Jade and Max share a deep love, though revelations from his past have recently shaken their marriage. And Jade is completely smitten with Max's little son, Asa, whom she is now raising as her own. Their blended family brings her a joy she's never known. But there is one more secret to be uncovered. One that will impact them all.
Max is doing his best to "man-up" and prove himself worthy of Jade's devotion. As well as that of his young son. It seems like life in Whisper Hollow, Tennessee, will pick up where it left off until Max is faced with an unusual opportunity-leave his family's law firm to coach high-school football in Texas.
Realizing a fresh start will bring healing to their marriage, Jade takes the leap of faith and moves with him and baby Asa, bidding good-bye to her beloved Blue Umbrella shop.
The new beginning in quaint Colby, Texas, is soon sullied when Max discovers the high-school program isn't all it seemed. While Max struggles to rebuild a once glorious football team, Jade wrestles with news that could break Max's heart and change their lives forever." (Amazon.com - http://www.amazon.com/Love-Lifted-Me-Songbird-Novel/dp/1595544917)
The story is wonderful and so emotional. You laugh and even cry with Jade. You hate and love Max. And their love to Asa is so beautiful!
They stay in the place where their heart is, where they belong to. No, not a lawyer office, and not a Blue Umbrella shop, but where their faith leads to.
Sara Evans inspires her readers to have a deep belief in God and people whom you love. In this book trust is the main leading "vehicle" of the story. Secrets cannot be kept from the one you love, and hardships can be overcome if you trust God and the person you love.
The main characters are well introduced but the development is a little undone. Maybe there should be more inside "riding" in their thoughts.
Also I wish Asa's character would be more introduced. This little boy played one of the main roles in changing Jade's and Max's life but yet we so little of him (he had routine habits, and...). I wish we could come closer to his thoughts, to his feelings about the people whom he loves and who love him.
The book is very easy to read, no burdens of sophisticated lines. But yet it's too easy. The lack of more vivid characters, or, I would say, the lack of descriptions of characters, makes the book to be left in the stage of bud. It needs to have more "rain" to be bloomed, more paintings, more colours.
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I read and gave my review of a complimentary copy of Love Lifted Me by Sara Evans with Rachel Hauck which was provided me by http://www.booksneeze.com.
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