely a have your hanky ready read and I was not disappointed.
The synopsis from Goodreads states:
"What would you give up for the people you love?
When Megan Taylor, a single mother and artist, receives the shocking news that her cancer has returned, she'll be faced with the most difficult decision she's ever had to make. She'll endure an emotional journey, More...
The synopsis from Goodreads states:
"What would you give up for the people you love?
When Megan Taylor, a single mother and artist, receives the shocking news that her cancer has returned, she'll be faced with the most difficult decision she's ever had to make. She'll endure an emotional journey, More...
Oct 23, 2011
Naty
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Megan’s Way is a true page turner. Let me place this in true perspective for you. I obtained this as an e-book, which is kind of a new concept for me, and my Kindle application is in my phone and I sat for hours in that little screen until I finished because I could not put it down. That’s what I mean about a true page turner.
This book has drama, action, love and a gut wrenching plot. I’ll try not to spoil much of it, but this is the very sad story of a mother of a teenager,her journe More...
This book has drama, action, love and a gut wrenching plot. I’ll try not to spoil much of it, but this is the very sad story of a mother of a teenager,her journe More...
Mar 03, 2010
Julianne
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Megan's Way intially felt like a story about a teenage girl's process of coping with her mother's end-of-life decisions and subsequent death. I made it through half of the book believing I would recommend this to teenage girls who cope with hard family issues...Olivia and Megan had a wonderful closeness, but were also shown to have their typical mother-daughter issues. This, to me, would have made it a great emotional journey
Instead it was a story of deceipt, torn love affairs(albeit More...
Instead it was a story of deceipt, torn love affairs(albeit More...
Sep 20, 2011
Laura
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Oct 03, 2011
Sarah
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When Megan receives the bad news that her cancer has returned, and is more aggressive and advanced than before, she struggles with what to do. Her daughter Olivia is devastated, not sure how to react. Together they must find a way to come to peace with each other, the current situation, and their complicated past.
This was a very emotional, character driven story all about living in the moment. It reminded me of a Nicholas Sparks book (or movie). As a movie, it would be classified as More...
This was a very emotional, character driven story all about living in the moment. It reminded me of a Nicholas Sparks book (or movie). As a movie, it would be classified as More...
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Aug 17, 2011
Melinda
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It’s not often an author can write dialogue or a certain scene that will hit me “right there” to where I actually shed a tear, but author Melissa Foster did make me cry – more than once – while I read her debut novel Megan’s Way. This was a good thing. It’s always a nice treat to me when an author can make me feel any emotion strongly – be it sadness, joy, anger, fear or so on.
I always find it interesting to learn different viewpoints on life and death, and the author covered this ma More...
I always find it interesting to learn different viewpoints on life and death, and the author covered this ma More...
Jun 16, 2011
Coreena
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Megan's Way is an interesting and different book about choices and secrets. It is an emotional, thoughtful story focusing people, examining them and watching them interact rather than thrusting them into an action filled plot (this is not to say that there is no action, but it seems to me that exploring the characters is the point). Each of the characters in the novel are forced to look within themselves and examine past decisions, their morals and values, and come to terms with themselv More...
