No Escape in Sight edition by Laurie Penner Judy Wagner Religion Spirituality eBooks
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When Beth's rebellious teenager disappears, the single mother imagines the worst. Has her daughter run away with some man? Former private investigator Luke Sanders offers to help, introducing Beth to a gentle but firm relationship that was unfamiliar to her during her previous marriage to an abusive alcoholic. Reluctantly befriending this man of questionable character when he has a good lead to find Emily, Beth and her twelve-year-old daughter Bonnie join Luke as he travels to Southern California, where the three search for clues and work together on a case that turns into an urgent race against time.
Luke's strikingly beautiful former girlfriend shows up in the middle of things to claim back his attention and Beth endures Marlena's presence during the search. Relying on her faith in God to help her, Beth works through the complications as she tries to back away from any deeper relationship with Luke, but she quickly realizes she is heading into yet another painful relationship from which there is no escape.
No Escape in Sight edition by Laurie Penner Judy Wagner Religion Spirituality eBooks
I loved the first part of the book, and I really enjoyed the good job the author did giving the two kids in the story different personalities. By the end I found the quality flagging. I was a little put off by the hot or cold attitudes of each of the main characters as they faced the major difference of opinion that kept them apart--a belief in God and a belief that faith has power. The characters also continued, over and over, to decide they just couldn't pursue this relationship because of those differences and yet they'd go back to it the very next day. If I had faced that--with either person--I might not have wanted to even have a friendship with him/her, let alone be open to falling in love. I also had a hard time with the ending of the book. I don't want to offer spoilers, but I felt I was purposely misled about who the bad guy was. That isn't fair to the reader. There is also an old flame that gets in the way, and I didn't "buy" her. She was just too Carilla DeVille for me, but not in a believable way, and I almost felt like the story couldn't hold up on its own without her diversions, which took my original review from 4 stars to 3. There were a lot of errors in the book, punctuation, spelling, missing periods and either missing or incorrect quote marks, which made it confusing as well. A few would have been tolerable, and spread throughout the book might have reduced the impact, but there was a huge collection of them at the end of the book, which threw it from a book with a few problems to feeling like it was thrown together and dumped into the market. Also not fair to the reader. I think I invested enough of my time--and enjoyed enough of the book--that I deserved more than that.Product details
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No Escape in Sight edition by Laurie Penner Judy Wagner Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
Beth and Luke were likable characters. I thought they fell in love much too quickly though, having known each other only a week. The book does a great job on the theme of letting go and letting God and having faith. The story is a good one, but even though Beth's fifteen-year old daughter is missing, it didn't seem edge-of-the-seat because Beth kept working and passed it off as her probably being with her grandmother, never realizing that in itself could prove dangerous. All in all, it's a good book and tells a good story. I enjoyed reading it. The strongest part is how she kept praying and trusting in God, knowing that He was in control, when they were trying to rescue Emily. Bonnie, the youngest daughter was a cute character. Luke was the hero every woman would fall in love with until he was taken in by an old girlfriend's charm like a goofy schoolboy and right in the middle of rescuing Emily. Though, that part did play out to show the character of his old "friend" but lost some respect for Luke in the process. I guess one expects a hero such as him to be smarter than he was in that situation. The author got the teenager part right about wanting things, and I think the way Emily learned people and not things were important is another strong element of the book. If you enjoy Christian fiction, it's a worthwhile read. It's a light, easy read for passing the time in an enjoyable manner.
When Beth Robertson’s new landlord “accidentally” runs into her while Beth is out with her teenage daughters, she would have never guessed that the next week and a half would change her life. She had never had much luck with men—her only two serious relationships had been violent, abusive ones—so when Mrs. Sanders introduced her to her prodigal grandson Luke, Beth politely got out of there… quickly. So quickly that she left without her older daughter, Emily, with whom she had just had another fight, confident that Emily had gone to a friend’s house to cool off.
Emily, however, did not come home that night, and the friend didn’t know where she could be.
Just as she begins to panic, good-looking Luke is conveniently there to help her. Turns out, Luke owns a private investigation business and is good at finding people. Neither of them can deny the chemistry between them after just a few moments together. However, because of her history, Beth has sworn off men in general, and Luke isn’t a Christian, which makes him even more out of reach. After a couple of false-starts and misinterpretations, Beth finally explains her reluctance. Her first husband—and the girls’ father—had been great at first, but had been an abusive drunk. When he was killed in a boating accident, her next relationship was the more of the same. When Beth finally worked up the courage to break off that relationship—by moving to a place in northern California where she didn’t know anyone and no one knew her—he vowed revenge.
When Emily is spotted the next week in southern California, Beth, her younger daughter Bonnie, and Luke are off in a car headed south together.
Emily, meanwhile, is where she wants to be, with a strange man sent by her paternal grandmother, driving her down to LA. She dubs him “Mr. Nice,” and he turns out to be anything but.
The story is told from three points of view, Luke’s, Emily’s, and Beth’s and is mostly free from spelling and grammatical errors. However, many trademarked names—names of restaurants, for instance—are italicized when they should not be. Also, all of the terms of endearment (honey, dear, etc.) are capitalized. Not huge mistakes, of course, but annoying. These mistakes are consistent throughout the book.
I liked the spirituality of No Escape in Sight. Beth’s inner conflict—trying to forgive herself over issues with Emily—resonated and was true of any parent. The fuddy-duddy-ness of Beth’s over-conservative Christian landlord was dealt with properly and with respect. The Christian rule-of-thumb about “do not yoke yourself to an unbeliever” was respected, although that hadn’t helped Beth much in the past as she had met both of her abusers in church.
However, I found two things incredibly unbelievable in the story. First, Emily. I get that a teenage girl can be mad at her mother and plan, with adult help, to run away to reunite with family members far away. However, I don’t know of many 15 year olds in this day and age who think it would be a good idea to get into a car with a stranger in the first place, let alone call him “Mr. Nice.” Children today are taught from the time they can walk to not go off with strangers, especially those who say “Your mom (or, in this case, Grandma) sent me to get you.” When things started going wrong, Emily did not try and get help—even in public, with other people around, she did not scream—but went along obediently. When we find Mr. Nice’s true identity, the fact that Emily would call him that becomes even more unbelievable.
Secondly, the romance. Sure, I get the need to have some kind of interpersonal relationship between two of the main characters, but does Beth really need to be vacillating between picking china patterns and wanting Luke out of her life completely while her daughter is missing and she doesn’t know if Emily is even dead or alive? Most of the inner dialogue is focused not on Emily or where she might be, but on Luke and how cute he is and how close they are getting and how dare he talk to an ex-girlfriend. It’s almost as if the story cannot make up its mind. Is it a mystery, is it a romance, or is it a suspense? If my child was missing, I would drop everything to look for her, not wait until spring break when you had vacation time coming from work to go look for her.
The story is quick, and the twist is not overly-predictable. I was able to read the book in a few hours. I was given the book by the author in exchange for an honest review.
I loved the first part of the book, and I really enjoyed the good job the author did giving the two kids in the story different personalities. By the end I found the quality flagging. I was a little put off by the hot or cold attitudes of each of the main characters as they faced the major difference of opinion that kept them apart--a belief in God and a belief that faith has power. The characters also continued, over and over, to decide they just couldn't pursue this relationship because of those differences and yet they'd go back to it the very next day. If I had faced that--with either person--I might not have wanted to even have a friendship with him/her, let alone be open to falling in love. I also had a hard time with the ending of the book. I don't want to offer spoilers, but I felt I was purposely misled about who the bad guy was. That isn't fair to the reader. There is also an old flame that gets in the way, and I didn't "buy" her. She was just too Carilla DeVille for me, but not in a believable way, and I almost felt like the story couldn't hold up on its own without her diversions, which took my original review from 4 stars to 3. There were a lot of errors in the book, punctuation, spelling, missing periods and either missing or incorrect quote marks, which made it confusing as well. A few would have been tolerable, and spread throughout the book might have reduced the impact, but there was a huge collection of them at the end of the book, which threw it from a book with a few problems to feeling like it was thrown together and dumped into the market. Also not fair to the reader. I think I invested enough of my time--and enjoyed enough of the book--that I deserved more than that.
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