Archive | December 2017

A Perfect Fit by Karen Jurgens

Dec4

An Invitation To All

A Perfect Fit by Karen Jurgens is a YA Christian romance but is a great read for any age. It is full of godly advice for dating teens and warns of the dangers of promiscuity.

A Perfect Fit has the theme of young love. It can be confusing but we need to keep our eyes and mind focused on God to stop us falling. “Her conscience pricked like barbed wire.”

We are all sinners in need of a Saviour. “He had acted like a Christian.” Christians are just as susceptible as non Christians to falling into sin, if they follow their fleshly desires rather than the teachings of Jesus.

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Christmas At Grey Sage by Phyllis Clark Nichols

Dec4

The Unlikely Christmas Party

Christmas At Grey Sage by Phyllis Clark Nichols is the most delightful Christmas novel. If you only read one Christmas book, make sure it is this one. It really is the essence of Christmas in a book. “Christmas is a time when strangers become friends.”

This book really is Christmas all wrapped up. It is a cosy read. A heart warming read. A read that gives hope and warms hearts. I really want a Christmas at Grey Sage.

The novel opens in 1973 and then leaps to 2005. The reader is drawn in to the story, questioning why the huge gap? There are big hearts but they are broken hearts and we wonder why? “Even after twenty two years, remembering still bought pain.”

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A Purpose True by Gail Kittleson

Dec2

Maintain Hope

A Purpose True by Gail Kittleson is a wonderful epic Christian historical read. It is the third and final book in the Women Of Heartland series and what a marvellous end it was. With action alternating between 1976 and the second world war years, from the shores of America to the French countryside via London, the reader is in for a real treat.

The novel continues to follow the S.O.E operative who paired with the French resistance to fight against the Nazi occupation. Their mission is to disrupt Nazi movements rather than direct combat. The reader witnesses some awful atrocities – atrocities that leave characters nursing nightmares for years. 1976 shows that the fight to bring the perpetrators of evil to justice, continues.

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The Wager by Laura Lamy

Dec2

The Greatest Gift

The Wager by Laura Lamy is a marvellous Christian Regency romantic adventure which has all the elements to entertain, as well as sound Biblical principles.

The Wager being set in England, has a very ‘English’ feel to it, in spite of the author being American. The very ‘Englishness’ of it has been perfectly captured. Unashamedly written in the style reminiscent of Georgette Heyer, The Wager is a jolly good old fashioned adventure with romance thrown in.

Principles of etiquette of the day abound. These are coupled with forward thinking and spirited characters. Several females are very ‘modern misses’ for their time.

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