Lauraine Snelling Reviews

Added August 13, 2007

Breaking Free

Author: Lauraine Snelling
Publisher: Faith Words
Available At: Bookstores everywhere
Publishing Date: August 21, 2007
Genre: Fiction: Christian/Contemporary
Format: Trade paper
Price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0-446-58208-5
ISBN-13: 9780446582087
Author Email/Website: www.laurainesnelling.com
Reviewer: Joyce Handzo
Rating: 9 Gargoyles

Breaking Free captures readers with a heartwarming story. Emotionally engaging, the plot offers realistic characters and a genuine dose of optimism and hope.

Recently paroled Maggie Roberts wants to rebuild her life. Wheelchair-bound Eddie Winters wants to enjoy his life. As the threads of their stories connect and weave together, a wonderful outpouring of love and faith fill these pages. Each of these characters experience the despair of having their freedom curtailed, yet a most unusual racehorse shows them how to have a victorious finish.

Excellent writing and a unique setting make this story memorable. The uncertainty and anger surrounding Maggie in prison gives readers a thoughtful glimpse into the minds and hearts of these women inmates. When Maggie participates in a special program designed to re-train thoroughbred racehorses, many intriguing details are presented, highlighting the underlying emotional significance.

Eddie Winters' battle with spina bifida may have left him in a wheelchair, but when he sat on top of his therapy horse, he saw hope on the horizon. In a smooth intertwining of tales, Eddie and Maggie meet around their mutual love of horses, and both are wonderfully released from their individual restraints.

The plot moves gently and gradually, revealing pertinent information and applying it with the delicate strokes of a true storyteller. Maggie's past and Eddie's future are slowly understood and appreciated. The moments spent with the horse are exciting and informative, adding a fascinating layer to an already great story. Plot twists, tensions and a thrilling conclusion will have readers cheering for these endearing characters at the finish line.

Breaking Free is a sure thing!

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Added November 1, 2005

Saturday Morning

Author: Lauraine Snelling
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Available At: Bookstores Everywhere
Publishing Date: September 20, 2005
Genre: Fiction: Christian
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $13.99
ISBN: 1578567882
Author Email/Website: www.laurainesnelling.com
Reviewer: Sherri Myers
Rating: 8 Gargoyles

Hope Benson is in charge of running the women's shelter in San Francisco known as Casa de Jesus, or "J House". Unless she gets some much-needed funds very soon, the shelter will have to close its doors.

Andy Taylor has no intentions of moving to California with her husband when he accepts a promotion there. She has her own thriving lavendar business in Medford, Oregon, but will she lose her husband if she refuses to go with him?

Attorney Julia Collins is in California searching for her teenaged runaway granddaughter, believed to be living on the streets as a prostitute. Will she even recognize Cyndy if she happens to cross her path, and before she has to return home?

Once-wealthy elderly Clarice Van Dam's much-younger husband is missing, along with everything she owns except for the fur coat on her back. Is it possible he has taken her for a fool and made away with her entire fortune, leaving her basically penniless on the streets of San Francisco?

God has plans for these four unique women as they all end up at J House in San Francisco at the same time. Can they help solve the problems each faces, and strengthen the faith each holds dear?

Lauraine Snelling brings us a novel that will strengthen the reader's faith in God and in each other. Using four diverse women each facing a life crisis, SATURDAY MORNING brings them together to support each other with friendship and prayer. A great story to curl up with on a chilly fall evening, I recommend this book especially to inspirational readers and fans of Ms. Snelling.

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