Review: Heartwarming Story!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2013
In Drawn to Jonah by Jennifer DeCuir, Quinn Baker left home to follow her dreams to become an artist, thanks to a scholarship she was able to go to New York to get her degree. Only once there she met the man that became her husband and her dreams of being an artist were put on hold. Now after her marriage failed she has nothing to show for her fancy life in the city but a diploma that she never used.Now after the death of her grandmother, Quinn has returned home permanently. But things will not be easy, for her sister holds a grudge against her that Quinn does not know where it comes from and while Quinn wants to stay, her sister wants to empty their grandmother's house to sell it so Quinn can leave again. In the meantime, Quinn tries to make sense and find a purpose to her life, which she finds when she finds a letter from her grandmother asking her to help widower Jonah Goodwin, the town handyman, by babysitting for him like she used to do without charging him.Jonah is ashamed of himself, he may be good with his hands and with numbers, but thanks to his father who used him as his assistant since he was a child, Jonah never learned to read. Now with his daughter wanting a story time every night, Jonah knows that he must learn before she finds out about his secret and becomes ashamed of him too. So while Quinn babysits Lily, she is also a literate person, and with her being new in town he doesn't feel as ashamed to ask her to teach him to read as he would another neighbor.As they spend time together, Jonah starts feeling things towards Quinn that he has not felt in a long time, but what could he possibly have to offer her. She has had a businessman as a husband, his life and work does not allow him to offer her even a fraction of what she's had. But what Jonah doesn't know is that Quinn is also carrying a secret of her own, and one so painful that she only felt able to share it with her grandmother.Jonah and Quinn are great characters with flaws and insecurities that only with love and patience can they be resolved. Only first they will face many trials that will put their love to the test, but once they get past that they will find the true happiness and love that they never had before.If you like a heartwarming and sweet story that will also break your heart but makes up for it all in the end, don't miss Drawn to Jonah by Jennifer DeCuir.