Love Your Heart by Tim McGraw and Tom Douglas

I give this book a whole hearted 5 out of 5 stars!

Let me start with the illustrations, one word, GORGEOUS! Abigail Marble did a fantastic job with capturing this story in picture that had my kids sitting all around me (I have 4) completely enthralled and asking for an encore when I was done.

The story is completely heart warming and such a wonderful message for out children to hear. Doing something nice for someone else is always a wonderful gift in life and it doesn't have to cost you anything more than your time and your talent. God equips each one of us to do a job He calls us to do we just need to keep our eyes open for the opportunities! LOVE this book!

I received an advanced copy of this book through Thomas Nelson Publishings Book Blogger program at www.booksneeze.com. I am not required in any way to give a good review. This is my honest review.

Gone by Lisa McMann

I give this book 2.5 stars out of 5

Gone is the continuing story of Janie and her struggles as a dream catcher. She is faced with some serious decisions in this third and final book of the Wake series. She has learned that if she continues to work in other people's dreams she will end up blind within a few short years and will lose the use of her hands and feet within the next decade. But the other option would mean leaving Cabel behind and starting a life completely isolated from the world. What would you choose? Physical health but mentally and emotionally cut off from all the people you love or Continue the life that you know also knowing that you will be rendered almost completely handicapped by the age of 30? Here lies Janie's dilemma...

So I have read this trilogy over the past 4 days. The first book started out strong, loved it and couldn't wait to continue on. Book 2 had major language issues for me, but I finished it and still enjoyed the story. Book 3 just started to get boring for me and I'm sorry to say that I'm glad there isn't a book 4 to follow. I don't think I will recommend this series to my friends, I'll probably be donating my copies to my library since I don't think I'll ever re-read them.

If you're reading this review I will assume you have already read Wake and Fade, if not... see my reviews for those first. This final book is written in the same choppy style but is a little harder to follow than the first two books. I found myself having to read some of the "sentences" (fragments is the real word to use) multiple times to figure out what she meant. The same thing goes for Gone as went with the previous two books... the language was bad. A lot of using the Lord's name and a lot of *F* words thrown in. Not as much as in Fade, but still quite a bit.

I think she wraps up the series nicely and gives good closure to the characters leaving nothing hanging. I never really got emotionally invested in this series because the characters are never really completely developed. Each book is quite short and are broken down in a timeline, like a schedule. Not very personal.