Wednesday, April 29, 2020

About the Book

Book: Bitter Honey

Author: Caryl McAdoo

Genre: Historical Christian Romance

Release Date: March 23, 2020

With God, all things are possible.
But can lost love be found again or two wounded hearts knitted together?
Young love, sweeter than honey, is separated by a natural disaster and turns bitter. After five years, a miracle reunites Samantha Adams and Silas Mercier, but it seems it’s too late. Will love prevail?

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MY REVIEW

It is easy to forget everything around you as you read a book from this author. This story sweeps across lands during 1853. The opening pages were very vivid as a storm destroys Silas’s home and parents. Can you image being all alone to start over after a devastating storm takes everything away from you? Silas is angry at first feeling God had deserted him. How would he ever go on without his parents? I enjoyed reading about the struggles Silas faced and how he grew closer to God each day.

The introduction of Claude was so inspiring. God sent Silas exactly what he needed through Claude. Claude is a man of wisdom and deep faith. The friendship that develops between Silas and Claude is God ordained. God always has a plan and Silas will begin to see where his destiny lies. I loved how unashamed Claude was about sharing his faith. He doesn’t judge anyone and takes every opportunity to share God with others.

Samantha has been in love with Silas forever it seems. Their story is sweet and filled with forgiveness and trust. When you are in love you know it deep down, but Samantha’s stubbornness may cost her the love of her life. The story is rooted in scriptures and takes readers on a journey that explores the true meaning of trusting God. I wanted to tell Samantha to stop acting like a child and admit Silas was her true love. Oh she loves him but does she love him enough to start a new life with him?

While I loved Silas and Samantha’s story it was Odette who caught my attention. This woman represented those who have been abused, tossed aside and felt unworthy. Her story is not so unique but is probably the most powerful example of God’s unconditional love. Her background is shady and all she has ever known was feeling unloved. How could she believe that God would love her and forgive after the life she has led. Let this part of the story really sink in. Have you ever felt unwanted or ashamed? Do you question that God could love you after the sin you have in your life? The author took me back to a time in my life where I never felt good enough or loved. My eyes were really opened to what the story in the Bible about “those without sin cast the first stone,” meant.

I loved how the author not only shared a story of two young people finding their way back to each other and God, but a story of forgiveness, being set free from sin and feeling God’s love forever and a day.

I received a copy of this book from Celebrate Lit. The review is my own opinion.

About the Author

Praying her story gives God glory, award-winning author Caryl McAdoo continues prolificity with her new Cross Timbers Romance Family Saga series. Readers around the world enjoy her best-selling novels and shower them with 5-Star ratings galore. With forty-eight titles—and counting—her love for writing is obvious; the lady loves singing the new songs the Lord gives her as well! (Check out YouTube). Caryl gave Ron four children and the couple shares eighteen grandsugars. The McAdoos live in the woods south of Clarksville, the seat of Red River County, in far Northeast Texas, waiting expectantly for God to open the next door.

More from Caryl

Are you ready to revisit the Adams and Corbin families (from UNIQUELY COMMON and REMI)? Five years have passed, so it’s 1853, and life has gone on.

Samantha, only fourteen back then, wrote faithfully to Silas back in New Orleans as she traveled west on the Oregon/California Trail. She expected a tall stack of letters waiting on her at the General Store in Napa, but alas there were none.

BITTER HONEY is a story of puppy love time tries to dissipate, but Samantha never forgot Silas—or forgave him either! Though she had no way of knowing what tragic events had kept him from mailing the return missives, he never quit thinking of the beautiful girl who’d written of her love for him.

However, each day that passed only made it harder for him to write. Until he decided only a face-to-face talk would suffice, he worked with the man who’d always loved his mother, Claude, to rebuild his family’s vineyard, catching gators on the side.

This story has a second love story, that of Claude and the prostitute he rescues Odette, so there’s plenty of action to keep readers flipping pages. A story of first love and late, second-chance love with a taste of the Cajun life in Louisiana, BITTER HONEY is about restoration and following God’s will.

I hope you enjoy BITTER HONEY and all the other Lockets and Lace stories!
BLESSINGS!