Book Review: Never Look Back by Kathy Herman

I won this book in a contest over at Laura Williams' Musings a couple of months ago. Now that it is summer and I am catching up on my reading, I got a chance to read it.

This book is the second in a series. I wish I had read the first, though the book certainly can stand on its own. For the most part I liked this book. Though I wasn't very far into the book when I had figured out who was the bad guy. And during another prominent scene, when someone suddenly 'turns cold', I figured out what was going on there too, immediately. I don't like that. I prefer to have a story a little more challenging to read in that way.

However, having said that, I over all liked the book. The characters were believable and interesting. The book was engrossing, I read most of it in a few hours. And the book portrayed some very real problems that Christians face.

Such as we say we accept God's forgiveness, but we don't forgive ourselves.

We don't feel like we are good enough to be loved by God.

We feel like God is punishing us for past mistakes.

We forget to forgive others as we have been forgiven.

We take appearances and past records at face value and judge accordingly.

For all of those reasons, I recommend this book as a good read. I will be looking for more books by Kathy Herman.