ABOUT THE BOOK
Title: TetheredSeries: The Mosaic Collection: Book 12Author: Eleanor BertinPublisher: Leaf & Blade PublishingRelease Date: July 8, 2020Genre: Contemporary Christian Fiction
Perfectionistic librarian Jacqui Penn is ripped up by the roots when she’s dumped by her longtime boyfriend. Rootless and on the run, she is drawn two thousand miles west across Canada to the last place she ever thought could offer stability—the old homestead where her father grew up.
Renovating the derelict house soon becomes a personal battle as it stubbornly resists her efforts. While Jacqui struggles to renew the home, she spends time with the family Pops bitterly resented. Her hunger for roots grows stronger as she fights to discover the long-buried reasons her father fled the house as a beleaguered teen. But will she ever find the belonging she craves?
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I felt such a connection with this story! The entire time I was reading I was very reflective. Jacqui, the main character, had quite a bit of inner dialogue that I would read, and then stop and ponder similar thoughts and situations pertaining to my own life. Jacqui has her own flaws, but you can't help but not root for her. Leaving a toxic relationship and completely starting your life all over is exactly where I found myself ten years ago and, just like in Jacqui's story, I can see God's grace through it all.
She holds a college diploma in Communications and worked in agriculture journalism until the birth of her first child. The family eventually grew to include one daughter and six sons (the youngest with Down syndrome) whom she home-educated for 25 years.
Eleanor lives with her husband and youngest son, Timothy, amidst the ongoing renovation of a century home in central Alberta where she reads, writes, sweeps up construction rubble and blogs about a sometimes elusive contentment at jewelofcontentment.wordpress.com.
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Renovating the derelict house soon becomes a personal battle as it stubbornly resists her efforts. While Jacqui struggles to renew the home, she spends time with the family Pops bitterly resented. Her hunger for roots grows stronger as she fights to discover the long-buried reasons her father fled the house as a beleaguered teen. But will she ever find the belonging she craves?
PURCHASE LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon | Bookbub
My Review 🖤
What was really intriguing about Tethered was the parallel of Jacqui's repairing her father's childhood home, and reminding me of several HGTV shows, while at the same time searching for the truth about her family, repairing family relationships, and mending her own broken heart.
Fighting for understanding on so many levels dominates this novel, and gives such depth. This is by far my favorite book in the Mosaic collection up to this point. What was really a treat was seeing characters and storyline from another book in the Mosaic collection seamlessly intertwined in Jacqui's story. It was a wonderfully unexpected treat.
I devoured this novel, relishing in the relatable characters, enjoying the imaginative scenery, and getting lost in a storyline that truly spoke to me. I cannot recommend this book, or this series, enough. Every book gets better and better!
My Rating: ★★★★★
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In a fit of optimism at age eleven, Eleanor Bertin began her first novel by numbering a stack of 100 pages. Two of them got filled with words. Lifelines, her first completed novel, was published in 2016, followed by Pall of Silence in 2017, a memoir about her late son Paul.
She holds a college diploma in Communications and worked in agriculture journalism until the birth of her first child. The family eventually grew to include one daughter and six sons (the youngest with Down syndrome) whom she home-educated for 25 years.
Eleanor lives with her husband and youngest son, Timothy, amidst the ongoing renovation of a century home in central Alberta where she reads, writes, sweeps up construction rubble and blogs about a sometimes elusive contentment at jewelofcontentment.wordpress.com.
CONNECT WITH ELEANOR: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest
*I have voluntarily reviewed this book for JustRead Tours and read the book through Kindle Unlimited. All views and opinions in this post are completely honest, and my own.
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