The Healer

The Healer is the next book in Dee Henderson's O'Malley series, and the two protagonists are Rachel O'Malley and Jack's boss Cole Parker.

I forget the official title of Rachel's job, but her specialty is helping kids through trauma. She's good at helping anyone through trauma, really. She's also there for her own family as they deal with Jennifer's cancer.

There's a minor problem, though. Everyone relies on Rachel, including Rachel herself. All the years she's been doing this, she's never relied on anyone else, and she finally seems to be reaching her breaking point. Even though she accepted Christ in the previous book, Christianity is so new to her, and it scares her to know that there's nothing she can do in return to merit the love of Jesus - and she's facing a similar problem with her current romantic situation.

To be honest, I don't remember too much of Cole in this book. I remember a lot about him from the last book, but not so much in this one. He's strong physically, mentally, and spiritually. He becomes a shoulder for Rachel to lean on, and boy does she need it.

Aside from Jennifer's cancer, there's another crisis Rachel ends up in. I think the book started off with a flood, but the biggest mass trauma started in a school shooting. And if memory serves, there was another murder incident too.

So, yeah. Drama. Lots of it. It's been so long since I've read the book, I don't remember the finer details of my opinion towards this book. But I'm sure it was decent, at the least. =)

...Wow, that wasn't very convincingly put, was it? But I mean it; I'm sure it was pretty good overall.

Ohhh, wait, I just remembered another tragic event that happens in this book. Yeah, this is probably the most depressing book in the series. Maybe that's why I don't remember much of it: Too much sadness, so I made myself try to forget it?