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Awakening Heart (Portraits Series #1)

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Melody Carlson is one of my favorite authors and this book is wonderful! I can usually tell from the first page if I'll like a book, and this one grabs your attention right away. The characters are all described in great detail. The book is romantic, funny and suspenseful all in one!

This book is about a woman, Emma, who takes care of her grandma and works with a guy who sexually harrasses her. Not badly though, this is a Christian book :) She ends up going on a cruise to Papua New Guinea, by pointing randomly on a globe. Of course she falls in love on the way, makes a new friend who helps her fall out of love, they part, she decides to work as a nanny, she falls in love with the guy she then works for(Josh)...the friend she made comes to visit, Emma gets jealous of her friend and Josh, it all comes to a climax when the natives get restless. And of course the ending works out.

I found it poorly written in the way it tells unnecessary details "she had a shower, dried off, blew dry her hair, had a drink of tea, sat down, read a book" etc. (that line didn't come out of the book, I made it up as an illustration, just in case you start looking for it :))Only really good writers can pull that off. And her relationship with Josh goes from 0 to 'will you marry me?' in a few pages, leaving you puzzled to when they actually had anything going.

But it's a cozy read if you have a bit of time and some chocolate at hand.