Can she trust Michael beyond what he appears to be hiding from her, or will her own fears cloud her judgement when extreme danger surfaces? UNCOMMON GROUND is Book 1 of the Pleasant Hearts & Elliot-Kings Christian Suspense Series which unwraps the journeys of four orphaned Christian sisters, all in their thirties, and told they'll never marry. In the ensuing chaos, she runs into Michael, a Christian man with a mysterious past whom danger seemed to follow-and she wondered how many more unseen twists God trusted her her fragile heart to handle. Stella's concerns multiplied when she gets lost in search of Sharon. Sharon instead held strongly to what they taught her in school-until the day a disaster struck and the ground physically gave way-altering both their perspectives about each other, and more than one person's resistance to God.
While Stella believed in God, her daughter didn't. Their common ground crumbled beneath their different beliefs about God. Widowed and now single, Stella Heart juggled between managing her professional career and struggling to communicate with her teenage daughter, Sharon. Finding his heart unattached to her was his. Which is unfortunate, as these gapless section breaks could be so easily fixed by any entry-level sound engineer.A Christian Suspense series Finding her daughter after a disaster, before it was too late, was her greatest challenge. When you add this to the author's lack of narrative structure beyond the straightforward dates-and-places of other dry tomes, this strange production quirk oddly contributed to the book's overall encyclopedic feel.
I've never experienced this in any of several hundred non-fiction audiobooks, so it's a bit puzzling how the publisher allowed it to happen. Other than chapter breaks, there are no pauses between sections, which consistently created jarring transitions that required effort to figure out that we have left the previous section and started a new, virtually unrelated topic. Worse however - and this will sound like a quibble, but it was quite severe in its impact - is the audiobook's strange production when it comes to spacing between sections. I never quite grew accustomed to Boston's voice for this project, though his reading was clear and professional. I also found the recording to be lacking. The book's encyclopedic breadth was unfortunately matched with an encyclopedic writing style for much of the book.
It's true, I now know a lot more about coffee, but I feel as though it was an enormous missed opportunity. A history of coffee should have been an utterly fascinating read, but I found it a chore to finish, despite my gnawing curiosity, owing to the book's lack of narrative flourish, themes, patterns, throughlines, and the other analysis and synthesis that makes great history books great. Huge props to the author's fine research and ambitious thoroughness.
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