I recieved this book from Bethany House in exchange for an honest review. This is a christian fiction book and came out on February 15th 2015. I also discovered once I recieved the book that this was book 2 in a series. I don't know if that affects my thoought on this book or not, things were pretty self explanatory of what had happened in the past.
In this book we have Sarah and her sister Hannah, who were very young, had lost their parents, to what was filed as a burglary gone wrong, were stabbed to death. After the death of their parents the girls were lost to one another due to Hannah being adopted. After many years had passed when Sarah turned 18 she reconnected to her sister and her niece Cicely, only to discover that her sister had been obsessing over the murder of their parents because she new something was amiss. Sarah did not want to listen because she did not want to relive that fateful night, that was until she recieved word that Hannah was murdered and in the same exact way her parents were.
I really liked the mystery plot to this story, I thought it was well written and very engaging. It was very easy to read and very easy to get wrapped up in. However I thought the end result felt flat for me, I expected something bigger, and the ending was predictable and that was disappointing for me.
I liked the characters in the book but as I have found in many christian fiction novels, the characters were somewhat unrealistic as in the friendliness and forgiving aspects. People, whether christian or not are not so easily forgiven when family members lives are at stake. There is always more rage and even the need for revenge when bad things happen so I just felt like they were not very believeable in that aspect.
I can recommend this book to anyone who likes tamer Christian fiction novels because overall it had a good plotline, it just needed to be more realistic.
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