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Full Circle

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Just finished reading Full Circle - I had tears streaming down my cheeks at the wonderful ending. God is so good! And Davis Bunn is the kind of writer who draws you in so beautifully that you're in a "can't put it down until you finish" mode before you know it. The characters are real and drawn perfectly. I'd love to have a tutorial with Professor Beachly and sit down for tea with Honor and Kayla. Adam and Peter would be great friends with my husband. This is a must read - and Bunn left it open for a sequel - how masterful!

American Adam Wright travels to Oxford, England at the request of his dying mother and a man he's met once. Adam needs a job; the company for which he hopes to work needs a miracle.

Kayla Austin returns from Africa, humiliated, with a shattered heart and a shattered dream.

This is by no means Bunn's most original or suspenseful novel; but he does a great job with the formula, demonstrating once again his enviable ablility to write different styles. His characters are well-rounded and sympathetic, and his mystery intriguing and credible. Peter, Honor, and others bring meaningful faith to the narrative without preaching. Davis Bunn has lived all over the world, but set this story in his own town of Oxford, making it very natural and rather special.

It's a good, fairly quick read with just enough suspense to keep the pages turning. I never doubted the happy ending, but most definitely enjoyed the trip. Keep up the good work, Mr. Bunn!

Anything written by T Davis Bunn is worth the read. Most of his books are historical fiction. He researches history and places fictional characters in that time period.

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As another reviewer said, there isn't a lot of head-on Christianity in the book. I actually enjoyed that. Other authors cover this in such detail it was rather nice to get emotionally absorbed and have the story flow without sermonizing. Adam's mother and Honor embody "Preach Christ, and if you must, use words."

I felt as though I'd met the characters and been to the locales described when I finished. Bunn is amazingly descriptive and his attention to detail, particularly with the mental workings of analyst/actor Adam, swept me into a world I would not otherwise experience.

I found the book to be tepid...no truth fully stated. It was there, but God's truth was shallow and too amorphous to be grabbed a hold of. I had the feeling that Bunn really liked the trappings of wealth and money (the Mercedes, the descriptions of the City employees, etc...) and that so detracted from the girl's experiences in Dar es Salaam. And, when the male protagonist is searching for the truth...he's to look for it in himself and in his re-vamping of his "parametres", not in looking for the truth in the Bible...(the Absolute Truth) for, "...the heart of man is deceitful above all things." sigh...I was just disappointed.