He felt as if God
has been just as honest with him, and he felt a warning deep down in his
spirit. Yet it was a warning laced with grace, as if it was right to continue
moving forward but necessary to walk very carefully as danger lurked around
every bend.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Target Audience: Girls 16+
Subjects: Dating Relationships,
Salvation, Relationships with family, divorce, Premarital Sex
Summary: Jessi knows one way and only
one way of interacting with boys. And she knows that it works. But it isn’t
working so well with Joe. In fact, it seems to push him away. But Jessi is
hurting from her parents’ divorce and Joe has answers. Soon Joe finds himself
facing a challenge as he becomes genuinely attracted to this girl who is so far
from what he dreamed he would pursue someday. But neither of them are letting
their previous ideas stop their emotions from running away and soon they have
fallen so in love that they are willing to do anything for the other one –
anything.
Notes: A story of young romance,
Glendale is the first in a trilogy about a godly young man with dreams of being
a pastor and a hurt, angry young woman who faces a bigger threat to Joe’s
relationship with God than he believed possible. Joe tries the “missionary
dating” hoping that his love will lead Jessi to the Lord but he just gets
pulled down instead. This story does an excellent job of portraying someone
genuinely walking with the Lord and the real temptations and hurts they can
face. It does a good job showing the importance of being even more in love with
Jesus than with a significant other. It’s clearly a self-published work – not
because the story isn’t great but because of the layout of the book itself. It
will have a line with Joe saying something and then at the end of it have a
comment about Jessi, making you think it was what Jessi said rather than Joe.
But as far as the story and the spiritual content go, I highly recommend it.
Spiritual Content
Recommendation Scale: 5/5
Reviewer: J:-)mi
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