I just love the cover of this book! The colors are so pretty! I got to beta read one story in the collection, and I saved the life of another character in this collection so I feel that I have an invested interest in it.

My Review:

It’s difficult to review a collection as a collection when it’s a lot of different stories, so . . . yes, I’m going to review each story. They won’t be long reviews, but they will be something.

• Melting-Pot Thanksgiving by Andrea Renee Cox
  This one touched my heart. I love the foster care aspect of it and that fact that Sarah was willing to open her heart to love and heartache and to do what she was called to do not what someone else wanted her to do.
• And As She Talked by Bethany Willcock
  A fun story. I had my suspicions and they turned out to be true although I hadn’t figured out everything yet.
• Reasons to Be Thankful by Hannah E. Gridley
  I did beta read this but reading it a 2nd time made it even better. I felt for this couple and all they’d been through and were facing, but there was hope and thankfulness.
• Act in the Living Present by Katja H. Labonté
  I liked the characters and the setting. I did feel as though the story needed to be longer since I was just getting to know Myriam and Rupert when things changed and I wanted to find out what happened next.
• My Heart Still Sings by Faith D. Cox
  I’m not sure what I think about this story. I liked the message, but there were aspects of the story that bothered me. One was the mom’s pestering that her daughter, who didn’t like writing, enter a writing contest. All the girl knew was swimming and yet it seemed like the mom thought she should suddenly be interested in something else.
• Tollemache House by Kellyn Roth
  The setting and time period are not my favorite, but the story was still good.
• Finding Beauty in the Suffering by Katie Zeliger
  I didn’t finish this one. It was very odd and confusing, I wasn’t interested in the main character, and it just felt weird to me.
• The Lost History of Lavender Lockbourne by Shira J. Rodriguez
  Not bad but not a favorite. I had a hard time picturing the main character as an author.
• Pages of Grace by Heather Flynn
  Emilee pulled me in from the very beginning and I had to know what happened to her. The story was sweet and made me happy.
• The Sound of Healing by Avrie Swan
  This was interesting as it had some little known history in it, but I would have liked it better if I had learned some of the history in the actual story instead of wondering when and where the backstory took place.
• Between Moor and Mountain by Kelsey Bryant
  Enjoyed this one but was a little a little confused at the sudden ending. Maybe it was just me expecting more, but it was good.

Have you read this collection before? Don’t you like the cover? Is there a season or event or holiday that you would enjoy seeing more stories written for?