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Anne MateerBethany House / 2011 / ePubOur Price$5.895.0 out of 5 stars for Wings of a Dream - eBook. View reviews of this product. 4 Reviews
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card4Kelowna, B.C. CanadaAge: 55-65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Wings of a DreamMarch 27, 2015card4Kelowna, B.C. CanadaAge: 55-65Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This is a well written historical romance novel. Rebekah is a young 19 year old much protected from the realities of life. She is sent to help her Aunt who is ill. With no experience she finds herself responsible for 4 children under the age of 10.
Althougth she is a Christian, she has to learn to trust God for direction in her life. Her faith is much needed as are neighbors. Small town USA during WW1 and the anxiety about family involved is described well.
The author portrays the children well, with humor and reality. They pull at the heart strings .
Read this book a while ago, and reread it again for the review. Found myself drawn into the story again, laughing and crying.
A well written novel.
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debwilsonSummerfield, FLAge: 18-24Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5December 21, 2013debwilsonSummerfield, FLAge: 18-24Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5It is 1918, and Rebekah Hendricks has her life planned out perfectly: marry the dashing, handsome, pilot Arthur, see the world and the experience the excitement it has to offer. But some things stand in the way of her dreams; the small town that she lives in is so stagnant nothing ever happens there. And her overbearing, obnoxious mother who really isn't doing a thing by constantly matchmaking her to the local grocer, is unknowingly fueling Rebekah's dreams for life outside of their tiny town in Oklahoma.
So when the opportunity arises to care for an estranged, ailing aunt in Texas, the same place where Arthur is stationed, Rebekah jumps at the chance to go help. Making great plans to aid her aunt back to health quickly, then rendezvous with Arthur at his base, she is so sure that her great life adventure is about to begin. But when she arrives, things change quickly with the Spanish flu epidemic and an unexpected situation involving four children. Will she be able to put her dreams on "hold" long enough to keep Arthur's interest and still fulfill her obligations to her aunt? Or will her dreams and plans be turned completely upside down by a family who have lost so much?
Debut novel or not, this book was wonderful. I am always a skeptic when it comes to books everyone raves about, because I'm afraid I'm not going to love it, and I'd feel bad giving a less than glowing review. But this book was so comfortable I felt like I was Rebekah, my dreams rising and falling with each turning page. You won't feel like you traveled or journeyed anywhere in this novel, because you're there, living and breathing through Rebekah's eyes, experiencing her disappointments and rejoicing at her successes. My only disappointment in this book is that it had to end...but that's inevitable, isn't it? -
An Old Fashioned GirlMinnesotaAge: 25-34Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Tugs the heartstringsJanuary 25, 2015An Old Fashioned GirlMinnesotaAge: 25-34Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5Every great once in a while, I read a book and it speaks so clearly into my life, it was like it was written for me for just this time. This is one of those books. While I am not dealing with death or suitors or taking care of someone else's kids, I can relate to Bekah's uncertainty with the future - having plans and dreams and wondering why some things happen yet others, no matter how strongly desired and prayed for, do not. I can certainly relate to Bekah's "What, Lord? What do you want me to do? Silence, as usual." If God would just tell me what to do, I'd do it; but instead it feels like I'm fumbling around without clear direction.
One thing that really spoke to me was Bekah's struggle with the why: why the bad things happen, why none of her plans work. She knows in her head that God will work it for good, yet she feels lost anyway. Though a simple statement, she reaches the profound conclusion that, "Perhaps understanding didn't matter as much as I imagined. Perhaps that was the true definition of faith." Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see; faith is not needing to know why or how things will happen.
As to the story itself, Bekah, though a trifle immature to start with, is no Scarlet O'Hara; she matures with responsibility, and even when she makes foolish decisions, she is a sympathetic character, easy to relate to, and never obnoxious. While yes, there is some romance, it isn't really the main focus of the story - Bekah's journey with God is. I especially liked, since it is told entirely in first person, that Bekah's choice of her suitors is not obvious at the beginning. Rather than a "how will these two end up together" kind of story, it is a "who will she end up with" story. It took until well over halfway before I could be sure.
Between the realities of death of loved ones and life with children, this is an emotional story that could tug at the hardest of heartstrings - sad a times, but generally uplifting. It begs us to question what are our plans versus our dreams, and to trust God when things go wrong or the way is not clear. Highly recommended! 5 out of 5 stars! -
CurledUpWithaBookThe MaritimesAge: Over 65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Wonderful story!May 24, 2014CurledUpWithaBookThe MaritimesAge: Over 65Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's a story of change, hard work and struggle, strong families, love, sickness, and death. It's a story of real life and real people. It's a story of how much we need the Lord to lean on and to lead the way through all of life.
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