Watch Over Me Review from Mary DeMuth
From Mary DeMuth:
I truly fell in love with the struggling characters in Watch Over Me, a novel about loss, need, soul damage, and relationships that heal. Christa Parrish knows how to draw a reader into a complex, emotional, but not overwrought story. Her subtlety is superb. She entices the reader with just enough to want more, painstakingly unfolding the story.
Watch over Me opens with a marriage in crisis, a PTSD former soldier struggling with unruly emotions and his peace-loving wife. Distance defines them. When the husband, now a police officer, finds an abandoned baby and brings her home to foster, the fissures in their marriage widen. Woven into that relationship is a deaf teenage boy who desperately needs a family. I loved this book. Loved the characters. Loved everything about it.
While you’re at it, visit Mary’s excellent blog to learn more about her two critically-acclaimed new novels, Daisy Chain and A Slow Burn.
After reading Watch Over Me, I am adding Christa Parrish to my “favorite authors” list.
The first page of this book rocked my senses. I was intrigued and yet haunted by the initial subject matter (an abandoned newborn baby found in a grocery sack) – it was so gripping that I had to sit down and keep reading.
Benjamin and Abbi broke my heart as I read about their struggles. I could easily imagine what it must have been like for him to come home from Afghanistan with post traumatic stress disorder and what it must have been like for Abbi to long for the husband she used to know.
Benjamin discovers the abandoned baby girl, whom they agree to foster and they both begin to fall in love with her while trying to find their way back to each other.
This Christian Fiction novel was unlike so many others I’ve read – the characters got inside my head and heart and I could hardly put the book down. The issues are relevant to present day and the story is so beautifully complex – a love story with many facets.
If you read one Christa Parrish novel…..make it this one!
Wow, thanks for the excellent review, Lily!