Saving Grace

This is a great story and written very well. Denise Hunter is a great author, very similar to Nicholas Sparks. It's the type of book that you are really sad to finish it.

Name: Purple Pioneers Title: Saving Grace Author: Denise Hunter Publisher: Howard Publishing Co. Inc. Copyright Date: 2005 Total Number of Pages: 296 "The girl's eyes fixed on the test. Natalie could see the moment she understood. Her eyes widened for just a moment before they closed. When the opened them, her gaze swung to Natalie's, her eyes filled with desperation. `I'm pregnant."' Natalie Coombs owns Jackson Hole Hope Center, a free health clinic for girls who become pregnant and either don't have enough money to have the baby or they don't know if they want to keep it or are just too scared to know what to do. Just like most other girls that come in, Natalie feels a strong need to help Linn. But, unlike the other girls that come in, she feels the need to become friends with Linn and to invite her into her home. When Linn finally figures out what she wants to do with her baby, Natalie isn't quite sure if she want to go through with it, even though she feels like she has almost no choice. Linn wants Natalie to adopt her baby, but she knows that if Natalie knew who she really was, she wouldn't want to do it any more. My favorite part of the book is when Linn goes in to have an ultrasound done on her baby. I like this part because it talks about how the ultrasound shows the hands and feet and even the beating heart of the baby. I just think that is amazing that at only eight weeks into the pregnancy, you can already see the little fingers and toes and heart of the baby. It was also really cool that Linn decided to not have an abortion after she was shown the ultrasound. Throughout this book, both Natalie and Paula struggle with judging people. When Natalie finds out who Linn really is, she has a really hard time even considering adopting Linn's baby. After thinking about it, she realizes that you can't judge a person by what they have done before. Even if we want to judge someone at all, it is not our job to be doing the judging. We especially can't change our minds about someone when we figure out what they have done before. If we can become friends with someone without knowing their past, then it shouldn't matter what their past is because we didn't become friends with them because of their past, we became friends with them because of who they are now. Denise Hunter does a really good job in being able to keep the reader reading. When I read this book I had a really hard time putting the book down because it was so good. I think that teenage Christian girls would like this book because it was written by a Christian author, so it has a Christian theme to it. Also, it was written more for girls in the fact that it talks about love and getting pregnant and why not to have an abortion. Denise Hunter does a really good job of talking about these things without actually going out and saying, "Don't have an abortion" or "Just because you think you love someone doesn't mean that you have to get pregnant with them." She says th

this book kept up pace until the end. Natalie a crisis pregnancy director becomes close to one of the teenagers that comes into the clinic seeking help. Linn, the pregnant teenager wants Natalie to adopt her baby. An interesting turn of events and a new man in Natalies life all make this book an enjoyable one. this is the second book in this series and i think the better of the two. Mending Places is book one. I look forward to #3 soon. Denise keep up the good work!!!