52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not the usual Karen Kingsbury, April 16, 2005
I've never read a Karen Kingsbury book that I didn't like. The heart she puts in the development of her characters has always touched me and I don't believe I've ever read one of her books without shedding some tears. "A Thousand Tomorrows" certainly was no different. However what I did notice was different about this novel was the abscence of reference to scripture. In previous books scripture tended to be threaded througout the entire book. This just wasn't the case in this novel. Again, I certainly still enjoyed the book a great deal and read it in one sitting because as usual, Karen's characters drew me in and gripped my heart. There just seem to be a change in this book from her previous books. With that said, I learned that Karen's books don't have to meantion specific scripture to teach us all lessons about the love of God. Incredible author.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
In Time To Love, February 20, 2007
A Kid's Review
A Thousand Tomorrows is and inspirational book about how to live your life to the fullest. In this book Cody Gunner goes through life missing someone special to him. The reason why this person left causes Cody a lot of anger that he expresses through bull riding. He doesn't care that he might die doing this; all he cares about is the eight seconds that he is on the bull. This is only way to let out his anger but this is a secret that he keeps to himself. Ali Daniels is on the Pro Rodeo Circuit, too, and she has a secret she keeps from the rest of the riders. This until she meets Cody. Ali learns that she can learn to trust Cody and with the trust they give each other they fall in love. When a tragedy happens, they both have to live life together fully because the time they have may be short. Anyway this is an amazing book, and the ending is so sweet that you may end up crying.
Karen Kingsbury is an inspirational author who knows how to write a good book that you take it to heart. She is an amazing Christan author. In A Thousand Tomorrows she portrays two people's lives in which all they can do is live life to the fullest or they are cheating themselves of the time they have. This is an amazing book that all you can do is love.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Novel Worth Reading and a Note., May 7, 2005
This novel, like all of Karen Kingsbury's novels, was great. You identified with her fcharacters, you learned lessons, and you grew from reading this book.
A Note to anyone reading this novel: This is NOT a Christian Fiction novel, like you have come to expect from karen kingsbury. this is by her own admission, a secular nove, written for a secular audience, but clean enough so her Christian readers would feel comfortable. That had (in my estimation) been achieved. This is a novel I would use to give to someone who was interested reading Christian fiction, but didn't know where to start, or didn't want to go BOOM right into the "preachy-teachy" as some people think books end up like in this genre.
I unlike some people who have mentioned this, appreciate the realism in Kingsbury's stories. Life does not have a happily ever ending to it, instead she makes her endings as I like to call Happily After All. Yes, there is sadness and sorrow and death, but usually (as there is a sequel or a series to nearly all of her works), things work out in the end. Maybe not in a happy, rah rah yay! kind of way, but in a spiritual, uprising way.
Why the 4 Stars? Too short for my taste and read way too fast.
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