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6/3/13

Prized Your Journey as His Daughter


Details: Prized! Your Journey as His Daughter by Noelle Toscano.  Life in today's world can be hard, worrisome, frustrating, saddening, happy, joyful, confusing, and dark.  Noelle offers great advice for young girls and teenagers on how to find the light of God in a world full of evil, sadness, darkness, and anger.  She sheds light on those awkward years called the growing up stage of life where you are tossed about on the waves of everyone around you trying to influence, lead, guide, and control you.

My Review:  I have read many books like this and have never found one that actually speaks to me and what I personally went through as a teenager.  But Noelle Toscano does an excellent job!  I'm glad, as a grown woman to find a book that speaks truth, shares embarrassments, confusion, anger, sadness, love, and learning in such a way that I firmly believe does and will speak to every young girl and every young woman.  Her writing style isn't spectacular, she isn't well known, but God has given her a talent and the ability to speak to us females in a way that we understand, want to learn more from, and are grateful she wrote about her life so we can be better.  She is a great Christian writer in my view.  I personally recommend all parents get this book for themselves, to better understand what their daughters are going through.  But to also get this book for their daughters so they have someone to relate to, and be able to cope better with the challenges and struggles of tween and teenage life.  This is also great for anyone who teaches, leads, or guides teenage girls.  With all the scriptural references from the Bible, it really is great for any religious group too.

Pros: great book all around, speaks to everyone

Cons: none

                                                                                              My Rating I got this book for free to read, and review from BookCrash!

7/27/12

Though the Bud be Bruised

Though the Bud Be BruisedThough the Bud Be Bruised by Jo Wanmer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Details: Issy needed to tell her mom something very important but with house guests how would her busy mother make the time? She can't, she wouldn't, and won't. When Zara reads her daughter's letter she is segregated. Why didn't she see this? Why didn't she know before? Why has she failed at the one thing she has wanted her whole life? Why did this happen to her daughter, to her family? When will it stop? Does God even care about what is happening? Why didn't. He protect her Issue? As bad becomes worse and worse becomes horrible and continues to spiral out of control this little family is tested up to the breaking point by God. Then they are pushed; broken and left to see if they will rely on this Being who claims He loves all mankind.
Betrayed by her parent's best friends can Issy over come her confusion, hurt, and learn to love her mother and father once again? Will she rely on the Lord to help her over come her nightmares? Can God really help her stop ODing?

My Review: I feel for Issy. What a sweet girl and then she's forced into a never ending nightmare. A nightmare that affects her whole life and even affects her family, friends, and her future. I have never gone through this trial but any one who has gone through a trial that has given them experiences with betrayals, chruch members not helping or being concerned, family being hurt, physical pain, emotional pain, and spiritual pain can feel for this family. This is a graphic book of pain. We do not get the full extent of Issy's torture, but the after math is very graphic, potently charged with emotions, heart wrenching, soul searching, life changing lessons, hope and a failure of hope and faith. With everything in between exposed and questioned.

Pros: amazing details, great characters, wonderful well planned and thoughtout plot, I love all the God questioning and friend betrayals because it makes their story more believable. I love that this is based on a true story.

Cons: there was a section of story where it was just dialogue but I couldn't figure out who was saying what.

MY RATING: thumbs up and thumbs down. It was one of the most intence books I'ge ever read. But it may be too intence for some people. I love it. Just giving the warning for the intensity, immense pain and close to the heart trials.

I have received a complimentary copy of this wonderful book from Bookcrash!
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