Review: Share this Secret
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2013
Brea Brown's first book in "The Secret Keeper" series is a keeper, but it's a secret to share. Beautifully conceived (used advisedly), written, and edited, this book is one that will stick with you for a while. Some of the reviews are critical because it is "Christian fiction" with sex and language. What in the heck is "Christian fiction" anyway? Brown never billed the book this way, but if her main character is a Christian, what is the big deal? Peyton's Christianity is part of who she is just as being in the art gallery business defines other parameters of her life. If a main character were Muslim or Buddhist, would we think it is "Muslim fiction" or "Buddhist fiction"? People need to allow books to exist for what they are: fictional creations that take us into situations we can learn from. The religious elements are not stock, and they do not present easy solutions for Peyton's problems--her many, many, many problems. Laugh and cry as you take this voyage with Peyton and Brice. It is a authentic. If you can't handle reality, maybe this isn't the book for you. BTW, as a Unitarian Universalist, I claim christianity (with a lower case c) as one of my religious influences (along with judaism and far eastern religious traditions). Read "The Secret Keeper" for the story, not as a recruiting manual for Lutherans.