Summary:
Can graphic designer Gracie Temple have it all: the big city life and a job at a successful advertising firm? Just when she feels life coming together she receives an unknown uncle’s inheritance in a quiet Kansas Mennonite community. The house comes with dark legacy and a cast of interesting neighbors, including farmer Sam Goodrich. Can Gracie shake off the dust of this town or will its secret charms pull her in to stay?
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Publisher: Barbour Books
Age Group: Adult
Pages: 320
Source: NetGalley
Source: NetGalley
Review:
This was a sweet story with a suprising end. I did not realize I was reading Christian fiction until about a quarter of the way through when the main character, Gracie, started praying about her troubles. I like my Christian fiction on the more subtle side---I hate for a book to preach to me.
Gracie is a successful graphic designer whose uncle dies and leaves her his house in a Mennonite community. She goes out to the house to stay for a couple of weeks to try to sell the property and uncovers a long-buried secret. In the process, she meets Sam, a neighbor and friend of her late uncle's, and they try to solve the mystery together. The conclusion of the mystery surprised me, and I love it when that happens.
Simple Secrets had a nice balance of love, mystery, and faith. I would recommend it to fans of Christian fiction and anyone wanting to try Christian fiction for the first time.
This was a sweet story with a suprising end. I did not realize I was reading Christian fiction until about a quarter of the way through when the main character, Gracie, started praying about her troubles. I like my Christian fiction on the more subtle side---I hate for a book to preach to me.
Gracie is a successful graphic designer whose uncle dies and leaves her his house in a Mennonite community. She goes out to the house to stay for a couple of weeks to try to sell the property and uncovers a long-buried secret. In the process, she meets Sam, a neighbor and friend of her late uncle's, and they try to solve the mystery together. The conclusion of the mystery surprised me, and I love it when that happens.
Simple Secrets had a nice balance of love, mystery, and faith. I would recommend it to fans of Christian fiction and anyone wanting to try Christian fiction for the first time.
Just One Gripe:
The tone of the book felt simple at times.
The Best Thing About This Book:
The mystery had a nice surprise at the end.
The mystery had a nice surprise at the end.
Appropriate for a younger audience:
Yes
Yes
Score:
Characters: 3/5
Plot: 3/5
Setting/Imagery: 4/5
Originality: 3/5
Ending: 4/5
Total Score: 17/25
This one sounds like one that may pleasantly surprise me, fab review as always girls :)
ReplyDeleteI agree very much with you that books should never preach. If the writer is a believer, the book will be Christian, even with no overt churchiness about it. That's what I aim to do.
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Sounds PERFECT for me :) Great review darling :)
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