Review: Romance, Drama, Strong Emotions sprinkled with lots of aggravation.....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2014
This book causes conflicting feelings. Over all it is very well written. Jenny, aka Jennifer works in a bank and she falls in love with a new high priority customer who is quite well off financially. It was a quick fall, a hard fall, with an almost fatal attraction to each other. This relationship it is not free of complications in the least. Rodrigo is carrying some major secrets, and Jenny has secrets too. His secrets start coming to light first. Rodrigo is spending his time dealing with the HUGE consequences of his past actions and deciding if he is going to get close to God or not while some major things are occurring.Rodrigo loves Jenny so much, that while painted as a "non-Christian", he does the most Christ like things possible and shows more of Christ's love than any other character in this book! He lays down his life for his wife. He shows over and over and over that he loves her like Jesus loves us. He is willing to die for her if it takes that, willing to sacrifice so deeply that it cuts to the depths of his soul. Willing to give his all with out complaint just to win her heart and care for her. Most of his actions show love and immense care. At times he struggles with things that most men do struggle with, being less considerate, reacting from fear instead of faith, and having made major mistakes. That just happens to be real life and he didn't seem to be a Non-Christian to me at all. Frankly, Rodrigo is an amazing leading man!!!I'm glad that Rodrigo loves Jenny so much, because while I did feel her pain in certain areas, I wanted to bonk her on the head and yell grow up and get over yourself! When you are a mature Christian you KNOW God's love is real. You KNOW his voice and his leading. You don't sit in despair that your being punished for some mistake you made. Why, because Christ did that for us. He took that punishment so we don't have that guilt and pain. I worked to excuse Jenny because she didn't have a strong Christian family, she had a fake one. She didn't even try, and that was not smart.  Church, Christian friends, or a support group, or any other number of things she could have done were just tossed to the side. Bless Rodrigo's heart, he needed wife that grew stronger a whole lot faster! Jenny has some major, major issues to deal with. Growing up is only one of them.While we all know it is not advisable for a Christian to marry a non-Christian it happens all the time with out the knowledge of the other person.  Couples marry and find out the other person doesn't really believe like they thought they did. Some honestly thought that person was following God and they were not. Some had one half get so wounded that they blame God. I find these things far far less of an "un-equally yoked" as the current interpretation is presented in most Christian circles than having a spouse with a hardened heart towards God. I didn't see that hardened heart in Rodrigo, but did with Jenny. Maybe that is why she was able to hear "God's voice" say totally non-God like things, which makes me mad. This may not bother others but it bothered me enough to be aggravated for the rest of my read. That was very irritating, because the over all story and plot, and the author's reasons for writing it were good ones. The author excelled in small details and romantic scenes and emotions. The moral of the story is Grace, which came across in the end, but honestly I'm glad that certain people in this book had the grace they needed to cope with the others who were very dense until the end.I received my copy from Story Cartel in exchange for my honest review, nothing more.