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4.0
A Promise In Pieces Quilts of Love by Emily T. Wierenga
This book starts out with a section called War and it's the present day and the grandparents are in the car with the grandkids as they drive around the battlefields in the DC area. Then it talks of the war and hardship and what Clara Wilson and others had done themselves to support the country.
Another section is entitled Peace and again it starts out in the present time then back to the past to help you understand. The bible plays a large part in the story. Forgiveness, faith in God and friendship. This is the section she returns home after delivering a letter to a widow of a dying soldier that was in her care. She also returns to her home.
Love how the quilt comes into play in this book and what it all signifies and the bigger project. Loved hearing of the journey and their lifes along the way. Easy to keep track of the characters.
I received this book from Net Galley via Abingdon Press in exchange for my honest review.
This book starts out with a section called War and it's the present day and the grandparents are in the car with the grandkids as they drive around the battlefields in the DC area. Then it talks of the war and hardship and what Clara Wilson and others had done themselves to support the country.
Another section is entitled Peace and again it starts out in the present time then back to the past to help you understand. The bible plays a large part in the story. Forgiveness, faith in God and friendship. This is the section she returns home after delivering a letter to a widow of a dying soldier that was in her care. She also returns to her home.
Love how the quilt comes into play in this book and what it all signifies and the bigger project. Loved hearing of the journey and their lifes along the way. Easy to keep track of the characters.
I received this book from Net Galley via Abingdon Press in exchange for my honest review.
jbarr5's review
5.0
A Promise In Pieces Quilts of Love by Emily T. Wierenga
This book starts out with a section called War and it's the present day and the grandparents are in the car with the grandkids as they drive around the battlefields in the DC area. Then it talks of the war and hardship and what Clara Wilson and others had done themselves to support the country.
Another section is entitled Peace and again it starts out in the present time then back to the past to help you understand. The bible plays a large part in the story. Forgiveness, faith in God and friendship. This is the section she returns home after delivering a letter to a widow of a dying soldier that was in her care. She also returns to her home.
Love how the quilt comes into play in this book and what it all signifies and the bigger project. Loved hearing of the journey and their lifes along the way. Easy to keep track of the characters.
I received this book from Net Galley via Abingdon Press in exchange for my honest review.
This book starts out with a section called War and it's the present day and the grandparents are in the car with the grandkids as they drive around the battlefields in the DC area. Then it talks of the war and hardship and what Clara Wilson and others had done themselves to support the country.
Another section is entitled Peace and again it starts out in the present time then back to the past to help you understand. The bible plays a large part in the story. Forgiveness, faith in God and friendship. This is the section she returns home after delivering a letter to a widow of a dying soldier that was in her care. She also returns to her home.
Love how the quilt comes into play in this book and what it all signifies and the bigger project. Loved hearing of the journey and their lifes along the way. Easy to keep track of the characters.
I received this book from Net Galley via Abingdon Press in exchange for my honest review.
kbranfield's review
4.0
Emily T. Wierenga's A Promise in Pieces is a lovely story of faith, friendship, healing and love. This heartfelt novel spans several decades as Clara reminisces about how her years as a nurse in World War II helped her recover her lost faith and guided her to a treasured friendship that withstands all of life's triumphs and losses.
A minister's daughter, Clara leaves her sheltered childhood behind when she joins the Army against her parents' wishes. Her experiences as a nurse in Normandy lead her to abandon her already shaky faith but nursing a soldier through his death renews her belief in God. In fulfilling his dying wish, Clara strikes up an unlikely friendship with his widow Mattie. Returning to her small hometown, Clara begins a new career as a midwife but will her worries keep her from accepting the blessings that are within her grasp?
Clara is shocked by the changes in her parents when she returns home. She and her father form a close bond as they struggle to help her mother emerge from deep depression. Clara is surprised by her interest in a young man at her father's church, but her fears cause her to reject him. An unexpected loss gives her the family she never thought she wanted and Clara surprises herself when she finds the courage to risk her heart.
A Promise in Pieces is an engaging and poignant novel with richly drawn characters, vibrant settings and a compelling storyline. Emily T. Wierenga has written a realistic story of love and faith that is sure to resonate with anyone who enjoys Christian fiction.
Although A Promise in Pieces is part of the Quilts of Love series, it can be read as a standalone story.
A minister's daughter, Clara leaves her sheltered childhood behind when she joins the Army against her parents' wishes. Her experiences as a nurse in Normandy lead her to abandon her already shaky faith but nursing a soldier through his death renews her belief in God. In fulfilling his dying wish, Clara strikes up an unlikely friendship with his widow Mattie. Returning to her small hometown, Clara begins a new career as a midwife but will her worries keep her from accepting the blessings that are within her grasp?
Clara is shocked by the changes in her parents when she returns home. She and her father form a close bond as they struggle to help her mother emerge from deep depression. Clara is surprised by her interest in a young man at her father's church, but her fears cause her to reject him. An unexpected loss gives her the family she never thought she wanted and Clara surprises herself when she finds the courage to risk her heart.
A Promise in Pieces is an engaging and poignant novel with richly drawn characters, vibrant settings and a compelling storyline. Emily T. Wierenga has written a realistic story of love and faith that is sure to resonate with anyone who enjoys Christian fiction.
Although A Promise in Pieces is part of the Quilts of Love series, it can be read as a standalone story.
gretchenlouise's review
4.0
I love the first person voice of A Promise in Pieces. I could do more than just empathize with Clara, the main character--I was living her story through her words. I felt her chagrin over being restricted to ridiculous rules as the daughter of a conservative, nonresistant pastor. I smelled the aromas that filled her with discuss in the nurse's boot camp. I cried with her at the bedside of a dying soldier. I agonized with her at the birth of the first child she delivered on her own as a midwife.
The only thing I didn't like about A Promise in Pieces was that it was so short. It left me hungry for more. I couldn't help but wishing Emily had developed the characters more--I felt like I was just barely meeting them when they were already leaving the story or aging many years and changing in character. Because not only can Emily tell a good story, but she can make her characters come to life on the pages. I just wished I'd had a chance to spend more time with them.
The only thing I didn't like about A Promise in Pieces was that it was so short. It left me hungry for more. I couldn't help but wishing Emily had developed the characters more--I felt like I was just barely meeting them when they were already leaving the story or aging many years and changing in character. Because not only can Emily tell a good story, but she can make her characters come to life on the pages. I just wished I'd had a chance to spend more time with them.
booksforchristiangirls's review
2.0
About this book:
“A baby quilt touches many hearts as it travels from family-to-family and through generations.
After the end of World War II, Clara Kirkpatrick returns from the Women’s Army Corp to deliver a dying soldier’s last wishes: convey his love to his young widow, Mattie, with apologies for the missed life they had planned to share.
Struggling with her own post-war trauma, Clara thinks she’s not prepared to handle the grief of this broken family. Yet upon meeting Mattie, and receiving a baby quilt that will never cuddle the soldier’s baby, Clara vows to honor the sacrifices that family made.
Now a labor and delivery nurse in her rural hometown, Clara wraps each new babe in the gifted quilt and later stitches the child’s name into the cloth. As each new child is welcomed by the quilt, Clara begins to wonder whatever happened to Mattie—and if her own life would ever experience the love of a newborn. Little does she know that she will have the opportunity to re-gift the special quilt—years later and carrying even greater significance than when it was first bestowed.”
Series: Quilts of Love” book #17 (does not have to be read in order)
Spiritual Content- Young Clara feels like she tired of the Bible but she does know scriptures (she’s a Pastor’s daughter); Older Clara has a strong Faith; Scriptures are quotes.
Negative Content- Minor cussing: 3 ‘darn’s; Champagne, & Gin drinking
Sexual Content- While telling her & Oliver’s story, on their wedding night, Clara says “we loved each other that night” and “that it’s not like the movies says it is”; no-detail kisses.
-Clara Flanagan
P.O.V. switches between Young Clara & Grandma Clara
Set in 200 (but switches back between 1943-1957 as well)
193 pages
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Pre & New Teens-
Two stars
High School Teens-
Three Stars
My Personal Rating-
Two Stars (and a half)
I have mixed feelings about this book… I had an incredibly hard time getting into this story because it goes back-n-forth with First person & Third person. This was my first “Quilts of Love” book I’ve read (while reading I was snuggled under my quilt. :) )
*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
*I received this book for free from the Publisher for this review.
“A baby quilt touches many hearts as it travels from family-to-family and through generations.
After the end of World War II, Clara Kirkpatrick returns from the Women’s Army Corp to deliver a dying soldier’s last wishes: convey his love to his young widow, Mattie, with apologies for the missed life they had planned to share.
Struggling with her own post-war trauma, Clara thinks she’s not prepared to handle the grief of this broken family. Yet upon meeting Mattie, and receiving a baby quilt that will never cuddle the soldier’s baby, Clara vows to honor the sacrifices that family made.
Now a labor and delivery nurse in her rural hometown, Clara wraps each new babe in the gifted quilt and later stitches the child’s name into the cloth. As each new child is welcomed by the quilt, Clara begins to wonder whatever happened to Mattie—and if her own life would ever experience the love of a newborn. Little does she know that she will have the opportunity to re-gift the special quilt—years later and carrying even greater significance than when it was first bestowed.”
Series: Quilts of Love” book #17 (does not have to be read in order)
Spiritual Content- Young Clara feels like she tired of the Bible but she does know scriptures (she’s a Pastor’s daughter); Older Clara has a strong Faith; Scriptures are quotes.
Negative Content- Minor cussing: 3 ‘darn’s; Champagne, & Gin drinking
Sexual Content- While telling her & Oliver’s story, on their wedding night, Clara says “we loved each other that night” and “that it’s not like the movies says it is”; no-detail kisses.
-Clara Flanagan
P.O.V. switches between Young Clara & Grandma Clara
Set in 200 (but switches back between 1943-1957 as well)
193 pages
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Pre & New Teens-
Two stars
High School Teens-
Three Stars
My Personal Rating-
Two Stars (and a half)
I have mixed feelings about this book… I had an incredibly hard time getting into this story because it goes back-n-forth with First person & Third person. This was my first “Quilts of Love” book I’ve read (while reading I was snuggled under my quilt. :) )
*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
*I received this book for free from the Publisher for this review.