Book Review: With Every Letter by Sarah Sundin, reviewed by April Kidwell

Happy Friday, friends!!

Today we have a book review from, April Kidwell. Please make her feel welcome! She is reviewing With Every Letter, written by Sarah Sundin. Here is April!

April Kidwell is a wife, mother, and writer. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with an incredible science-geek hubby, two fantastic children, and a small menagerie of critters. She has an MDiv in Writing and Curriculum and is a retired teacher. She has completed two contemporary Christian romance novels, Be Still My Heart and Pieces of Her Heart, coming soon.

Here's April and her review of With Every Letter

Have you ever read a book in which you could truly identify with the main character? You recognized her struggles, her pain, her insecurities, and you felt understood?

Sarah Sundin’s With Every Letter was such a book for me.

I sympathized with her inability to connect with the other women in her unit, understood the struggle finding words to say to new people, and empathized with her feelings of inadequacy. So much so, that on more than one occasion I cried.

If you’re an introvert trying to make it in a world of extroverts you will understand. If not? Then you may find her introspection and insecurities vexing and difficult to comprehend.

Either way, Sarah Sundin crafts a beautiful story of love and faith set during World War II. Her research is impeccable and she never fails to transport the reader to another time and place.

This particular story follows the tried and true trope of “The Shop Around the Corner” or “You’ve Got Mail.” Two people anonymously write to one another and begin to fall in love before one discovers the other’s identity. The one who knows the truth must decide how to proceed.

Plenty of fresh elements keep the reader engaged, but a sense of familiarity lends to the overall enjoyment of the story. Sundin’s trademark ability to balance the realities of war, sufficiency of God’s peace, and romance of falling in love shines in this book.

 

Sally here. Thanks so much for being here, April! This sounds like a great book.


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