Katy - reviewed on 5/27/2010 + 80 more book reviews

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This book was almost a DNF for me. The medical terminology is really not historically accurate ("shell shock" wasn't coined until WWI, and this book takes place in the years following the Civil War) and I could not sympathize with Dottie's reluctance to take her children out of an extremely abusive situation. The ending has a frightening climax and struck me as an awfully convenient way to get Dottie out of her marriage and move her on to a new relationship. I just didn't like this book much at all. There was one portion of the story in which Dottie and Jerrod's doctor discuss the reasons why God does not always heal faithful Christians who ask Him for healing that I thought was really explained well. I did enjoy parts of the book, but the weak points were hard to power through.

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