1. Room for Hope
    Kim Vogel Sawyer
    WaterBrook / 2016 / Trade Paperback
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  1. Kathleen
    Missouri
    Age: Over 65
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    So wonderfully developed, the community and families come alive
    February 17, 2016
    Kathleen
    Missouri
    Age: Over 65
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Wednesday, February 10, 2016

    Room for Hope by Kim Vogel Sawyer, 2016

    Suppertime. Waiting for her husband to arrive from his month-long travels out of town selling their wares. Only he isn't returning, but sends his other children to her.

    During the Depression Era, a man has two families forty miles apart. In both communities, he is well respected. This story tells of those left behind upon his demise.

    My first thought was that Neva was not the true wife, which would turn this story around, with her twins being the ones left behind rather than the orphans that show up at her door. The love of a mother dispels any quandary, as Neva is true to her heart, full of love.

    Bud took his time walking home. Only three blocks from the school to the mercantile. If he ran he could make it in two minutes. Most times he ran, eager to get home and put on his starched cobbler apron and give Maor Pop on the months he was homea hand in the store. Bud had always loved the mercantile. Especially the way it smelled, like apples and leather and spice. The same way Pop always smelled.

    --Room for Hope, 91

    My very favorite protagonist is Sheriff Jesse Caudel. He is indeed a peacemaker. Caring for the schoolchildren, he goes to the playground meeting them each day, building relationship. He hopes to have a good foundation with them as they grow.

    I love Kim Vogel Sawyer's stories. I want to come back to Buffalo Creek, Kansas, and follow the characters in their new days. So wonderfully developed, the community and families come alive, gathering at Sunday services, drinking Royal Crown Cola, paying nineteen cents a pound for Thanksgiving turkey. A melding of a family that is suspect by others, as truth prevails. I am not ready to let them go.

    ***Thank you to author Kim Vogel Sawyer for inviting me to be a part of her review team for Room for Hope and for sending me a review copy. This review was written in my own words. No other compensation was received.***
  2. lcjohnson1988
    Indiana
    Age: 45-54
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    engaging story and characters!
    February 17, 2016
    lcjohnson1988
    Indiana
    Age: 45-54
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Change. The word alone can bring a host of feeling and thoughts to anyone, and in Kims latest novel this is a major theme. In the novel, readers will go back into the early 1900s where people found daily living a harsh reality. Some were able to work as well as had homes in the small town of Buffalo Creek, Kansas.

    Neva Shilling believed she married a good man in Warren and during their years of marriage she bore a set of twins. Afterwards, Neva could no longer bear children. Some children without parents went to an orphanage. Neva had personal experience with living in one. When three youngsters are deposited on her back door one evening, Nevas world is rocked!

    Readers will be drawn in by the emotional turmoil occurring as children and a wife have to come to terms with a harsh, ugly truth. Not only that now Neva must support five children instead of two with just the mercantile to support her, now she is a widow. Gossip in her small town spreads like wildfire and the preacher has his hands full ministering to the needs of individual hearts as well as confronting the community not living according to Gods Word.

    I just kept turning pages late into the night. I felt the weight of various characters concerns, the broken hearts of the children and their uncertainty of a future unless Neva opened her heart to really love them. The other theme was hope that shines brightest during some of the characters darkest nights. Nevas character is formed into being such a singing example of care and compassion to many who came through the town on trains.

    The Scriptures are shared boldly and appropriately either when the preacher is preaching, meeting one-to-one or when a character hears the whisper of Gods voice in his/her heart. Throughout the work of fiction at times it seemed very real and lifelike; there is no glossing over wrongs or quick fixes to problems. As we journey with the characters, we see how God can restore hope, trust, and love and redeem those who come to Him with an open heart. I loved how having the Lord close was more important than anything the world has to offer in the book. Please read another wonderful tale filled with so much that will lift up your heart and soul!

  3. bobbileeg
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    How would you respond if you found out your spouse was living a secret life?
    February 12, 2016
    bobbileeg
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Shes done it again! In the words of my 16-year old daughter, Kim Vogel Sawyer cannonballs into this novel. You will quickly follow, as Neva Shilling discovers her husband led a secret life with a second family. Betrayal, pain, rejection, shattered dreams.Life is about choices and the impact of the choices we make every day. This book follows the lives of people whose choices intersect in a town called Buffalo Creek, Kansas during one of the most uncertain (and possibly hope-less) times in our history, the Great Depression. When Neva finds herself bearing the consequences of her husbands choices, is there any hope for her family, her business, her future? I could not put this book down. I had to know if she found room for hope.

    Unlike so many Christian fiction novels today, I find Ms. Sawyers writing style and content extremely refreshing and truly inspiring. Technically, her writing is descriptive, well organized, and flows beautifully. As someone whose favorite fiction genre leans toward historical fiction, I most appreciate the believability of the characters and story-lines as being real and possible instead of flawless or untouchable. I also greatly appreciate the fact I can hand this book to my teenage daughter without any concerns.

    I received a copy of this book for a true review but I must say reading it has been a complete pleasure and blessing. It truly is a beautiful story.

  4. Mauri
    Kansas
    Age: 45-54
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Room for Hope
    November 30, 2016
    Mauri
    Kansas
    Age: 45-54
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    It's 1936 in rural Kansas. Neva Shilling is faced with the almost unthinkable. The husband she thought she knew, who for years has alternated months at home working in their mercantile with months on the road traveling to neighboring communities selling items from his wagon, has died on one of his trips. Neva finds out about it when a deputy sheriff pulls up to her back door in a wagon loaded with furniture and three children. Warren Shilling had been living a double life, owning another store in a town forty miles away. He also had another wife, Violet, and three young children, Charlie, Cassie, and Adeline. The deputy thinks Warren is Neva's brother and the children's aunt. Before Warren died (soon after the death of Violet) of botulism, he left instructions for the children to be delivered to Neva. Now she is a widow with her 14 year old twins, Bud and Belle, plus the other three. Having been an orphan herself, she doesn't want the young children to go to an orphanage, but has difficulty accepting them, as does Bud. Belle opens her heart to them and provides most of the care for them. There are many obstacles to be faced before the six of them can be a loving family. This book deals with the betrayal of adultery, shunning, prodigals, and forgiveness. I recommend ROOM FOR HOPE.
  5. Andrea Cox
    Texas
    Age: 25-34
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Tragedy and Redemption Offer a Dose of Hope
    May 15, 2016
    Andrea Cox
    Texas
    Age: 25-34
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    by Andrea Renee Cox

    Have you ever read a book that took a turn you didn't initially like ... but came to admire?

    Room for Hope by Kim Vogel Sawyer was like that for me. Here I was, rooting for one thing to happen, and suddenly something completely different and unexpected happened. At first I was quite shocked and wasn't sure if I'd come to like the track the story took. Yet, as I continued reading, the characters burrowed deeper into my heart and the plot twists kept surprising me. Several times I found myself staring open-mouthed at the book, then quickly gobbling up the next few chapters to learn what would take place next.

    In the latter chapters of the story, I reevaluated my feelings on the "different track." What I discovered was perhaps the biggest shocker of all. Instead of being uncertain about the thing that had bewildered me, I had come to really admire the thing. Maybe this surprise was unexpected and off the usual path, but it was handled by an expert storyteller who long ago mastered the art of spinning a complex tale that exquisitely reflects the realities of life.

    Room for Hope is yet another in the lengthy list of fantastic stories that will stick with me well past the turn of the final page. It is truly the God-given talent of its author that allows this novel to speak so profoundly to my heart. The grace and mercy with which Kim pens stories that bear such heavy, difficult topics shout with whispers of forgiveness and a depth of love we would all be wise to yearn for. Through Kim's books, God shines brightly, inviting the lost and broken to find refuge and healing in His glorious presence.

    Thank you to Kim Vogel Sawyer and her publisher for giving me a complimentary copy of Room for Hope in exchange for my honest review.
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