The Vow

The Vow is a heart-touching story about a couple, Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, who get into a disastrous car crash right before Thanksgiving in 1993. Kim Carpenter, who was at the time a baseball coach, had severe injuries. These injuries included shards of glass from the car's sunroof being wedged into his back, and damage to his ribs/lungs. Krickitt Carpenter suffered from great damage to her brain and, at the sight of the accident, the EMT's did not believe she could survive. Kim received medical attention and was healed fairly quickly. Krickitt, on the other hand, slipped in and out of a coma and was hooked up to a vast collection of tubes. When she awoke from her coma, she did not know the year, who the president was, or that she was married. She had to learn to walk, correctly talk, and how to carry out everyday tasks such as getting dressed again. She partook in rehab from a long amount of time. Kim was by her side the whole way through, even though she had no idea who he was.
Kim suffered great emotional pain. He and his wife had only been married nearly three months and her memory of him was non-existance. To her, he was a stranger. He had to make her fall in love with him again. Will he succeed or will they go their own way?

The Vow touched my heart, and I could not stop reading. I had to know what happened next. My heart reached out to the Carpenters and to all affected by the accident. Kim Carpenter wrote the book, so I was able to explore his emotions during the difficult times and I was able to hear his personal thoughts. I was excited when he was excited, sad when he was sad, angry when he was angry, and so on. The story had many twists and turns that constantly kept me thrilled to see what would happen next.
-Elizabeth Elliott