by Tammy L. Gray
This romance sucked me in right away. The proverbial
preacher’s kid gets mixed up with the bad girl in town. But this almost-cliché is not what it might seem.
I love how the author shows the depth of struggle in both characters. The
bad-girl who wants to be good, and the good-guy who lost his reputation help
each other discover more about the God who created them both, and who continues
to draw them each near to Himself.
It’s a beautiful story about second chances and becoming the
person God wants us to be. It addresses the difference between caring what others
think, and caring for others. It’s about miscommunication, lack of communication,
and communicating truth to the ones we care most about.
I love the ins and outs of this budding relationship, the
uncovering of secrets from the past, and the handling of guilt. I think
everyone can relate to this story on some level – because we’ve all been the
bad girl and we’ve all been the goody-two-shoes for at least a moment, if not
years at a time. It’s about the wrongs others dish out to us, and forgiveness,
whether they are sorry or not. More than anything, it’s about how we love.
Highly recommend! No wonder this title won the Rita award! The author’s style is so pleasing - the
story is easy to read, and the characters still linger in my mind. What’s great
about that? Well, she wrote another book with some of the same characters! Yay!
My Unexpected Hope is the next one.
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Jennifer Fromke writes from NC,
where she pines for colder temperatures all year long. Northerners by
upbringing, she and her husband of 26 years have raised three Southern-ish
children. Jennifer
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