fantasy, historical fiction
Carly finds out that her unborn daughter has a serious heart
defect that is inoperable in 1970. When the opportunity presents itself, she
makes a crazy decision to make a leap of faith and travel into the future for a
chance to save her.
There is so much more to The Dream Daughter than this brief summary
but I can’t say more without ruining it for future readers! The plot is
actually much more complex than I anticipated and I loved it! It is told from
two points of view—Carly’s and her brother-in-law, Hunter’s.
The story pulled me right in from the first page which is
always awesome. And the characters were as well drawn as Diane Chamberlain's other novel I loved—Big Lies in a Small Town. I truly cared about the people in this book and was happily swept
into their lives. I was surprised more than once by turns in the plot! It also
pulled on my heartstrings a couple of times. Bravo, Diane Chamberlain, Bravo!
I’ll definitely be reading more of your novels!
The audiobook narrator was Susan Bennett, the same person
who narrated the other Chamberlain novel I’ve read. Again, she was a really great voice actor. My
main complaint was that she did not have very male-sounding voices. When I picked up the novel after a break,
in the middle of a chapter from Hunter’s point of view, it took me a while to remember she was reading as Hunter rather than Carly. My secondary complaint was that
she sometimes sounded a little robotic. Thankfully, not frequently. I’ll give
her an A- for this one.
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