My Father’s House {Litfuse}

 

 

About the book My Father’s House:

My Father‘s House (March 2016)

Growing up, life is idyllic for Lily Rose Cates due to one constant — her father‘s love.

But in her sixteenth summer, all that changes without warning. There begins Lily’s struggle to find herself and the life she’s lost. . . . Marriage promises fulfillment, but her happily-ever-after barely survives the honeymoon. Her husband’s sophisticated façade hides a brooding man with even darker secrets.

When all illusions shatter, Lily must make hard choices — abandon her husband or risk losing much more than her marriage. She flees their home in Detroit and sets out on a fearful journey to a house in Georgia that her husband knows nothing about. This is one woman’s compelling tale of love and survival as she finds her way back home to who she’s meant to be . . . in her father‘s house.

Rose Chandler Johnson is the author of the award winning devotional God, Me, and Sweet Iced Tea: Experiencing God in the Midst of Everyday Moments. My Father‘s Houseis her first novel. She happily makes her home near Augusta, Georgia.

 

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My thoughts:

 

I have to admit this book took some time to get into.  I started to read it, put it down, picked it back up, put it down, etc.  I finally plunged in, sat, and read the book.  Of course, having 10 children it did have to be put down at times.It  took me a few days to complete the entire book.  But, once I got through the first few chapters I really started to be interested and want to know what was left to come.

 

I began to want to find out how Lily was doing, what she was thinking, why in the world did she do that?!  And of course I was not happy when she married a man she really didn’t know.  I kept saying surely she’ll listen.  But of course she doesn’t.  That would have ruined the story.

 

Her journey to find who she was and who she wants to be is one that is going to capture you.  Stick with this book and you’re going to see some of yourself.  We’ve all had feelings of insecurity.  We’ve all felt lost and alone at times.  Whether you’ve had the major issues she did or not, you will be able to see some of yourself and commiserate.  Great read!