TAKE A CHANCE ON ME is inspirational. Susan May Warren's
writes
about the struggle of the people in Deep Haven a small
town, dealing with friendship gone away.
The characters in this book are dealing with loss, not only
of family members but also friendship. The young people
which are now older have lost their way. Some have gotten
into trouble others have lost their belief in God.
Susan May Warren gives you not only the stories of these
people, but why they lost their beliefs and in the course of
the story line you find why and how they get it back.
While reading this book, I found myself wondering about my
own beliefs. I have suffered loss of family members, and
struggle to find a job. Maybe God has a plan for me.
There is Darek, who gave up his dreams of being a
firefighter who would travel around the world putting out
big fires. Than there is Ivy Madison. She comes to the
town as the new assistant county attorney. There lives
will intertwine, in a way that no one would have guessed.
We meet several different characters who have had problems
in their lives and believe that God was not there for them.
Dareks' mom is a big believer that God will help people out
no matter what they had done in lives. Weather it was good
or bad.
When a huge fire threatens the town, Darek, must make a
decision that will change his life along with other people
in the town.
There are other characters that have gone by the wayside.
There is Jensen, who is trying hard to have people forgive
him for something that he did, but feels no one will ever
trust him again. Claire loves to tend to the different
flower gardens around the city, but her family wants her to
move out of the town and go to college. She also feels that
God has forgotten all about her.
I find myself wanting to go to the resort that Susan May
Warren depicts. They way that she writes does make you
feel like you are living in this town. It is a small town,
but the people there are hard working and have their pride.
Everyone in the town knows each other and I sometimes wished
that I lived in a small town.
While Susan May Warren writes about God in TAKE A CHANCE ON
ME, it is
not thrown in your face though the whole book. It is not
just about God, but about the friendships in this town along
with the people that hate, but realize that their hate will
only harm other people in the end.
At the end of TAKE A CHANCE ON ME I can almost guarantee
that you too will be rethinking your life and the choices
you face.
Darek Christiansen is almost a dream bachelor―oldest son in
the large Christiansen clan, heir to their historic
Evergreen Lake Resort, and doting father. But he’s also
wounded and angry since the tragic death of his wife,
Felicity. No woman in Deep Haven dares come near.
New assistant county attorney Ivy Madison simply doesn’t
know any better when she bids on Darek at the charity
auction. Nor does she know that when she crafted a plea
bargain three years ago to keep Jensen Atwood out of jail
and in Deep Haven fulfilling community service, she was
releasing the man responsible for Felicity’s death. All Ivy
knows is that the Christiansens feel like the family she’s
always longed for. And once she gets past Darek’s tough
exterior, she finds a man she could spend the rest of her
life with. Which scares her almost as much as Darek learning
of her involvement in his wife’s case.
Caught between new love and old grudges, Darek must decide
if he can set aside the past for a future with Ivy―a future
more and more at risk as an approaching wildfire threatens
to wipe out the Christiansen resort and Deep Haven itself.
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