Blog Tour: Shades of Morning

Summary:

Marnie Wittier has life just where she wants it. Quiet. Peaceful. No drama. A long way away from her past. In the privacy of her home, she fills a box with slips of paper, scribbled with her regrets, sins, and sorrows. But that’s nobody else’s business. Her bookstore/coffee shop patrons, her employees, her friends from church—they all think she’s the very model of compassion and kindness.

Then Marnie’s past creeps into her present when her estranged sister dies and makes Marnie guardian of her fifteen-year-old son—a boy Marnie never knew existed. And when Emmit arrives, she discovers he has Down syndrome—and that she’s woefully unprepared to care for him. What’s worse, she has to deal with Taylor Cole, her sister’s attorney, a man Marnie once loved—and abandoned. As Emmit (and Taylor) work their way into her heart, Marnie begins to heal. But when pieces of her dismal past surface again, she must at last face the scripts of paper in her box, all the regrets and sorrows. Can she do it? Or will she run again?

Author Bio:

Marlo Schalesky is the author of several books, including Beyond the Night and Empty Womb, Aching Heart. A graduate of Stanford University, Marlo also has a masters of theology with an emphasis in biblical studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. Married over twenty years, she lives with her husband, Bryan, and their five children in California.

My Thoughts

I enjoyed this book although the twist at the end sort of threw me a bit. I won't say more than that. I did enjoy the style and the plot really made you think. The main character threw away her life path based on what she thought was the reality of the situation. She refused to deal with it and just her whole life as full of regrets. That's not what life is about. Our mistakes and regrets are what help us to grow as people. I know that I try to take those same things and use them to make me better. Overall I did enjoy the book. It was a quick, easy, and enjoyable read but it also made me think. Always a good thing in a fiction book.

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