Review: Intriguing read that kept me glued for the duration
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2013
This was an intriguing and fast read. Leah has grown up in a home with Pentecostal parents. Her father is the minister and his wife the ever-doting zealous religious mother. The portrayal of these two seemed quite accurate, based on people I have known in real life. Sometimes it was hard to imagine that Leah had come from such a background, because she seemed to with it and so much more contemporary than her parents. I caught glimpses of it here and there as she forged ahead with her dreams and with the guilt that she felt with her relationship with Calvin.The relationships between characters in this story blend together, with some being much more complicated than others. Small twists in relationships do all gradually come to light. Some of the twists you will figure out on your own before they are revealed. Other ones may surprise you a little bit. Some of the characters will earn the distrust that you have of them from the very beginning. Others may redeem themselves as the book goes on. I know that my gut instinct for a few of the characters, both good and bad, wasn't as accurate as it usually is. I like it when a story can keep me on my toes like that.I received a free copy in exchange for my honest review.