The Opportunist

This book caught my eye because it was $4 on my kindle and looked interesting.

(Can I just say one of the things I love the most about my kindle, besides being able to read in the middle of the night, is that I can tape on any word in a book and it will define it for me.  It has been wonderful to learn what these big words authors use actually mean.)

 

Anyway...this book is about a "damaged" young woman.  Her father left when she was young and only came back around when he was broke and would take whatever money her mother had made for food.  At times that left them eating nothing because daddy dearest took the last dollar and went to McDonald's for his own dinner.  Awful and sad.  At the age of 17 her mother died.  She is basically alone. 

 

The hunk of the book comes for booka-bucks and a mother that is a snob. 

 

Together they make one hot mess.  They might be in love but it isn't really a healthy relationship. 

 

I can't decide what I think about this book.  One on hand it had some language and a few sexual scenes that I could have done without.  On the other hand it was interesting to read about how messed up people can be without a moral compass.  When they aren't taught correctly what happens...

 

I am glad I read this book it was interesting and I wanted to know what happened to the characters in the end. 

 

 

 



Keeping Faith

Faith is a little girl in the middle of a horrible situation.  For the first chuck of her life her mother was a little too self absorbed for a mother and then one day they came home to find her father home with another women.  GROSS.  AWFUL. 

 

It sent Faith's mom into a spiral down into a deep depression as she dealt with the rejection as well as a divorce her husband was now filling.  Faith withdrew into her own world.  She didn't understand who the woman was and in her mind her Daddy left because of her.  She quites talking.

 

And then she begins to have an imaginary friend who teachers her scriptures and songs that her parents never taught.  In fact they never went to church or had any religious leanings.  How is this little girl doing this?  And then miracles begin happening.

 

In this day and age a little girl performing miracles will draw a crowd...and boy does it.  As the divorce goes from awful to ugly Faith's mom becomes the mother she always dreamed of...because she realized that motherhood isn't perfection, it isn't doing everything right while wearing the perfect clothes and beautiful hair.  It is loving completely no matter what and doing what is best for her child.

 

It was a good book.  Since I have very little knowledge about the Catholic faith or the Jewish beliefs I was learning a lot in this book.  It was interesting for sure.  Plus it was an amazing story.  Then again if you have ever read a novel by Jodi Piclout then you know that her stories have layers...many layers. 

 

There was some language but I would still say it was a good book and I am glad I read it.