BLOGWORDS – Tuesday 19 August 2025 – TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY – UNCHARTED JOY by KEELY BROOKE KEITH
BLOGWORDS – Tuesday 19 August 2025 – TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY – UNCHARTED JOY by KEELY BROOKE KEITH
TUESDAY
REVIEWS-DAY - BOOK REVIEW – UNCHARTED JOY by KEELY BROOKE KEITH
THE BOOK
THE BLURB
While Anna opens a restaurant in Good Springs, curious
schoolteacher Caleb’s quest for truth stirs rebellion, romance, and a spiritual
awakening in the village.
Daydreaming of running a restaurant sparks joy in Anna Cotter’s solemn heart
while she works in her mother’s bakery with her two sisters. Her dream seems
impossible until she inherits a charming cottage in the heart of Good Springs.
Determined to make her restaurant a blessing to the village, Anna faces
challenges from the elder council and a group of rebels who gather at her
tables.
New-in-town schoolteacher Caleb McIntosh spends his evenings researching the
outsiders who have come to the Land in recent years. He uses the village’s new
restaurant to work on his manuscript and is struck to the core by the
proprietor’s confidence, beauty, and uncrackable demeanor.
Anna can handle demanding customers and the council’s edicts, but when the
village’s new know-it-all schoolteacher spreads his papers across her corner
table every day, her resolve is tested. Yet, as Caleb introduces her to new
ideas about the world, faith, and love, her carefully constructed walls begin
to crumble.
As a spiritual revival sweeps through Good Springs, tensions rise with whispers
of rebellion. When a mysterious ship appears off the Land’s coast, the stakes
escalate, and Anna’s dream teeters on the brink of disaster. With Caleb’s
research revealing life-altering truths, both their futures hang in the
balance.
THE AUTHOR
Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, Keely was a tree-climbing, baseball-loving 80s kid. After a 15-year career as a homeschool teacher, she now enjoys exploring the hidden gems of small-town America on road trips with her husband. Wherever the journeys take her, Keely always returns to her hilltop home south of Nashville, Tennessee, where she dreams up stories about a hidden land.
MY REVIEW
Well that’s a cliff hanger and a half!
The characters in each of the stories in this series face very real dilemmas and problems, some in their environment, some within themselves. And in each story, it is their faith and family or community that rallies to see them through.
Anna Cotter is resigned to the life of an old maid. An old maid who runs a restaurant, an unheard of concept in The Land. Caleb McIntosh’s dream is even more unheard of—but that’s a complete [SPOILER.] And it is his vision that leaves the reader chomping for the next book.
ROBIN’S FEATHERS
FOUR FEATHERS
I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
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