Chasing Sunsets by Eva Marie Everson

Back Cover:
Kimberly Tucker's life hasn't turned out the way she thought it would. While her ex is living it up, she struggles to understand what went wrong. When her tow sons end up spending five weeks of summer vacation with their father, Kim plans a respite at the family vacation home on tiny Cedar Key. As she revisits the long-forgotten past, she discovers that treasures in life are often buried, ad sometimes you do get a second chance at love.


Review:

I believe Eva Marie Everson has successfully written a book about divorce and it's aftermath, and about moving on and second chances.

Everson has done an amazing job on the setting of this book. I could picture the island of Cedar Key in my mind perfectly - the small town feel where everyone knows each other, quiet beaches, spectacular sunsets, and a slow pace of life. 


Everson touches on a touchy subject for some people - realtionships after divorce. Kimberly runs into her first love, Stephen, who met on the island when they were just teenagers, and somewhat blindly rushes headlong into a relationship with a man she hasn't seen in years. And though their only have been together for a very short time, their intention is marriage. Is it alright to remarry after divorce? Mark 10:11-12 says,  "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery." Isn't that pretty black and white?

The novel was very well written, and the author successfully accomplished her goal. I am not sure about the Biblical basis of the book though. I know there are Christians who allow remarriage after divorce, and those who don't. I personally believe it is wrong to remarry after divorce, but that is just my opinion. I know there are many different people with very different situations than my own.


As the first in the Cedar Key Series, I will be interested what Everson writes next for the characters in the story and how she deals with this subject.


This book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.
Available at your favourite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.