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BOOK REVIEW: The Only Best Place
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by: Laura V. Hilton Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: The Only Best Place Author: Carolyne Aarsen Publisher: Warner Faith ISBN: 0-446-69681-1 Genre: Inspirational/Women/Fiction
Leslie Vandekeere has worked hard to achieve her dreams and the good life. She has a happy family, a great career, and all the luxuries of urban living. The house of her dreams is even in the works. But then her husband decides to give it all up and moves back to his childhood home in Montana to help his mother run the family farm.
Leslie goes to the farm, kicking and screaming, as becoming a farmer’s wife is not in her plans. Not even for a year. Now she finds herself taking care of dirty cows, and has long days filled with monotonous chores. Not to mention her overbearing mother-in-law who has never liked Leslie—or even pretended to.
Leslie forces herself to take it one day at a time, after all, it’s just for a year. But then her husband hints that the stay might be more permanent. Leslie finds herself questioning her marriage, her future, and her faith. Will Leslie find the best place to be?
The Only Best Place is the first book I’ve read by Carolyne Aarsen, and I hope it isn’t the last. Written in first person, the reader becomes Leslie, and feels her heartache and pain as she’s ripped from her comfortable life and steps into the unknown.
I enjoyed reading The Only Best Place and am looking forward to the second book in the series, due out in August 2007. The faith message is expertly woven in and the characters are realistic. Discussion questions are included at the end, as well as a sneak peak at All in One Place. $12.99. 316 pages. |
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