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Gail H. (bookwurm70) - Reviews

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Chateau of Echoes
Chateau of Echoes
Author: Siri L. Mitchell
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 1/5/2010
Helpful Score: 1


Siri Mitchell always does an amazing job sharing broken people with us to find their way to God without being preaching, but with showing great depth of emotion through the struggles. This book is no different. We meet a woman who has ignored her relationship with God to live with an atheist husband (now deceased) who meets a man who is a new believer struggling to figure out how to live with his new faith. A side story is about a young girl who is innocent and must find a way to live with her husband who ignores her. Great insight into the lives of ordinary people.


Military Daddy (Mounted Color Guard, Bk 2) (Love Inspired, No 442)
Military Daddy (Mounted Color Guard, Bk 2) (Love Inspired, No 442)
Author: Patricia Davids
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 9/11/2008
Helpful Score: 1


This is a really sweet love story about a young couple who are dealing with the mistakes of their past. I really enjoyed meeting these characters and admired their decision to look to God for strength in their troubles.


The Shape of Mercy
The Shape of Mercy
Author: Susan Meissner
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 4/27/2009
Helpful Score: 3


I just read this book in a day. Not something I normally do, but I couldn't put it down. This is the story of two young women, one 18 year old girl living in a Puritan village near Salem town in the 17th century and a 20 year old college student who is transcribing a 300 year old diary. Each girl is dealing with the issue of how society perceives people, whether good or evil, or rich or poor. Both girls love to write.

Mercy is a young woman who is a believer living through a difficult time in American history, the Salem witch trials. She has already lost half her family and her father is ill. She loves to write stories that are constantly flying through her head, but the puritan society frowns upon this. Mercy does not quite fit in the the Puritan society, but there is a young man who cannot keep his eyes off her.

Lauren is a college student from a privileged family who wants to make her own way in life. She answers an add as a literary assistant and is hired to transcribe Mercy's diary. She has no idea how much Mercy's life will affect her own and challenge her own views of how she herself views people.

Susan's writing is just magical. Even though you know from the beginning that Mercy will die in the witch trials, it is still filled with suspense and things turned out in a very surprising way.


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