The Bridge by Karen Kingsbury

What book lover would hate the setting of this book?!  The Bridge is a bookstore that is in financial distress, but it is a bookstore that is a landmark in Franklin, Tennessee.  All of the locals know about it and go there.  Well, they used to until the 100-year flood destroyed the store and all of the items inside of it. 

The Bridge is much more though.  It also happens to be the one place that Molly Allen and Ryan Kelly could go to share their passions about books.  It was the place where Molly could be free and know that her father didn't have someone watching her and her movements 24/7.  It was the place where they could fall in love and dream and hope could grow.  But when their dreams get squelched and the beloved owners of the Bridge fall on hard times, will either find hope again?  Will the Bridge once again offer treasured books to customers and will it bridge a relationship that may not be meant to happen?

I am a huge Karen Kingsbury fan and this book was as great as all of her other books.  She writes in such a way that makes you feel like you are walking along on a journey with the characters.  She knows how to tug at the heart and get you so absorbed in her books that you just can't put it down.

The book itself is a short book, which I found to be a nice change.  I actually could read the book in a few hours with distractions from kids!  I was delighted by that fact alone.  It may be a short book, but it packs a lot of content.  As Kingsbury does in many of her books, she loves to show the redemption of people and that God is a God of second chances. 

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I received a free copy of this book from Howard Books, for my honest review.  The opinions expressed here are my own.