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Love Worth Keeping
Tessa Garrett only wanted her husband Mike to put his family first. Yet night after night, Detective Garrett left to protect the people of San Diego. Now, after eight years of separation, their daughter's wedding has brought them back together. Mike can't understand Tessa's anger. Her many activities with their church and Katie's school make it abundantly clear she had no time for him. By accepting the promotion to detective, he thought he gave Tessa what she wanted... and it ended up costing him his marriage. Will the preparations for a Christmas Day wedding drive the wedge of unforgiveness deeper? Or will they surrender their pride and discover their love is worth keeping? Fall in love with this inspiring love story and our entire collection of Christian romance novels from Heartsong Presents!
176 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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April 2, 2021
Another very good book.
August 5, 2016
What a horrible (but completely honest) look at christianity.
Tessie is a christian, separated from her husband - but not divorced, because that'd be unBiblical. Nevermind that letting the sun go down on your anger is ALSO unBibilical, and let's not even get into 'be ye kind' and all the nasty things that this harpie of a wife indulges in that is completely against her beloved scripture. She's a bitter, angry, nasty, anti-Proverbs beeotch, and she makes the book a miserable read.
And the way the characters speak to each other is just abominable. Tessa's daughter snaps at her mother and yells at her dad. Tessa YELLS at her father. The parents snipe and pick at each other constantly. It's horrible.
She's pissed at her daughter for 'co-habitating' with her boyfriend, but is mollified when the pastor marrying them insists he move out for two weeks leading to the wedding. Nevermind they've been sleeping together for who knows how long - they're now 'christian'. Which her daughter scoffs at, as most of her 'christian' friends are fornicating as a lifestyle. "Well, that's THEIR kind of christian!" Tessie sniffs on PAGE SIX... and already we have a full-spectrum look at christianity. Oh, and in order to marry, boyfriend Jim 'gets his life on the right track' per some unshared conversion that certainly didn't include a Messiah. He apparently got his golden ticket to heaven so that the pastor would wed them. And of course everyone is THRILLED with this. (?!)
I... couldn't stand the story. Tessa loves her estranged husband Mike but hates his job as a detective with the SDPD, which he's always put before her and the family... so she kicked him out. Mike loves Tessa, but he doesn't have time for her, and honestly WHO would WANT that hag from Hell, anyhow?? And now their daughter's hodged-together, whirlwind 'godly' wedding is supposed to be the vehicle to reconciliation?
Because, yes - Tessa's spoiled brat daughter is getting married and wants a full, traditional wedding put together in two weeks time, so she can marry on Christmas like her parents (who are SUCH a good example of a working marriage, right?). Then she sprains her ankle in a convenient literary ploy to throw Tessa and Mike back together, trying to pacify their little mini-harpie of a daughter in her selfish whims on this crazy, near-impossible wedding deadline. Oh, this is one heckuva stellar book.
It's the story of being a christian. Catty, petty, obnoxious, judgmental, and while they spend all their time in equal parts of justification and admission of guilt, it's just a stOopid, irritating, obnoxious story. I hated it. I'm throwing it in the burn barrel, because there's no way I'd pass this crap on. The end didn't justify the MESS that the rest of it was.
Tessie is a christian, separated from her husband - but not divorced, because that'd be unBiblical. Nevermind that letting the sun go down on your anger is ALSO unBibilical, and let's not even get into 'be ye kind' and all the nasty things that this harpie of a wife indulges in that is completely against her beloved scripture. She's a bitter, angry, nasty, anti-Proverbs beeotch, and she makes the book a miserable read.
And the way the characters speak to each other is just abominable. Tessa's daughter snaps at her mother and yells at her dad. Tessa YELLS at her father. The parents snipe and pick at each other constantly. It's horrible.
She's pissed at her daughter for 'co-habitating' with her boyfriend, but is mollified when the pastor marrying them insists he move out for two weeks leading to the wedding. Nevermind they've been sleeping together for who knows how long - they're now 'christian'. Which her daughter scoffs at, as most of her 'christian' friends are fornicating as a lifestyle. "Well, that's THEIR kind of christian!" Tessie sniffs on PAGE SIX... and already we have a full-spectrum look at christianity. Oh, and in order to marry, boyfriend Jim 'gets his life on the right track' per some unshared conversion that certainly didn't include a Messiah. He apparently got his golden ticket to heaven so that the pastor would wed them. And of course everyone is THRILLED with this. (?!)
I... couldn't stand the story. Tessa loves her estranged husband Mike but hates his job as a detective with the SDPD, which he's always put before her and the family... so she kicked him out. Mike loves Tessa, but he doesn't have time for her, and honestly WHO would WANT that hag from Hell, anyhow?? And now their daughter's hodged-together, whirlwind 'godly' wedding is supposed to be the vehicle to reconciliation?
Because, yes - Tessa's spoiled brat daughter is getting married and wants a full, traditional wedding put together in two weeks time, so she can marry on Christmas like her parents (who are SUCH a good example of a working marriage, right?). Then she sprains her ankle in a convenient literary ploy to throw Tessa and Mike back together, trying to pacify their little mini-harpie of a daughter in her selfish whims on this crazy, near-impossible wedding deadline. Oh, this is one heckuva stellar book.
It's the story of being a christian. Catty, petty, obnoxious, judgmental, and while they spend all their time in equal parts of justification and admission of guilt, it's just a stOopid, irritating, obnoxious story. I hated it. I'm throwing it in the burn barrel, because there's no way I'd pass this crap on. The end didn't justify the MESS that the rest of it was.
September 18, 2010
"Love Worth Keeping" by Joyce Livingston is an excellent example of true love. She demonstrates to us how, if two people are meant to be together, they will be despite any obstacles that might stand in their way. I gave this novel 5 stars because it shows us romantics out here that there really is hope :)
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