Leah Atwood
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- 36
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- 135
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- #150,831
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- 3.7
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- 3
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- 2
This novel is a sweet, inspirational, story about surviving life’s obstacles and finding your way back home as Drew and Amie did to a town they love, and the person they’d loved and lost when much younger. The characters are fun, especially some of the secondary characters like Aunt Sally and Dena.
While I didn’t feel a huge connection, and had a few quibbles, it’s a good read with some great moments. I appreciated the self-analysis in the characters as they try to find their way. The secret Drew is hiding wasn’t big enough to support the tension, but I can sort of see why he’d think so. I’m with Amie, though, in finding it not much of a barrier when it comes out.
I liked how the fact of withholding, trust, and honesty was a focus of the story, which served to make the novel a solid demonstration of how people make up from arguments or misunderstandings. This is a key elements of romances as far as I’m concerned, to teach people how to work at a relationship rather than cutting and running. It’s also a good demonstration of how Christians should behave. The characters are not perfect, nor should they be. Instead, they’re caring and willing to look beyond differences when helping those in need.
Some of the obstacles and sub-plots I enjoyed, such as the budding senior romance, while others I did not. I’m finding the blackmailing pregnancies a far too common theme, especially in inspirational romances. Maybe I hang with a different crowd, but the number of people who would go to such lengths (or pretend to) just to win a marriage that’s likely to be awful are few and far between.
That and the number of typos (which may be fixed already) are the reason I rate this one as only good because some aspects were wonderful. The fight with a potentially career-ending injury, the stubbornness that has Drew lying about his career to his step-dad because he wants to be accepted for who he is rather than just his success, and half-a-dozen other small details helped bring a rich background to the story.
Oh, and I like how Amie’s cheating ex holds to his decision to do the right thing. Yes, he was manipulated, but he chose to stray, and there’s always hope Amie’s sister will mature…along with indications of that being the case. He’s even given a voice so we understand his struggle. Some people take a while to gain perspective, another piece of realism that strengthened the book.
I read this as part of the Whispers of Love collection, which is no longer available, but while I can’t give it an unqualified recommendation, I wouldn’t have regretted the read in any case. There’s a lot of good to it.… (meer)