Customer Reviews

Stranded in Paradise (Women of Faith Fiction)

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Despite a few mistakes within the book, I loved it! It was a nice light and relaxing book to read and a great story. I truely enjoyed reading it....a wonderful romantic comedy!

I didn't expect much from this book from the reviews, but once I sat down with it I finished it in one day! I wish I had my own copy, I had my library chase this one down outside the state! I'll never forget this book and may purchase my own copy. The adventures of Tess and Carter in Hawaii are tops on my list of reader interest! Great book!

Not to be rude, but I just don't understand how the majority of you did not like this book! I thought it was very cute and sweet. Of course I knew when I started it that it was a light read, but knowing that, I thought it was a very good, well-written novel. It is about a young woman who has a rough couple of weeks starting with her losing her job. She goes to Hawaii on a vacation, and things continue to go downhill, but through all of this she gains several friends and a good life lesson. Despite the other reviews of this book, I do recommend this novel!

This is one book that I read almost all the way through the first time I picked it up. I love the way it is writen, the plot, and the
characters. Not like the typical Lori Copeland novel. I wish there were more christian books out there like this one. It is a must read.

I picked this up from a used bookstore and read it in two days. There were some errors in the story like someone else already posted, and there times when I wanted to skip some pages because things were moving kind of slow, but over all it was a sweet easy read. I didn't realize until the end that it was a Women of Faith Fiction book. In the back there are some discussion questions or a study guide, good for a Womens Literary group or Bible Study to go over if they wanted. Overall it was a good book!

An amazing book of letting go, finding God and trusting in him!! I could not put it down...Awesome book!

Lori Copeland's editors did her a disservice!! How could they let her publish this book without reading it first? There are several problems with the book! The ages and pasts of some of the characters just do not add up!

I had to keep going back pages to see if I was confused or if it was really written that way!

It's not like it's a very long book either - you would think you would remember that the character says her husband had the home built and then later in the book she says the home was her mothers...WHAT???

Overworked HR Manager Chick accidentally meets Overworked Air Traffic Controller Dude in Hawaiian-paradise-turned-disaster-area when Hurricane Alana hits & leaves lessons in faith, trust & God swirling in its wake ...

I was immediately drawn into this easy, fast, fun, light read about a woman who has a less-than-perfect vacation in "paradise" after being unjustly & unceremoniously fired from her much-beloved management job ...

But, unfortunately for someone (& I'm not quite sure who), I didn't realize until reading Copeland's note at the end of the book that "Stranded In Paradise" was supposed to be a comedy ... !

Because I've certainly been-there/done-that when it comes to hellacious vacations in "paradise" & being "let go" from hellacious jobs from ... um ... hell, but not one of the situations in the book ever managed to strike me as humorous ...

Poignant was more like it.

But, speaking of injustice, I do feel compelled to step up to the plate & defend Copeland from the unfair criticisms leveled against her, namely: That she did little-to-no research while writing this book ...

Because, first of all, while rare, heavy tropical storms DO occur in Hawaii in January (with Tropical Storm Sarah [1971] being the most notable) -- & there is therefore no reason to suppose that it couldn't happen again ...

Also, Copeland provided a list (in the back of the book) of all the research that she did on hurricanes:

* United States Air Force Reserve
* Fema for Kids: Hurricanes
* Fema: Fact sheet: Hurricanes
* Access Noaa: In The Eye of a Hurricane, Cmdr. Ron Philippborn, NOAA CORPS (retired)
* USA Today; Weather Basics
* Ask a Hurricane Hunter
* Flight into a Hurricane
* Astronomy and Earth Science: The Greatest Storm on Earth
* ABC News: Birth of a Hurricane
* Stages of Development: The Growth of a Hurricane

So, yes, it IS true that SOMEBODY didn't do his/her homework, but Copeland wasn't one of them.

Yes, as you probably have read in other reviews, there are some errors in the writing of this book. It's a little simplistic and hurricanes don't happen in January, (and there are more...)but the story behind the mistakes is true and sweet.

The writing is easy to read. I read it in one sitting. The story is a sweet love story, and not exactly the kind of love story you would normally think of when I say that. It's a story about falling in love with yourself, as well as with God...oh, and the guy you meet in Hawaii, where you vacation to spite your boss.

Certainly Lori Copeland should have triple checked her facts, but...after looking back to make sure I had remembered right, I moved on. They didn't detract from the overall story.

It was a fun read. One I would recommend to my friends, with the warning that not everything adds up, but what in real life does, either?

This book was PAINFUL to finish.... In the beginning, I had high hopes of it being a fun, light-hearted & easy read. Instead, it was so predictable and cheesy with such a thin plot and even less substantial characters that I had to FORCE myself to read it each day, simply so I could be done with it and move on to something better. Sadly, most "Christian" novels that I have read have ended up this way.

Now, I don't want to leave you hopeless - If you want a Christian novel that will keep your attention, assume that you have the intelligence to handle a well-written plot & theology, and have you excited to turn each page, look up "Thorn in my Heart" by Liz Curtis Higgs. Please take my advice here.