It’s another month our challenge: Unlocking Ecclesiastes 3. I’m so excited to join you again this year with guest reviews from our reading challenge participants. If you want to submit a review for upcoming months, feel free to email me using my contact form. If you are looking for suggestions as to what to read each month, may I recommend joining my Crystal Caudill’s Reading Friends Facebook group, or visiting Avid Readers of Christian Fiction or Inspirational Historical Fiction Index. I’ll also include a short list at the bottom of this post.
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Unlocking the Past: Ecclesiastes 3
Just as Ecclesiastes has two opposites in each verse, most months will leave you with two options to choose from.
November Verse: A time to love and a time to hate.
Challenge Theme: An enemies-to-lovers book
December Verse: A time for war and a time for peace.
Challenge Theme: A book set at the end of a war
Fiancé Finale
by Angela Ruth Strong
Review by: Crystal Caudill
So I might have stretched the boundaries of this month’s challenge, but even though it was a second chance romance, Nicole did start out with not liking Charlie for the way he broke her heart. One of my favorite things about the book was the fact Charlie was neurodivergent. It’s not a hero-type you usually see, but Angela did an amazing job with it. His character was so well done in the way that he sees things as black and white and emotions are difficult to feel or understand. His journey to understanding what love really is and demonstrating it was one of my absolute favorite arcs for a RomCom. Angela Ruth Strong writes RomCom with depth, and I think she’s ruined me for any other type of RomCom. Also, Nicole is believable, a pastor’s kid who has suffered at the hands of a father who made poor decisions but refused to acknowledge them, and had to find her way to forgiveness in order to find love for her father and for Charlie. It was a beautiful story that needed told. I highly recommend the entire series, especially this one.
Genre: RomCom
Plot Overview:
Charlie Newberg is sure about one thing: Nicole Lemaire is the woman God wants him to marry. There’s a slight problem, thoughmdashhe’s already left her once. The day before their wedding. To make a documentary.
But he’s got a plan. The marketing firm she works for is the ideal choice for promoting his new film. Collaborating will give him the perfect chance to propose again, so he conspires with her boss to make sure she runs the campaign for the same kind of documentary Charlie left hermdashbasically at the altarmdashfor.
Despite Nicole’s resistance, the two work well together. But Charlie’s going to need more than teamwork to convince the jilted bride to give him a second chance. In fact, he might need to fall in love in a way he’s never really understood.
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Recommendations for December:
- The Portrait of Loyalty by Roseanna White
- All Things New by Lynn Austin
- Escape to Paradise trilogy by MaryLu Tyndall
- Daisies Are Forever by Liz Tolsma
- Springtime of the Spirit by Maureen Lang
- Traces of Mercy by Michael Landon, Jr. & Cindy Kelley
I read The Letter Tree by Rachel Fordham. It was an interesting book.
That one is still on my TBR!
The Letter Tree by Rachel Fordham. It was my favorite book of the month. Can’t wait to read more from her.
So glad you enjoyed it! It’s still on my TBR.
Like the other two commenters, I also read The Letter Tree by Rachel Fordham. I guess it was the popular book for this month! I enjoyed reading it, my grandfather was born in Buffalo NY, and though this book takes place a little bit before he did, it was fun getting to explore that city though the pages of this book. 🙂
How fun! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Unlike the previous commenters…I did not read The Letter Tree 🙂 I read Sea Glass Cottage by Irene Hannon. It’s the 8th book in her Hope Harbor series and it was really good!
LOL. Irene Hannon is on my TBR list. I’m hoping to try her next year.
I also read Fiancé Finale! I think it definitely counts!
Agreed! It was such a great read too!
I read A Rogue’s Redemption by Clara Byrd. It was a quick read.
Oh! She’s clean Regency romance, right? I think I have her book on my TBR.
Yes, it was a clean regency romance! 🙂
I read Her Part to Play, by Jenny Erlingsson. I’m not sure that it’s exactly enemies to lovers, but the main characters definitely start out of the wrong foot. Anyway, I really enjoyed it!
I read Beyond the Horizon by Penny Zeller. Not quite sure it was “enemies” at the start, but I think it will work.
I have no clue what to read for December though.