Book Rating: Best of the Best
I am often suspicious when I start a new book, and I haven’t decided if that is a good thing or a bad thing. Anyway, I was extremely skeptical when I started this one. No reason, really. I just was. But, it didn’t take long before I was consumed by my need to finish this book! This is Regina Jennings first novel, and there’s no way it will be her last. If you are keen on Tamera Alexander’s style of writing, you will like this book. To me, their styles are quite similar.
So, this is a modern take on the Biblical story of Ruth and Boaz. It’s a great, GREAT romance! I smiled, and sighed and giggled my way through it. Now, if you are like me, then you probably like to read these books knowing that there’s gonna be a good kiss sometime before you’ve gone through half the book. Not so here, my friends. You gotta wait a long, long time. I mean, a long time. But whoo-ee, it’s worth it!
Rosa (a lovely, sweet and hard working Mexicana) has married into the Garner family, and embraced the Christian faith. She and her mother-in-law return to Texas from Mexico after their husbands die, only to find they may lose their land due to back-taxes. They do everything they can think of to get the money, but in the end it still isn’t enough. How in the world will they save their land and livelihood?
Enter, Weston Garner. (Do you hear the angel chorus?) He is really the perfect leading man, in my opinion—strong, with dashing good looks, kind, loves God, has a fun personality and is also romantic. Who could want more? Are you crazy? Anyway, their relationship throughout the book grows slowly, but substantially. I felt like the issues they were dealing with were very real, and I appreciated that greatly.
The Christian message of the story was wonderful. Some books have a constsant flow of scriptures, prayer, etc. throughout the book and this one didn’t have as much of that as I have seen before. But the stuff that was there was very good.
If you don’t like this book, I’ll eat my hat.
Happy Reading!
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