Echoes

I've read the books in the Glenbrooke Series and I've decided that I enjoy Echoes the most. It makes me think of the movie I saw with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan called You've Got Mail. The two characters in the story are having a wonderful relationship using email and you hope they'll finally get together in person.I kind of wondered when I started this book, how it would finally tie into Glenbrooke, since the main character, Lauren, lives in the south. But Robin Jones Gunn brought it all back to Glenbrooke in an interesting way. One of the reasons I enjoyed this series so much is because the books all have nice, likeable Christian characters. When you read about Glenbrooke, you wish you lived in a town like that!

Echoes explores on-line relationships. Lauren, fresh from a broken romance, "meets" KC on line, and they strike up a friendship in cyberspace. Both share a love for everything Victorian, including Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barret Browning, and English Breakfast tea. After a year of corresponding through the magic of the "Web," Lauren finally realizes that she loves KC. Circumstances allow her to finally meet him face to face, but she "chickens out" at the last minute and stands him up. Will Lauren ever meet her true love? And will he actually live up to all that she believes of him? What is God trying to tell Lauren to do with her life? This is a great Christian romance novel, and I recommend it highly.

In Echoes, Robin Jones Gunn creates characters that really seem to live. After a painful breakup, Lauren meets another believer, known only as K.C., on-line. They begin an intense e-mail relationship, one that others are not likely to understand. How can she be in love with a man she has never even seen? To find out how it ends, you'll have to read it for yourself. After you do, I would recommend that you go back and read the first two books in the Glenbrooke series, which give background information about other characters. And, after you read this, you'll be glad to know that Lauren and K.C. appear in other books later in the series. Enjoy!

I especially enjoyed this book because the main character was believable and likeable. The problems she faced were some many of us can relate to. The humor Robin Jones Gunn puts in her books is priceless! I especially like the fact that the recipes for all the yummy food she mentions are in the back of the book. I would recommend this book to anyone!

I really really enjoyed this book. I am now reading another of hers, Sunsets, which is good also. I will have to keep on reading more of her books as they have really entertained and uplifted me. I read on my break at work and sometimes I laugh out loud because of the funny things she says in her books and I'm sure my coworkers are wondering what I'm reading. lol Anyway, I'd recommend this book! It's interesting how she and the guy met on the internet and corresponded for a year and then eventually met. I really like the christian values in her books!