Penny Wise #bookreview @Litfuse

 

About the book: Penny Wise introduces us to yet another family in “the neighborhood”—the Jaspers, busy with demanding jobs, busy with church, busy volunteering, parents of three active teenagers, juggling sometimes crazy schedules. All good things. Until all those “good things” feed into a series of crises that affects the whole family. Something’s gotta change!

The third in the Windy City Neighbors series, Penny Wise is a contemporary peek at an urban family wrestling with the spiritual and practical challenges of real life. The series employs the innovating storytelling technique of “parallel novels,” each with its own drama and story arc, but whose characters’ lives become intertwined with their neighbors and affect one another. Welcome to Beecham Street—a typical, isolated American neighborhood that is beginning to come out of its shell . . . for better or worse.

 

Purchase a copy: http://ow.ly/yLCKz 

 

About the authors: Dave and Neta Jackson are award-winning authors living in the Chicago area where their parallel novels from the Yada Yada House of Hope and Harry Bentley series are set. As a husband/wife writing team, Dave and Neta Jackson are enthusiastic about books, kids, walking with God, gospel music, and each other! Together they are the authors or coauthors of over 100 books.

 

Find Neta and Dave online: website

 

 

 

 

My thoughts:  Let me first start by saying I had not read anything by these authors before I started this series.  I love this series!  I am going to have to check out the rest of their books because I am totally in love with their style of writing.  I read the first two books in the series and knew that I couldn’t wait for this next one to come out.  I love following these characters!  Their lives are intertwined and build on each other.  I can’t say that I can totally relate to our main characters.  I don’t have teenagers.  I don’t have kids with tons of activities, but I know that there have been times that I’ve over scheduled myself.  This is a great example of finding the things that truly matter and making them the focus of our lives.  Penny Wise is definitely a book I’d recommend to my friends.  Consider yourself a friend!