Book Review: "Things I Never Told You"

Things I Never Told You by Beth Vogt is the story of how one family deals with death, esp the surviving twin losing her sister and the secrets she kept from the family (which isn't as dark and ominous as the back of the book makes it seem).

This story is told by each of the sisters telling it from their viewpoint. I was so confused at first as the author had them all intertwined and I had to keep going back to see who was "talking" and what was going on.

Adding to that stress is the oldest getting cancer. This brings them closer together where forgiveness and healing begin.

This was a bit of a hard read for me, but once I got going it was easier to figure out what was going on.

Tyndale House Publishers provided me with a complimentary copy of this book for my honest review.

Book Review "Under a Cloudless Sky"

Under a Cloudless Sky by Chris Fabry is a story that sucks you in from the very beginning and you don't want to put it down until the last page. This author is amazing in his writings that keep you captivated to the end and ends in a way that you didn't see coming. Those are the stories I love...when there is no way I could have guessed the ending.

This story combines happenings in two years...1933 and 2004 and intertwines them together until the end. In 1933, it begins to tell about two girls Ruby and Bean who live in a mining town. In 2004 Hollis Beasley is standing up to Coleman Coal and Energy who have been trying to buy his land on the mountain to mine coal.

I can't tell too much of the story without giving it away, but I highly recommend reading this story. I enjoyed it so much that I looked for more stories from Mr. Fabry and saw that I had read another of his books June Bug that I had enjoyed very much. I am definitely going to be searching the library for more of his books.

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Book Review: "The Promise of Breeze Hill"

"The Promise of Breeze Hill" by Pam Hillman is the first book I have received from Tyndale House Publishers to read and write a review. This story was very slow for me. If you like very detailed stories, you would like this, but for me it was so much so, that it lost me part of the time.

The story is set in Natchez, MS in 1791. Connor O'Shea is wanting to bring his younger brothers to America, so he puts himself to be sold as a carpenter in return for passage for his brothers. Isabella Bartholomew of Breeze Hill Plantation buys him.

The plantation is having all kinds of problems. Isabella's brother was killed, her father badly burned when someone burned their field and part of the house. That is just the beginning. Connor realizes someone is out to hurt the Bartholomew family and works to get to the bottom of it.

The story has lots of plots to make it interesting, it just took a long time to read through all the adjectives.

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