Lisa Wingate overhaul

After reading on Maren's blog that Lisa Wingate continued her Tending Roses stories...I went and checked a few out! My library doesn't have Drenched in Light, so that will be my next purchase. If anyone has read it, let me know how it is!

Good Hope Road

The tornado that levels the town of Poetry, Missouri, does more than change the topography of the small town; it changes lives. Jenilee, a 21-year-old with no real future, helps her elderly neighbor, Eudora, who is grateful for her rescue from the cellar of her demolished home, although perplexed by the identity and generosity of her savior. Jenilee has been the object of scorn because of her family's poverty and the abuse she's suffered at the hands of her father. Now Eudora and the rest of the town are in for yet more surprises as Jenilee makes herself useful at the armory, helping the injured and creating a wall of the photos and lost documents she has recovered so that the rightful owners can preserve treasured memories in the face of destruction. Jenilee's courage helps Eudora realize that she, too, can change.

**I really enjoyed this book. It gives a great perspective of those that live in smaller, gossipy-type towns and how destruction can change lives and bring everyone together.

The Language of Sycamores

This is a continuation of Kate's sister Karen. She has just lost her job and there is a possibility that her cancer has come back. She is struggling until she goes back to the farm. She realizes that the things she has given up for her job weren't worth it.

**I enjoyed reading it and seeing what choices she makes. They also meet some long lost family members that they never knew from the Good Hope Road book.

A Thousand Voices

Dell Jordan has spent the last two years after graduating from high school in Europe. Her adopted family has hopes of her going to Juilliard to study music, but Dell has reached an impasse. She needs to understand her past before she can envision her future. At 13, after living a life of poverty, she was adopted by Karen and James. She is raised with love in Kansas City, yet feels isolated, always thinking of herself as the odd one out with her Native American features. So she sets out to the Kiamichi Mountains of Oklahoma, where she was born, looking for her Choctaw roots. Arriving, by chance, during a festival, Dell finds what she was looking for—people who look like her celebrating their rich cultural heritage, making her proud of who she is and the people she comes from.

**This was a great book. She has always been the outcast and it's nice that she was able to meet her ancestors and people that she is like. I wish that the ending was more finished...yes, maybe a bit like Cinderella...oh well!