"Top Gun" Started It All

"You shouldn't let the voices of your past or present define who you are. Let God do that. And He says you're precious. So think of yourself that way, Mercy." The amount of forgivness in this book is amazing! "A Chance at Forever" is about a young woman ironically named, Mercy and a young man named Aaron. During Mercy's childhood Aaron used to be her biggest tormentor, but he is now claiming to be a changed man and wants to establish himself back into the local community, after moving away, to make up for all the wrongs he had done in the past. Mercy can not seem to look past the man Aaron used to be and she still struggles with the pain he brought upon her as a child. Will Mercy be able to forgive her past tormentor? Will she even grow to love him after all he has done? Their are multiple side stories throughout the book and they all revolve around forgivness and past hurts.  "A Chance at Forever" really brings to light an issue that ev...

It took me awhile to get through "Judah's Scepter and the Sacred Stone", but I feel like that was because the amount of detail the author put into the book. I was expecting the book to be more focused on the couple, and while I would have loved that, I also really enjoyed all the history I was learning. I learned more about their religous customes back then, and some of the pagean rituals that I had never heard of. I feel as if the author thoroughly knows the topic they write on and they did a fabulous job portraying the time and history they were writing about. This is not a book that you can call the author's next move. I had a few times where I was quite surprised by the outcome of events in the story. The only complaint I have was that we never really see how the death of Teia's father and siblings affected her in the long run. It just seems she found out and kept going on with life. I also wish we would have had a bit more romance, but all in all an e...

"Keturah" is a beautiful book that deals with some of the gritty situations of the time, and shows how a woman can overcome and rise up even after she has been told she is not good enough. The year is 1772 and the book opens in England with Keturah learning of her recently deceased father's failing financial situation. Keturah and her two younger sisters must travel to Nevis, in the West Indies, where their father owned a once very successful sugar plantation, to see if they can turn their financial situation around. Keturah is a widow who was once married to a brutal tyrant, and now she has trouble accepting any help from men, since she has been hurt by them so many times. Keturah will face many trials in the book, but the biggest one of all may just be to open up her heart again, and give herself the chance to be loved the way that God intended. This was my first book I had ever read by Lisa T. Bergren, and I think I may have found a new favorite author. This is th...