Reviewer: Connie Payne
Title: These Boots Weren't Made for Walking
Author: Melody Carlson
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
ISBN: 1400073138
Release Date: June 2007
Genre/Sub-genre: Contemporary Inspirational Romance
Year/Setting: Present day - WA
Overall Rating: 4.5
Sexual Content Rating: None
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: None
Violent Content Rating: None
Melody's Website: None Found
She loves fashion, brand name designs, and it’s one purchase, a pair of Valentino boots, and the opening of a credit account that seems to start Cassidy Cantrell on the downhill slide from "bright future ahead" to, "bridge washed out, take detour".
The boots are gorgeous, buttery soft, make a fashion statement, and took a chunk out of her finances. But she’ll pay it over time since she opened her new account when she bought the boots. No problem. She’s got a great job in marketing. Until the day she wore the boots for the first time that is.
Poor Cassie. Her whole team is let go. Nothing to do but go home and wallow and eat junk food. Perhaps whining on her boyfriend’s shoulder will make her feel better. Well, it might have if he hadn’t come over to break up with her because he’s involved with someone else. More wallowing. More tragedy. Grandma has told her things happen in three’s.
The only thing left to do is go home to her mother’s, regroup and figure out what to do next. But her fifty something mother looks and acts like a twenty something. She has more dates than Cassie does. She has a life and Cassie’s is in the toilet!
Well, trying to make it on her own, without the help of God hasn’t worked, so she puts her life into His hands. Things start to look up. She has a job and she’s dating. But she doesn’t really feel fulfilled. Could she dare hope there’s something more, someone just for her on the horizon, or has it been in front of her all along?
Cassie’s flawed, just like everyone else. Every reader will be able to relate to her and her situations on several levels; losing a job, a boyfriend, being angry at God…Melody Carlson touches on faith, letting God take over the planning of your life and how rewarding it will be, in a totally engaging, un-pushy way.
I absolutely loved Cassie’s story, with one exception. The POV. I enjoy reading books written in first person, but when it’s present tense--I say, I nod, I walk--well, it’s a bit distracting for me.
But don’t let that stop you from reading this story. Tag along on Cassie's journey from the depths of despair to happiness and fulfillment and love and see why These Boots Weren’t Made for Walking is so much fun.
Connie
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