Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: Zora's Cry
Author: Tia McCollors
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0-8024-9861-2
Release Date: June 2006
Genre/Sub-genre: Inspirational Contemporary Romance
Year/Setting: Current
Overall Rating: 4.75
Sexual Content Rating: None
Language (Profanity) Rating: None
Violent Content Rating: None
Tia's Website: www.tiamccollors.com
Zora Bridgeforth’s life was headed down the yellow brick road (so to speak). She has parents who adore her, friends she loves, a job that is going well and a man who thinks she is wonderful and is about to marry her. But now the worst thing that could happen has, her parents have been killed just months before the wedding leaving Zora feeling terribly adrift. Her friends surround her with love and support and begin to help her heal. As she struggles to incorporate her parents in the wedding, she searches to find her mother’s veil and tiara to wear with the gown she has chosen.
Now an even worse thing happens in her mind, she finds the papers showing she was adopted. This information rocks what is left of Zora’s world leaving her feeling abandoned by her parents and somewhat by God. She makes the decision to find her birth parents and this decision takes her down a path of great self discovery of herself more than her parents.
Zora finds herself pulled into a women’s Bible Study because of her dearest friend, Monet. She doesn’t have time for this group but this group of women, each with their own problems, quickly becomes her lifeline to balance and, even more importantly, back to an intimate relationship with God.
Even with Preston (who stands stoically beside her) and a combination of old and new friends, however, Zora has to find her own understanding of not being alone in the world and that God has not deserted her.
Tia McCollors illustrated human obstacles in an exciting voice. Zora faces the world as an orphan now only to discover she may have family out there somewhere. She has to question exactly who she is and more importantly, who does she want to become. Is it her individuality or is it her family connections which make her whole? Or something else entirely?
Zora’s Cry, however, is about more than just Zora. It is about a fellowship of women (Zora, Monet, Paula and Belinda) who are each struggling with their own baggage (past and present) and come together as one unit to support each other, hold each other accountable and lift each other up to God.
While the individual characters are well created and quite real, it is truly the relationships created and defined which steal the show in Zora’s Cry.
Lori
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