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Every Now And Then (2008)

by Karen Kingsbury(Favorite Author)

4.32 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0310266157 (ISBN13: 9780310266150)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Zondervan

series

9/11

review 1: I haven't read the other books in this series, but I think it's admirable that Kingsbury is covering the difficult subject matter of 9-11. I had mixed feelings about the story line. So much attention was given to the relationship between Alex and his dog and the words, "bad guys" was used so often it got annoying. I liked Jamie's character and the way Kingsbury highlighted her closeness to the Lord through her prayers and the presence of the Holy Spirit. I disliked the way every aspect of the story seemed too idealistic-especially the Christians and their behavior, however. Hard to describe-- just seemed unrealistic.
review 2: This is the stupidest creation yet.They're sitting around and one says "We never would have found the happiness of these relationships i... moref it hadn't been for 9/11." The three couples learned lessons from it and then "chose life" and remarried or mended a broken marriage.But saying it that way is like they're trying to imply they never would have found OTHER happiness? They think it needed a situation where people lived for an hour, hoping they would get out of Tower 1, only to die being crushed by thousands of tons of brick and steel and glass falling down on them?Or were set on fire and died being burned alive after living for 20 minutes?Or received burns that never went away b/c they were too deep to be totally corrected by 5 reconstructive surgeries?Gimme a break. Trying to find goodness out of evil in that way you, might as well find goodness in the devil himself. That's just more extremist attitudes to say that pain is the ONLY way to find happiness. Most people will find my attitude dismal if I'm lucky, but I don't believe you find hope by turning the bad THING good. I think you can find good from the situation but not by saying this horrible thing absolutely "had" to occur or you never would have found ANY happiness.I think they would have found other happinesses. I think there's NO reason for what happened, and I'll probably be forever unpopular for saying so. It's how I feel right now. less

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