A Promise Kept Book Review

Book Description

God was going to save her marriage, Allison was sure of it.
But neither her husband nor her marriage had been saved.

What had become of His promise?

Tony Kavanagh had been Allison’s dream-come-true. They were in love within days, engaged within weeks, married and pregnant within a year. Her cup bubbled over with joy . . . but years later, that joy had been extinguished by unexpected trials.

The day Allison issued her husband an ultimatum, she thought it might save him. She never expected he would actually leave. She was certain God had promised to heal; it was clear that she’d misunderstood.

Now living in the quiet mountain cabin she inherited from her single, self-reliant Great Aunt Emma, Allison must come to terms with her grief and figure out how to adapt to small town life. But when she finds a wedding dress and a collection of journals in Emma’s attic, a portrait of her aunt emerges that takes Allison completely by surprise: a portrait of a heartbroken woman surprisingly like herself.

As Allison reads the incredible story of Emma’s life in the 1920s and 1930s, she is forced to ask a difficult question: Does she really surrender every piece of her life to the Lord? For a woman accustomed to being someone else’s savior, that will be even harder than it sounds.

Drawing from her own heart-wrenching story of redemption, A Promise Kept is Robin Lee Hatcher’s emotionally charged thanksgiving to a God who answers prayers—in His own time and His own ways.

My Thoughts

An emotional read from beginning to end! To be honest, I never quite knew which direction the author was going to take me on because it seemed unlikely that two previously married individuals would resume a relationship with each other. I’m not saying that it doesn’t happen – clearly it does based on the author’s notes at the end. It was just a *different* type of story than what I’m accustomed to reading in Christian fiction.

Fans of split-time fiction will enjoy this read as Allison’s story parallels that of her great aunt Emma, and they shared several of the same struggles decades apart. Through it all, there was the theme of God’s redeeming grace, and that if we truly listen, we can know His perfect will.

3.5 stars

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