Janice Thompson

Dear Readers,

 

I was looking for a light romance to review in celebration of Valentine's Day and The Dream Dress by Janice Thompson fit the bill.  Janice has a gift for writing cute stories, with powerful meaning tucked in between the pages.

 

Gabi dreams of being more than a seamstress, she wants to design wedding dresses.  Her sketch book is full of ideas and she is working on a dress for her friend, but she knows that if her boss finds out what she is doing on the side he will fire her and she can't afford that.

 

I could go into more details of what the storyline is about, but those are easy enough to get off the back cover.  Janice does a lovely job of writing a story that is for a variety of ages with an important message to us all. 

I loved the Cinderella sample and the thought that maybe that fairytale wasn't written about a prince and the cinder-girl, but about God's love for us.  Janice weaves that through out the entire story, different themes about God's love for us instead of a person's love for us.  How maybe that is what we are really searching for when we are looking for love in all the wrong people.

 

With the themes of finding a mate and the relationship between fathers and daughters running throughout the entire book, this may seem like a light read, but it is so much more than that.  It is one I would gladly share with any one struggling with those issues in their lives.

 

Happy Reading

Janice Thompson

Dear Readers,

Swinging on a Star by Janice Thompson is a book that I was asked to read.  Romantic Comedies are great for movies, but for me, not in a book.  Not that this is not a fun little book, just not my favorite genre.

Bella wonders what a normal family would be like.  You know the kind, one that quietly eats dinner together.  One that discusses differences and logically agrees to disagree sometimes.  One that is well ... normal.

 

Her family is far from that.  Whether it is the running arguement her Uncle Laz and Aunt Rosa have about who is the better singer, Dino or Old Blue Eyes, a singing bird or just general chaos, her family is not normal.

Throw in a visit from the Food Network, a visiting Hollywood star and a Renaissance wedding, complete with castle and knights in shining armor, and Bella wonders, is anyone going to escape with their sanity intact?

This is book #2 in the Weddings by Bella series and a delight to read.  I do recommend starting with Fools Rush In and follow it with #3 It had to be You.   It wasn't hard to figure out what was going on in book two, but why miss out on the adventure of those other stories, and I can only imagine the adventures that Bella gets into.

Happy Reading