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DAZieber
Posted March 30, 2012
I had the great pleasure of meeting June Foster and her husband Joe this past January. While this is not normally the type of book I would read, I have to say "GREAT JOB, JUNE"! The book is a good, smooth read from start to finish with an inspirational message behind the story. I highly recommend this book, and I'm looking forward to June's next publication this fall.
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Posted March 11, 2012
Bellewood Book One: Give Us This Day by June Foster released February 1, 2012, from Desert Breeze Publishing Inc. A hero with a food addiction, Jess Colton, and Holly Harrison are stuck in an elevator. His pale blue eyes captivate her and she sees more than his outward appearance, even as she hides her own disability. A simple, elegant style is elegant has impressed me. Jess battles with his weight and feels he can’t offer himself to Holly though he loves her. He doesn’t want to tie her down to a man with health issues. Holly feels Jeff couldn’t possibly love her because of her own handicap. She hides it when he wants to walk on the beach with her and asks her to take off her shoes so they can feel the sand between their toes. She knows she’ll eventually have to show and tell, but will the time ever be right? This novel is a heart-touching story of love, forgiveness, and what God can do when you let Him. I highly recommend it for anyone who may be battling food addiction. Jess gave up on addiction for another until he let God help him. This novel is spun gold. We are all flawed humans in one way or another, all works-in-progress. I so enjoyed the method in which June Foster brings the pieces of flawed human nature together to create a touching story of love you’ll remember after closing your eBook.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.It all began in an elevator. A stuck elevator. Holly Harrison, noticed that the chubby man in the elevator with her had the kindest face she has ever seen, and once they were stuck, she realized he was truly a kind man. Jess Colton, was a handsome man, and a kind man, taking the stuck elevator situation under control, he kept Holly calm by praying with her and by getting them help. Score one for Jess!
A promise made during the situation brings Jess and Holly back together, as she attends church with him, just like she promised God she would during her panic stricken moments stuck in the elevator. Attending church however opens Holly up to the relationship she once had with God and makes her realize that she is missing that relationship. A face-your-issues and deal-with-your-problems style novel, this story finds Jess and Holly both facing the issues in life that keep them bound in their own type of prisons. Prisons that are self-imposed, and that are also imaginary, ones they don't seem to be able to break out of. This is a heart-warming story of overcoming our issues, and moving forward. Solving our problems and finding love. A story that will not disappoint. 320 pages 4 stars! Available in e-book format from your favorite seller of e-books.
This book was provided for review purposes only, no payment was received for this review.
June Foster's delightful debut book, Give Us This Day, released last week. It is available at this time only in e-book format--which doesn't seem to stop many people these days. It's a much less expensive way to build a library, isn't it? Um, if you don't count the e-book reader, anyway. But even then--after a few years, it's definitely less expensive!
Jess Colton, the hero in this book, is a flawed human being. Jess meets the heroine, Holly Harrison, in a stuck elevator in the upscale Seattle apartment building they both call home. Jess works to calm the panicky woman as he summons help from te apartment manager.
Holly is impressed with this gentle man. She looks through his size to the warm heart and begins to feel an attraction. She trusts him--but not with her secret--or secrets. No one knows them but her sister and her former boyfriend. And even he doesn't know the worst part of her secret.
Jess's overeating is hard to hide--he's huge. When he's around Holly, he restrains himself, but when she's not, he cannot. The sweets call to him with a siren song that he can't resist.
Both of them have well-meaning families who try to "help" them. Jess's father and sister constantly berate him about his weight, offering not only criticism but way too many suggestions. Holly's sister constantly reminds her of past sins and that God couldn't possibly love her or forgive her. The problem is that both Jess and Holly believe what they're told.
It takes a deadly crisis to bring them both around. But I'm not going to tell you what it is--you'll have to buy the book yourself to find out what happens...
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Overview
When Jess Colton asks Jesus into his life, he gives up alcohol but replaces it with a food addiction. The three-hundred pound man is baffled when the beautiful Holly Harrison declares her affection.Holly Harrison lives with the results of an ungodly past. What Christian man would want a woman who lost her unborn baby and her lower leg due to her own carelessness? She doesn’t plan on falling in love with Jess yet she sees past his bulk to the godly man inside. When Jess drives a wedge between them, Holly loses all hope of a future with him.
Only God has the power to restore a ...