BLOGWORDS – Monday 20 January 2025 – TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY – CATCH-UP BLITZ - BOOK REVIEW – EVERY STAR IN THE SKY BY SARA DAVISON

BLOGWORDS – Monday 20 January 2025 – TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY – CATCH-UP BLITZ - BOOK REVIEW – EVERY STAR IN THE SKY BY SARA DAVISON 

TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY CATCH-UP BLITZ - BOOK REVIEW – EVERY STAR IN THE SKY BY SARA DAVISON

 

 THE BOOK

 

 THE BLURB

She is willing to testify against her trafficker.
If she can stay alive that long.

“You’re safe here, Starr.”
How many times has Detective Cole Blacksky said that to her since helping her escape the life she’d been forced into eight years earlier?
Starr desperately wants to believe him, but she knows Brady Erickson, her former captor, too well. Although Cole has promised her protective custody on his family’s remote ranch, no place on earth is safe enough. Brady will stop at nothing to permanently silence her before she ever reaches the witness stand.
And he is powerful enough to do it.
If Starr wants to help the other women, she has no choice but to put herself in God’s hands. And Cole’s. But the longer she and Cole stay hidden, the more her life is at risk.
And her heart.

TW: human trafficking, some violence, sexual intimacy inferred (clean and closed door)

 

THE AUTHOR

Sara Davison is the author of the romantic suspense series The Day Draws Near, The Night Guardians, The Rose Tattoo Trilogy, In the Shadows, and two sparrows for a penny, as well as the standalone speculative, The Watcher. A finalist for more than a dozen national writing awards, Davison is a Holt Medallion, Cascade, and two-time Carol Award winner. She currently resides in Ontario, Canada with her husband, Michael. Like every good Canadian, she loves hockey, poutine, and apologizing for no particular reason.

 

MY REVIEW

I so appreciate Christian authors who are willing to write about the ugly side of life. Who show that bad things do, in fact, happen to good people. And that it is only the grace of Father God that sustains them (us) and sees them through. Ms. Davison reminds the reader that slavery is not limited to plantations in the Sough (of the U.S.) nor to a couple of hundred years. Rather, slavery has many forms, has existed from the beginning of time, and continues to the present day.

The author not only braves that front, but she offers the reader a positive means to help—to pray, even if we cannot do something tangible.

So often I think we forget that our Bible heroes were men and women just like us. We tend to relegate them to mere historical figures, who no longer walk among us. But Starr was very much a ‘Daniel in the lion’s den,’ looking to God for her rescue. Trusting that He would make a way of escape. With faith so strong she was able to encourage the other girls, to comfort them.

Trauma leaves scars, though, no matter how much its victim knows and trusts God to rescue. [SPOILER]

I’ve read stories where one of the characters is a “Jesus figure.” I don’t mean someone with a Jesus complex, but one who lives the love of Christ, whose life touches others with their actions. Usually that person is a believer ministering to one who is not. Ms. Davison, however, flips that; it is Cole who demonstrates Christ’s love. Starr’s faith is strong but she is wounded.

Cole knew the Bible early in life, but his faith waned, nearly completely petered out. Yet, he is the one God manifests His love through, ministering to both Starr and himself.

Ms. Davison writes such taut stories, such vile topics. Such profound truth. Her books are always page turners, urging the reader on to the end, nudging the reader to pray—if not for fictional characters, for the very real people trapped in very real circumstances.

 

* previously reviewed on 4/26/22 at https://robinsnest212.wordpress.com/2022/04/27/blogwords-tuesday-26-april-2022-tuesday-reviews-day-book-review-every-star-in-the-sky-by-sara-davison/

 

ROBIN’S FEATHERS

ALL | THE | FEATHERS!

 

 

I received a complimentary copy of this book but was under no obligation to read it or to post a review. I offer my review of my own free will. The opinions expressed in my review are my honest thoughts and reaction to this book.

 

 

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