Book Review: Swept Away

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Swept Away Abingdon Press (November 18, 2014) by Laura V. Hilton
and
Cindy Loven

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Award winning author Laura V. Hilton has penned many novels, including the Amish of Seymour series, the Amish of Webster County series, and the forthcoming Amish of Jamesport series. A member of ACFW, Laura is also a professional book reviewer for the Christian market, with over a thousand book reviews published at various online review sites. A pastor’s wife, stay-at-home mom, and home school teacher, Laura and her family make their home in Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas.

A lifelong reader, Cindy Loven is an active church wife of a minister and mother to one son who is a home school graduate. Cindy and her family reside in Conway, Arkansas.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Sara Jane Morgan is trying to balance teaching with caring for her ailing, stubborn grandmother. When school lets out for the summer, the plans are for Grandma to teach Sara Jane to quilt as they finish up the Appalachian Ballad quilt Grandma started as a teenager. But things don’t always go as planned. Andrew Stevenson is hiding from his past—and his future. He works as a handyman to pay the bills, but also as an artisan, designing homemade brooms. When Sara Jane’s grandmother hires him to renovate her home, sparks fly between him and his new employer’s granddaughter. Still, it doesn’t take Sara Jane long to see Drew isn’t what he seems. Questions arise, and she starts online researching him. What she discovers could change her life—and her heart—forever.

If you would like to read the first chapter of Swept Away, go HERE.

MY THOUGHTS
It seems as though every family has someone in it that just loves to stick his/her nose into everyone's business!  ...and this time it's grandma.  Grandma has good intentions, but as hurt as Sara Jane is, you wonder how those intentions can go anywhere but bad.

The characters in this book are very well thought out, their emotions will become yours, and you will become quite attached to Sara Jane, Drew, and yes, even grandma.

As you read through the pages you'll be amazed at how characters with so much hurt can make you laugh..but they may also make you cry.  You can almost feel the hurt as you read, this is an amazing book and it will take you straight to the heart of Appalachia as the characters and the quilt are pieced together.




*I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for review from CFBA