the story continues.
a story of restoration
Natassa has settled into a “new normal” three years after the assault that changed her life. Marriage, family, and a new career have brought changes that she never thought were possible, and love like she’d never known before. But any semblance of peace shatters when a new development occurs in her case. Flooded with emotion she thought she’d long put to rest, Natassa must navigate strained relationships. Will she find the truth that can set her free?
DeAndre returns to Crawford County after dropping out of art school and finds an opportunity for romance. His past continues to haunt him, even as he and his new love seek to piece the broken shards of their lives together. Soon, a shocking discovery sends DeAndre reeling and forces him to choose between the woman he loves and his integrity. Will he end up losing everything or can he cling to hope despite it all?
This second book of the series was amazing! I felt connected to the characters, I was pulled into their lives and rode the emotional waves with them until the very end. I was sorry to finish the last page and greatly look forward to book three! Sarah Hanks is a gifted story teller and her future as a celebrated author shines bright!
This book was a punch to the gut, but to me, it was a good thing. Having a well-written Christian book that not only shows the protagonists’ flaws, but the consequences AND the journey to redemption, is so important. Life isn’t sunshine-&-roses, & we saw that in the first book. This story takes us through the consequences and the redemption, and the journey thru it all.
Sarah didn’t disappoint with this seamless transition into the lives of characters I now call family! You can’t help but love them unconditionally in all their raw imperfect humanness. This is real and authentic and it’s hard sometimes to remember this is fiction. Throughout the journey one can’t help but take a good look at themselves and the ways we can be driven by emotions, biases, and wounds. Sarah exposes all the ugly sides of our humanity while continuing to draw us into forgiveness and surrender for our own personal stories through this excellently crafted, continued storyline. I felt right back at home feeling every heartache and struggle with every turn of the page.
What a beautiful, hard, challenging, thought provoking book. Sarah creates characters that are so real, often frustratingly so, who deal with immense struggles in life as they attempt to navigate faith and hope in the face of tragedy. I won’t say this was a fun book, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and was immersed in the story and in my desires for the outcome from the very beginning. While there were countless times I wanted to shout against the injustice abs the inhumanity of the situations these people, like real people, had to suffer, hope still found ways to emerge, even in the darkest nights of the soul.
Mercy’s Song, book 2 in Sarah Hank’s series, was just as impressive as Book 1, Mercy Will Follow Me. As you continue in the story with the main characters, you are able to go deeper in Natassa and DeAndre’s spiritual struggles and emotional pain, as well as their victories as God brings them through those trials. And you continue in Mercy’s journal as to her struggles of long ago. The way Sarah marries the historical tale to the contemporary story is amazing, as you find yourself lost in the telling. Looking forward to Book 3!!
