This is either a great book or a blah book, depending on what you are expecting. If you are expecting a really good story about a young girl dealing with all the changes described in the synopsis, you may be very disappointed. If, however, you are looking for a good manuel for teaching adolescents all the Christian values a parent strives to impart, this is the perfect book for you!
"Love Waits" is a series of sermons couched in a story of a 14 year old girl facing a new school and a whole lot of peer pressure. The writing comes across like a friendly pastor telling a story to teach a lesson, while attempting to sound hip. Archaic (in teenage society) words like "dudette" and too many more to name scream "uninformed adult!" and need serious updating.
As the story itself goes, it is an important one but seems only used to connect points. As the book progresses events become unbelievable and pile up fast and furious. A rape, a pregnancy, childhood abuse, a slashing, all within the last few chapters, it's a whirlwind that would probably have been better suited to more than one book as it became overwhelming and muddied up the moral.
The lesson's, however, are very good ones and it's not just the adults who preach them. Kid's preach to each other, Teacher's preach to the kids, kid's preach to parents and adults preach to adults - it's a very inclusive program and one young adolescents could stand to read!
"Love Waits" is a series of sermons couched in a story of a 14 year old girl facing a new school and a whole lot of peer pressure. The writing comes across like a friendly pastor telling a story to teach a lesson, while attempting to sound hip. Archaic (in teenage society) words like "dudette" and too many more to name scream "uninformed adult!" and need serious updating.
As the story itself goes, it is an important one but seems only used to connect points. As the book progresses events become unbelievable and pile up fast and furious. A rape, a pregnancy, childhood abuse, a slashing, all within the last few chapters, it's a whirlwind that would probably have been better suited to more than one book as it became overwhelming and muddied up the moral.
The lesson's, however, are very good ones and it's not just the adults who preach them. Kid's preach to each other, Teacher's preach to the kids, kid's preach to parents and adults preach to adults - it's a very inclusive program and one young adolescents could stand to read!
Reviewed by Marta Morrison for TeensReadToo.com
Cheri just moved from a small town in Nebraska to the big city. Her mother died from cancer two years ago and Cheri is at loose ends. She misses her friends and isn't getting along with her dad all too well.
There is a girl at school who has found out that Cheri is a virgin and is trying to get her hooked up. Cheri doesn't know what to believe.
Then in walks her neighbor, a wonderful grandmotherly-type person who leads Cheri to God. Cheri's world changes, and even though there are still times of trouble, life makes a dramatic turn for the better.
I enjoyed the story a lot but had a hard time with some of the beliefs the author had, even though I am a practicing Christian. It is heavy on fundamental faith values. Some of the dialogue is not very realistic, but the struggles that the characters are dealing with are very real - whether you are a Christian or not.
I got caught up with the story and even if you don't believe all that the characters do, you can come away with a good story and start deciding on what you believe about sex, dealing with death, rape, and teenage pregnancy.
Cheri just moved from a small town in Nebraska to the big city. Her mother died from cancer two years ago and Cheri is at loose ends. She misses her friends and isn't getting along with her dad all too well.
There is a girl at school who has found out that Cheri is a virgin and is trying to get her hooked up. Cheri doesn't know what to believe.
Then in walks her neighbor, a wonderful grandmotherly-type person who leads Cheri to God. Cheri's world changes, and even though there are still times of trouble, life makes a dramatic turn for the better.
I enjoyed the story a lot but had a hard time with some of the beliefs the author had, even though I am a practicing Christian. It is heavy on fundamental faith values. Some of the dialogue is not very realistic, but the struggles that the characters are dealing with are very real - whether you are a Christian or not.
I got caught up with the story and even if you don't believe all that the characters do, you can come away with a good story and start deciding on what you believe about sex, dealing with death, rape, and teenage pregnancy.
