Review of Just to See You Smile (The Other Way Home, Book 3) (Paperback)

Just To See You Smile
Sally John
Harvest House Publishers, 2008
ISBN: 9780736920933
Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for ReviewYourBook.com, 12/08
5 stars
Christian romance...
Britte finds herself working with a new principal.She and Joel are drawn together.Anne and her husband, Alec, have drawn apart.He is determined to hold their family together but to heal the wounds.
Just To See You Smile is the third book in The Other Way Home series.Sally John has once again created characters that I want for my best friends.Sally John skillfully weaves together the threads of two stories.Ms. John is a master at her art.The characters come to life on the pages.From the first page, this story held me captive.I did not put it down until I had read every word.Sally John is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors.



Product Description

Popular fiction author Sally John's first series The Other Way Home (more than 65,000 copies sold) comes to life with a fresh, new cover for a new audience of readers.

In Just to See You Smile, the third book in series, teacher and coach Britte Olafsson finds herself drawn to the new principal who's an ex-Marine. His discipline toward life and in teaching matches her own, and when coaching dilemmas erupt, he strongly moves to support her. Despite past hurtsand disappointments, Britte tentatively begins to open her heart to him.

Coach Anne Sutton and Alec, her husband of 17 years, lose sight of their love. Alec tries to find a way to win back the love and faith of Anne.

Just to See You Smile is a tender story about faithfulness, hope, the unconditional love of Jesus, and the true meaning andbeauty of semper fidelis (always faithful).

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Review of Home Remedies (Harvest Original) (Paperback)

Angela Pneuman has a sharp sense of humor and great delivery in her short story collection, Home Remedies. Once you read the first story about a young girl who begs her skilled, elderly babysitter to take out her tonsils, you're sucked into worlds you've never seen quite like Pneuman describes them.

A Christian girl, not allowed to date, tries to hide her phone calls with a boy. But the young girl's perceptions are off; the boy isn't interested when his old girlfriend comes back to him. She has to discover this scenario in the lunchroom at school. Tragedy and comedy are meted out side by side in these stories of conflict, parental control, Christian values and the harsh realities of life.

The greatest gifts of these stories are Pneuman's endings to every story. She leaves the readers wondering in their own mind how everything played out. She doesn't give you the sugarcoated, everything-turns-out-fine kind of ending that the reader may expect. She leaves it up to the reader to decide how the stories end. Were the girl's tonsils removed? Did the boy dump the girl because she was Christian and couldn't date?

Armchair Interviews says: Riveting stories for any reader.



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