Review: Good Story But Not My Favorite Felicity Book
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
Lisa Engles is a widow who lost her husband, Roger, and young son in a vehicular accident. She is a mother to her step-daughter, Julianne, and manages a resort. Her relationship with God has been on the fritz since the death of her husband and son.Bryce Watson (Bob) feels guilt for the death of Roger Engles and his son. It's been 18 months since the accident and he feels it is time to go check on the widow and her daughter and see how they are fairing. When he arrives at the resort she is managing, he is unprepared for the assault on his senses when they are introduced. It is an immediate, intense attraction and he is quite assertive, bordering on aggressive, in gaining her company for the week he is at the resort. Roger had been the person/friend who introduced Bryce to God and gave him a Bible. Bryce had never given God much thought but he was beginning to realize something important is missing from his life. Could that be God?Lisa Engles is equally attracted to this new guest and agrees to spend time with him, including her daughter, while he is at the resort on vacation. She is equally drawn to him and is in his arms kissing and considering more the first night of his visit. The lust they both feel is evident from the first meeting.IMO there were quite a few moments in the first half of the book that felt a little off...strange. Example: What mother lets her 12 year old daughter start hanging with a 31-year-old man she just met. They began playing tennis the day after meeting. He could have been a stalker for all the mom knew. Lisa fell under his spell but she acted oddly throughout. (Oddly to me, that is.) She just wasn't all that likeable, clinging to her anger like a lifeline and refusing to forgive.You need to keep in mind while reading the first 50% to 75% of the book that Bryce has not given his life to Christ yet and Lisa is angry with God because of the deaths of her son and husband. She and Julianne stopped going to church and reading their Bible immediately after the tragedy. Lisa, especially, felt that God has abandoned them. So this placed a bit of a different slant on their relationship in the first half of the book. Their convictions were not what they should have been because he didn't know God and she had drifted far away.I do recommend this book. If I could divide my rating, I would give the first half a 2-star and the second half a 4-star.