BLOGWORDS – Tuesday 18 April 2023 – BOOK LAUNCH EVENT – BOOK REVIEW – HOLDING ON TO HOPE by JANET W. FERGUSON

BLOGWORDS – Tuesday 18 April 2023 – BOOK LAUNCH EVENT – BOOK REVIEW – HOLDING ON TO HOPE by JANET W. FERGUSON

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT – BOOK REVIEW – HOLDING ON TO HOPE by JANET W. FERGUSON

THE BOOK

THE BLURB

Always the wedding planner, never the bride.

Hope Rodriguez loves planning weddings. There’s nothing more special than helping a bride become a princess for a day, but she’s not sure that’s her calling in life anymore.
If only she had her own special someone. Her only current prospect leaves her with more questions than answers about where she falls in his list of priorities.
Yet, when a lifelong friend asks her to plan a destination wedding across the country in only two weeks, she’ll have to figure out how to pull off the impossible…alone.

After being burned as a child and deserted by his family, Caleb Donnelly has an intimate relationship with pain. Despite all he’s endured, one ache refuses to leave him—the throbbing in his heart where Hope is concerned.
So when Hope needs help with their friend’s wedding, he can’t stop himself from volunteering to travel two thousand miles to Jackson, Wyoming.
As long as he keeps his feelings in check, he might not ruin their friendship. Because a beautiful woman like Hope could never love a scarred man like him. There’s no way their longtime friendship could ever become more.

When Hope and Caleb’s plans go up in flames, it’s their hearts that might never recover.

THE AUTHOR

Janet W. Ferguson is a Christy Award finalist, Maggie Award and the FHL Readers Choice Award winning author of realistic inspirational fiction. An avid reader, she loved books so much she found a job as a librarian. Then she turned that love of story into writing faith-filled novels with characters who feel like best friends. You’ll laugh and cry as the quirky heroes and heroines chase their happily ever after.

Janet and her husband live in Mississippi where they say y’all a lot, and she forces him to visit the beach as often as possible. They have two grown children, one really smart dog, and a cat that allows them to share the space.

MY REVIEW

Ms. Ferguson knows people. She knows how to bring her characters to life. And the setting! The Grand Tetons! There is nothing like the majesty of the Rockies.

Switching up from her typical coastal settings, the author whisks her characters half-way across the country. And up 6000 feet in altitude, give or take.

With a jumble of characters, one who shall remain nameless [SPOILER] is ridiculously difficult, one who is sketchy, and one whose timing is the worst.

Hope’s name should have been Patience for all her client puts her through. But through is all, she is faithful to the task.

Caleb, too, has the proverbial patience of Job. (Maybe that should have been his name. #winkwink) Ever hopeful but not truly believing he and Hope might be anything more than friends.

With twists and unexpected turns this story pulled me in and kept me there. Book six in Ms. Ferguson’s Coastal Hearts series, it holds the ties established from the first book, and introduces new faces.

ROBIN’S FEATHERS

FOUR FEATHERS

I received a complimentary copy of this book, but was under no obligation to read the book or to post a review. I offer my review of my own free will. The opinions expressed in my review are my honest thoughts and reaction to this book.

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