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Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite
Second Take: You Can Rewrite Your Story is an inspirational novel written by E.L. Nelson. Vera has just turned fifty, and the highlight of her day is dining with her daughter, Vlada, and her grandson, Danil. Vlada wants to host a party and invite friends to the celebration, but Vera is not interested. The brilliant moments of her life are memorialized in a series of snapshots taken while she was a young woman. Life had been a wondrous thing: she was deeply in love and her acting career was taking off. Then her mother fell ill, and Vera was called home. Her lover, Vladimir, saw her off at the train station for what was to be a short separation, but Vera's life would change drastically after that trip home.
E.L. Nelson's inspirational novel, Second Take: You Can Rewrite Your Story, had me enthralled from the first descriptions of the marvelous gardens at Vera's family home. Nelson's writing deftly captures the lush blooms and ripening fruit on the bushes and vines and trees, and makes the scene come alive in the reader's mind. We see the somewhat scary grandmother with her switch and Vera's father, the gardener, gently ushering Vera to safety. Vera's story is a hard one, and it's sad to see how her dreams and energy seem to have all but departed. Nelson's story is poignant and powerful, and the settings are marvelous, especially the Theater School's camping trip up in the mountains. Second Take: You Can Rewrite Your Story is about second chances and finding that even the most deeply buried dreams can be dug up, dusted off and shine again. It's brilliant and highly recommended.
