Aransas Evening – My Book Review

Aransas Evening is a superbly written book about the family you have and the family you create. It’s a book that is similar to how real life is in many ways, for example, people come and go in your life and you don’t often know why they left. It’s a story about loss, unsureness, a tragedy in the wake of a bad-ass hurricane and most of all friendship.

Author Jeff Hampton set his story in the island town of Port Aransas. He captured perfect moments that show-off the community in such a way that it made it me actually start looking up real estate options on the island. I miss riding that ferry. I do miss the coast when it comes to the sand and the crashing waves – not the mosquitoes though. Thankfully, Jeff did not include the latter or I might’ve started itching.

In life so, many of us do have uncertainties regarding our futures given our pasts. Jeff’s well-written story weaves those insecurities into the daily lives of Sam, Allie, Shelly, and Dave with some minor characters in the mix. It’s what makes the story flow so well. It’s almost as if you are seeing a movie.

The best part is that given all the bad in the make-believe world of Aransas Evening it shows that goodness does still prevail and that friends who become family will always have the best interests for their friends.

An additional note – this book is a great example of a self-published book from the binding to the paper to the writing and to the editing.

“It wasn’t the size of his life that mattered; it was the quality of his life and the focus of his heart.”