The Sinner’s Garden by William Sirls @Litfuse #bookreview

Meet William Sirls: Once a senior vice president in a large investment firm, he was incarcerated in 2007 for wire fraud and money laundering. Life lessons involving faith, grace, and forgiveness are evident in his writing. The Sinners’ Garden is his second novel.
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About the book: In the small Lake Erie township of Benning, someone is at work cultivating a supernatural garden . . .

Andy Kemp’s young life has been as ravaged as his scarred face. Disfigured by an abusive father, the teenager hides behind his books and an impenetrable wall of cynicism and anger.

As Andy’s mother struggles to reconnect with him, his Uncle Rip returns transformed from a stint in prison and wants to be a mentor to the reclusive boy, doing everything he can to help end Andy’s pain. When Andy begins hearing strange music through his iPod and making near-prophetic announcements, Rip is convinced that what Andy is hearing is the voice of God.

Elsewhere, police officer Heather Gerisch responds to a late-night breaking and entering in one of the poorest homes in town. She soon realizes that the masked prowler has left thousands of dollars in gift cards from a local grocery store.
As the bizarre break-ins continue and Heather pursues the elusive “Summer Santa,” Andy and Rip discover an enormous and well-kept garden of wildflowers that seems to have grown overnight at an abandoned steel mill.

Soon, they realize who the gardener is, and a spree of miracles transfigures this small town from a place of hopelessness into a place of healing and beauty.

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Meet the author: Over the course of his life, William Sirls has experienced both great highs and tremendous lows—some born of chance, some born of choice. Life lessons involving faith, grace, and forgiveness are evident in his writing.The Sinners’ Garden is his second novel. His first novel, The Reason, was published in 2012. William makes his home in southern Michigan.

Learn more about William at:http://WilliamSirls.com

My thoughts:  I have to start by saying that this book is definitely a new one for me.  I’ve never really read anything like this.  I’ve never read anything by William Sirls before and really had no clue he existed.  Well, now I know he is around and I know I’m in love with at least one of his books.  It’s complex.  It has so many different twists and turns that you really don’t know what  is happening or where you’re going next.  Definitely not a book for a realist as they wouldn’t understand God coming through an Ipod, but it definitely helps to set the tone of the book!  I enjoyed following Heather and learning more about her and her past as she solved her mystery.  The gardens sound gorgeous and are definitely something to think about.  This is a great book and will definitely make you think.  It delves into human goodness versus the bad and what we do with our lives.