Sharene: Death: A Prerequisite For Life

Rocky Wilson
iUniverse (2009)
ISBN 9781440117855
Reviewed by Carol Hoyer, PhD, for Reader Views (4/09)

In a time when most believe in a higher power, the author gives us a story about innocence taken away in just one second. Where was the higher power to protect us and how does that impact our lives?

Sharene Marsena is a wonderful teenager, full of life and lives within the holiness of God. In just one brief encounter from Evon Trask she is violated and her innocence is no longer there. Her whole life changes as she looks at her now blackened life and those she loves. She is afraid to tell anyone that she is infected. She stays away from any relationships and becomes hardened.

Through the help of her pastor she starts to recover emotionally, but yet has to testify against the animal that took her life. She does things she would have never done before and trusts no one.

When she encounters her old love Jordan, she is trying to explain to him what has happened and he is trying to help her. His intentions are to help, but he crosses the line and she can no longer be there with him.

Little does she know that somewhere there is a woman who looks just like her that has also been taken advantage of yet, she loves her lifestyle. When Sharene is tempted to go underground to solve the mystery of the identical person, she is in danger and is fighting for her life.

This is a fast-paced book with vivid descriptions of scenes and the thought process of victims. Rocky Wilson catches you in his first page of “Sharene.” The author shows that through the grace of God we can forgive, when no one will believe we did.

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