Her One and Only

Extremely strong start, but it fizzled by the end. I think this may be the last novel in the Porter family series...and that's why there was so MUCH of the family and just extra characters/scenes in this novel, because I don't remember that happening in the first novel as much. It took away from the story and I would rather have had more character development for Gray (who I always mistakenly read as ‘Gary' in my head lol) as he overcome his childhood issues.

But still a very fun novel, I just found myself skimming when the author discussed the main characters' family a bit too much.

About a third of the way into the book, I started wondering how far this was going to go. It was edgier than a lot of Christian fiction tends to be, with drinking and alcoholism and mentions of womanizing. But Becky Wade did a great job of pulling the strings together and showing how each of these things is ultimately empty or crippling, how the only real way to find fulfillment in life is through a Christian life and through friendship and love for others.

Both characters have a Past. Because of that past, they have more fleshly things to deal with than many Christian fiction characters generally do. I felt that Becky handled the issue of desire and how to deal with it quite well and with a strong a Christian message. Very well done.