One Sunday by Carrie Gerlach Cecil

I absolutely love the style of this book.  It was refreshing because it read in a way that many of my latest books haven't.  It set it apart, in a sense. 

I liked the flashbacks and the honesty in which this book was written.  I enjoyed the humor and even the darkness that plagued Alice.  I can't relate to her life but I hurt for her.  I found her adventures and her thoughts in church hilarious.  It wasn't sacrilegious at all.  I thought it pretty well depicted what many non-believers feel about the church today. 

The only problem that I had with the book were the few instances that less-than-pleasant words were used, like "hell" and "d***."  I don't personally use those words and since reading Christian fiction is something I like to do because I don't have to censor what my eyes see or my ears hear, it was a little disappointing to me to find those words in there.  I completely understood the context and understand that she was a non-Christian, but they could easily have been left out and the meaning not change at all.  You still would have gotten the fact that Alice was a rough girl with a rough past.  Many people don't mind those kind of words in a book, but I just really like letting my guard down in reading, which is why I specifically chose to read Christian fiction.

The message of the book is still wonderful and the storyline grips you to make it quite hard to put the book down.  I do look forward to reading more by Carrie Gerlach Cecil.

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I received this book free from Howard Publishers in exchange for my honest opinion of this book.