Age group; 12 - Young Adult
Rating; (1-10) 10
When you buy a self-published/small press book, you never know what to expect. To be honest, I really didn’t have very high expectations for this book, but my mind was quickly changed.
Plot; When Charity Wentworth leaves university, she's going to go to India and spend a year living and working there as a missionary. Right? She thinks so, but God has other plans. He wants her to do - and be - something else. His plans for Charity are beyond her wildest dreams, but can she embrace them when they're so different from her own plans - has she got the courage to change?
My thoughts; This has to be one of the best books I have read in a long time. The spiritual lessons are deep and very real. Although I was very convicted by this book to become more like Christ and other things (which I won’t go into, because it would give part of the book away), I never felt like I was being preached at.
I identified with Charity and some of her struggles. I liked it that, though she was a likable person and godly, she was human and made mistakes.
I also loved the sketches in the book. I really felt like I was reading Charity’s Dairy. I also loved the fact that it was a British book and felt very English, different from the American books I am used to reading.
Good things about this book; Godly morals, strong faith, family that likes each other, and much more.
Things you might want to know before reading; Some of my readers might like to know that there is some romance in this book, although I thought that it was one of the struggles that made this book good. Charity’s cousin dates and talks about it some, but I didn’t have an issue with it. Even some of my readers who don’t like romance books will most likely love this book.