Yvette Broussard is nearing 30 and like many of us has issues. The biggest one is that lately she wakes up screaming. She isn't able to see who the dark figure is in her dream that makes her scream, but senses that the black robed figure is male.
Her father disappeared from her life when she was young. Her mother died just three years ago. She is starting to make progress with her jewelry business, but it is still touch and go. Her sister is getting married. Her love live is pretty much non existent. Let's face it, she is almost 30 and is still trying to get a hang on this life thing like a lot of people her age. So who is it in that dream and why is she having it?
DeLuane Michel is a painter of words. In her work, she floats back and forth in the past and present of her character's, Yvette Broussard, life with ease and skill. What becomes clear, is that Yvette's ten year, off and on again, love affair with the famous Andrew Madden has touched her life and ultimately held her back in many ways.
You can't help but relate at times to Yvette's hope and naiveté, just as there are times that you want to ask her, “What in the heck were you thinking?” You feel that you are on the journey with her while she looks back and adjusts to the choices that she made in her life as well as the ones that are made for her.
You know, there are times that a book is really hard to review, not because they are bad, but because they are so well constructed that it is hard to know where to start. The Aftermath of Dreaming is one of those. The characters are authentic and fully fleshed out and there are times that I could relate to their pain and indecision.
This is one of those books that I ask you to take on faith. If you love a good story of a young woman becoming a women, facing her past with more courage than emotional strength and ultimately taking the reigns in her own life…..this is a great one!
