Despite needing a heart
transplant and against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda
to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to
spend it helping children—especially since there will be no children of her
own. The only problem is Major League Baseball player Marcus Dillinger, the man
she never meant to fall in love with. Neither Marcus nor Mary Catherine’s other
friends—Tyler Ames and Sami Dawson—know just how serious her heart condition
is.
Still, Marcus is sure in the
depths of his soul that something isn’t right. Ultimately, his correspondence
with Mary Catherine leads him on a desperate life-or-death mission to rescue
her and get her to a US hospital before time runs out. Meanwhile, Sami and
Tyler struggle with issues of their own. In a season when Tyler plans to ask
Sami to marry him, the very core of their relationship is in jeopardy.
The team of angels walking is
busier than ever in this epic battle between life and death. Brush of Wings is a poignant tale of love, sacrifice, and
the power of faith.
Brush of Wings is the third
book in Karen Kingsbury’s Angels Walking
series, coming after Angels Walking
and Chasing Sunsets. I really enjoyed
both of the previous books in this series, and I’m just a pretty big fan of
Karen’s to begin with, so I was very excited when I friend of mine offered to
lend me this book. I have been dying to know what happens to Tyler, Sami,
Marcus, and Mary Catherine for quite some time now, and I’m so glad I’ve
finally been able to finish this book! While I absolutely love everything Karen
writes, don’t get me wrong, sometimes I struggle to really enjoy her stories—especially
ones like this one—because there is a lot of drama and I have to really be in
the mood for all of that, and in cases like this novel I feel like I’m waiting
for impending doom and that is just a little bit depressing. I mean, I loved
the story and everything had a very
happy ending, but I felt like I was on the edge of my seat just waiting for
something to happen to cause Mary Catherine’s heart to give out, and that took
a lot out of me.
On another
note, though I hate to mention things I didn’t like about stories, I also
struggled with something from the description. In the synopsis, it mentions
Sami and Tyler’s relationship and says something about how he’s ready to
propose, but that they’re struggling with issues of their own and that the core
of their relationship is in jeopardy, but I didn’t really see that in the book.
Maybe I just somehow missed it—I did skim a little through a few parts—but I really
felt that this book focused more on the good parts of their relationship, and
on the struggles of Marcus and Mary Catherine’s.
All in
all though, I did really enjoy this book. I fell completely and utterly in love
with Marcus, and Mary Catherine, back when I was very first introduced to them,
and I couldn’t help falling in love with their relationship, no matter the many
ups and downs it had to take. Theirs was a whirlwind romance, despite the many,
many circumstances holding it back—including Mary Catherine’s own reluctance—and
so many of their moments together made me realize even more just how precious
of a gift real love like that is.
I wish I
could give this book all five bookshelves, because I did enjoy so, so much of
it, but I just can’t let myself doing that considering the many concerns I expressed
earlier in this review. However, I will give it four out of five, which is just
one step down, and I will say it hasn’t altered my love for Karen and her
writing in the slightest bit. I just wish it could’ve been an easier read for
me, like Unlocked for instance, which
I’ve read multiple times, the most recent time I devoured the entire book in
one sitting. That being said, I still highly recommend this book, and think it
was the perfect conclusion to Karen’s Angels
Walking series!
Happy
reading!
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