A Time to Dance

My most recent book that I signed up to review for Booksneeze.com was a book by one of my favorite authors, Karen Kingsbury, entitled A Time to Dance.

Karen Kingsbury is a New York Times best-selling author that has written some amazing Christian Fiction that I have enjoyed over the years.
Books that I have enjoyed by her include the Lost Love Series, the September 11th Series, the Forever Faithful Series, and the Timeless Love Series. Of course, my favorites by her is the the series' that include the Baxter Family... The Redemption Series, The Firstborn Series, the Sunrise Series, and now the Above the Line Series... which I am currently reading.

For this review I read A Time to Dance which is from her Lost Love Series... and I can honestly say that at first it wasn't something I thought I would want to read because it deals with a very deep subject... Divorce. Such a nasty, messy thing that God would want us to avoid. Divorce hurts so many people... and it makes me so sad that people give up and think that it's for the best. I know that their are reasons... good reasons... that cause people to get out of a marriage, like abuse. But, our culture has made marriages dispensable... if your not happy then find someone else that will make you happy... and so on.

So, here's the premise of the book...

John and Abby were the perfect couple with the perfect family. But on the verge of an affair, John is no more the man Abby married than she is the bride of his dreams. So they decide to divorce. But when they gather their children to tell them the news, their daughter announces she’s getting married.

Determined not to ruin Nicole's happiness, Abby and John agree to postpone their divorce. But as the wedding nears, they wonder: is it possible to still find joy and perhaps the time…to dance?


The story unfolds with a married couple that have allowed things to come between them... time, space, jobs... and other people. They both lose touch with one another... they stop praying together, they stop talking to each other, the stop depending on God and on each other... and they both get emotionally attached to another person of the opposite sex.
The hate and bitterness that they have for each other is... well,.. just sick! The fact is though, it is very real. This book could hit too close to home for some people. It really messed with my mind... I even had a couple bad dreams. It did make me look into my own relationship with my husband. No, we are not anywhere in anyway talking about divorce. Reading this book made me think about how we communicate... are we really talking and listening to each other? Are we putting God first... and then each other next... and then our son... and so on? I believe it is a good thing when God uses something that causes us to evaluate our life... and the choices we are making.

I will say, I did need to find the second book in the series... I had to see what would happen to this couple. I knew it would be that happy ending... but I had to finish their story. Both books are good...Karen Kingsbury is great at writing about real life situations.... and illustrating how God wants us to handle tough situations.



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