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BOOK REVIEW:  The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down

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Title: The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down

Author: Neta Jackson

Publisher: Integrity Publishers

ISBN: 1-59145-151-5

Genre: Inspirational/Chicklit

It is Jodi’s twentieth anniversary and her husband, Denny, has surprised her with special treatment from her friend’s, Adele’s, beauty shop. But when Denny comes to pick Jodi up and settle the bill, things turn sour when MaDear, Adele’s mother, mistakes him for a man who lynched her brother years ago. Denny is shocked and  hurt that he’s mistaken for a racist, but he and Jodi are at a loss how to make things right, especially when the even turns Adele away from her white friends and she refuses to take calls from them and tells them to stay away from her.

Still the Yada Yada Prayer Group stays together and see each other through the upcoming events including a robbery by a drug crazed woman and a mourning mother shaking things up for the praying women. Still, when the brother of the child Jodi accidentally killed (in The Yada Yada Prayer Group book one) shows up in Jodi’s class at school, things really start getting interesting.

The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down is book two in The Yada Yada Prayer Group series and I recommend reading the first book in the series The Yada Yada Prayer Group first as I really had no idea what was going on. I had to read quite a while before I finally started to understand where the story was going as a result.

Jodi and her friends were well-developed, with an expertly woven in faith message, that even gave me things to think about. The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down is about forgiveness and everyone has something they need forgiving for or someone they need to forgive. The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down will show you how to get past the lingering guilt.

Once I got into the story, I enjoyed it. I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more if I’d had an opportunity to read the first book in the series before I started this one. Discussion questions are included at the end of the book. $13.99. 405 pages.