Review: Imagine My Surprise . . .
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2014
Since I am not a Christian I wasn’t really looking for a Christian book to read I was looking for a good book to read I found this one. Imagine my surprise when I realized it was a Christian woman’s book. The end result for me is it changed my mind about some Christian literature.I feel that this is a great story I enjoy the dynamic of running the parallel storylines I thought that was an interesting twist.The characters especially the two female characters who inadvertently or so it appears by the story are both te heroines and protagonist in their from own stories. It is a pretty complex plot line and I live in fear of writing spoilers so I always askew the opportunity to rehash the plot. That is what the author has the blurb for far be it from me to add or eliminate the info they think is pertinent to your decision making.What I will say is that the dialogue is introspective, funny, endearing and real. This book is really about choices and how to address those choices, the lack of those choices and the outcome of those choices. There is a bit of a moral attached to the storyline but it stays far away from the preachy approach.More it’s like sitting down for lunch and having a friend tell you a story and wrap it up with a life lesson. But it is all done in a truly fictional style so again I have to stress this is not a preachy woman’s Christian book but rather a contemporary women’s fiction book which happen to be Christian based if that makes sense.I enjoyed the read and appreciate the opening of my mind it gave me to explore other titles in this genre with a little more openness to the possibility there might be some good books I’m missing just because they are in this genre. I’m giving it a five because really shouldn’t a book do just that expand the possibilities of your mind?