A Good Read

It is a good thing they don't put a time limit on how long you can have a book before you have to blog about it.  If they did, I'd have been fired by now.

I received Wildflowers from Winter for free from Waterbrook/Multnomah Publishers for this review about 3 months ago and it sat on my shelf.  Finally, I took it along on vacation and got it read!

It was a good one.  No heavy thinking involved, many great little sub plots and a fairy tale romance, just my kind of book!

It is about a small town girl, Bethany, with a past no one would want.  She was determined to get as far away from it as possible and make a name for herself as a big architect in Chicago.  A series of sad events brought her back to her hometown and somewhat trapped her there. 

While the romance evolving between Bethany and Evan is a bit predictable, the author put enough twists and turns in to keep you just a little bit on edge.  I can't turn down a good romance.

The way she kept the details of Bethany's sad history, with the death of her father and relationship with her mother, a bit vague until close to the end of the book really drew me in as well.  I kept wondering what the big secret was or what had her so worked up about it.  I must admit, the author did not go into as great of detail in describing the past events as I would have liked.  She briefly explained some of it in a flashback section, but some of it remained unanswered.

Overall, the fact that I read this book in just a few days is a testament to the good book it was.  The fact that it ties in faith makes it even better.  There are way too many events occurring in this book to even think about a 'brief' explanation of all that goes on, so you'll just have to read it for yourself and find out what it is all about.