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BOOK REVIEW: Coldwater Revival
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by: Barbara Warren Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Coldwater Revival Author: Nancy Jo Jenkins Publisher: RiverOak ISBN: 1-58919-061-0 Genre: Inspirational/Women/Fiction
This book will touch you in ways you will remember long after you finish reading it.
Emma Grace Falin was only a child herself, when the two young brothers in her care were involved in a tragic accident. Burdened with an overwhelming guilt, she sank into depression so deep she couldn’t find a way out.
Her desperate family sent Emma Grace to live with her grandmother, where she learned a very important lesson, that most people have sorrows lurking beneath the placid front they present to the world.
At Granny Falin’s Emma Grace clung stubbornly to the new dark world in which she now lived, but gradually, in spite of herself, she began the long road back to reality. She learned to love the sea, finding solace in sand, sun, and surf, and then she met Tate, a boy a few years older, who proved to be the friend Emma Grace needed to help her find the way back. Tate also taught her that when we have lost everything, God is always there.
Nancy Jo Jenkins’ debut novel, Coldwater Revival, is a beautifully written story about guilt and grief, love and joy, and of the way God directs our paths, even though we aren’t aware of His leading. Nancy Jo has a gift for reaching down inside a character and revealing her most private thoughts and emotions. Emma Grace isn’t just someone I read about, she was real, and I’ll remember her long after I closed the back cover and placed the book on the shelf. |
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