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Book Review - A Slow Burn by Mary DeMuth-
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This is Christian fiction at its best. Mary DeMuth’s characters struggle. They have problems, many that they have created for themselves, and there won’t be a happily ever after ending for some of them. The reality of life is that some of us are not raised in loving Christian homes, and even Christian homes can have their dysfunctions. Life is hard. We're all human, and we all make mistakes.
Emory Chance is living with the consequences of her mistakes. Her only daughter Daisy is dead, and Emory is left to pick up the pieces of her life. But what do you do with a life that is full of bad decisions? Where do you turn when the pastor’s hell and brimstone sermons are about you? How do you respond when you don’t feel worthy of even the smallest kindness that come your way?
In A Slow Burn DeMuth doesn’t put a happy Jesus face on the problems or make them go away. She shows us the good and the bad in each of her characters. We see their strengths and their weaknesses. We see their struggles, their victories and their failures, and through her characters, we see ourselves more clearly. In A Slow Burn, as in the first book of the Defiance Texas Trilogy Daisy Chain, DeMuth gently helps us see that there is grace to cover guilt; there is healing for the hurt, and with faith you can face the future one day at a time.
Review by Jeanne Noorman
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