Archive | October 2017

The Break by Marian Keyes

Oct14

Real Life Is Messy

The Break by Marian Keyes is a contemporary story about love, life and families. Marian Keyes shows that life is not easy. At times it is complicated and messy, and not always black and white.

The novel is written in the first person from the point of view of forty something Amy. The reader ‘experiences’ life through her eyes. We ‘feel’ life crushing her down – the weight of children, parents, work and life in general.

The love of a mother radiates throughout the novel. We become acquainted with Amy’s heart and recognise the great love and fierce protection she has for her children.

Grief can have far reaching effects. The reader views this from afar, and although detached ourselves, we ‘feel’ saddened at how life is progressing for some of the characters.

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I Know Where She Is by S.B. Caves

Oct13

Disturbing And Unnerving

I Know Where She Is by S.B. Caves is a riveting psychological thriller that will mess with your mind and your emotions.

The novel is menacing – bad guys have families and faces just like good guys. How do you tell them apart?

The question of trust arises. The very people who should be keeping girls safe, fail them and let them down. There is misguided trust. People are loyal to what they know, fearing the unknown.

What is truth? What is imagined? Who can be trusted? Characters and readers wrestle with these questions.

Corruption is rife. Just who are the good guys?

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Found In Flight by Angelica Hart

Oct12

Lean On Me

Found In Flight by Angelica Hart is a Christian historical romance. It is the second book in the Baxter Homestead Romance series but can be read as a stand-alone. Found In Flight gives the back story to some of the characters in book one before colliding with the end of that story. It was a very clever technique that enables the reader to witness the same action but from a different point of view.

Once again there is the theme of the plight of women. They are seen as weak but are not as weak as some men believe. There is a wonderful matriarch who appealed to my sense of humour with her tobacco spitting habits!

Our past does not define us. We learn from our past and then move on into our future.

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Not All Cowboys Are Cruel by Angelica Hart

Oct12

The Magic Of The Ring

Not All Cowboys Are Cruel by Angelica Hart is a Christian historical romance which I enjoyed. It is the first book in the Baxter Homestead series.

The novel shows the importance of names. A name change signifies a change of circumstances or character. Names speak of who we are.

We believe words spoken over us. Sometimes we are the ones speaking negativity into our lives. We need to break those chains and thinking patterns and breathe life into our situations. “Perhaps he was more than just what had been taken from him.”

The past may have a hold over us. We need to learn from the past but not live in it. The future awaits us.

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