There Will Be Stars by Billy Coffey

  

   Coffey once again spins a tale centered in the town of Mattingly. I have looked at this area before back in 2014 when I reviewed The Devil Walks in Mattingly. This time around the story is easier to follow.

   The main character is Bobby Barnes who along with six other characters keep living the same day over and over again. They are not allowed to die. There is uncompleted business each has. Until they complete the task, they cannot be released to death.

   Bobby is the character we see the action through. He notices the decay coming around him and strives to escape before all is destroyed. Where ever he is appears to be a place of danger.

   Time seems to play a part in the plot.

    I am not sure I understand the message. Each book has a message or else it wouldn’t be published.

    The fly leaf suggests the search for truth. If so, it wasn’t clear to me. What was clear to me is Coffey writes stories about a place called Mattingly attempting to convey some truth.

     I would recommend this book as a good read.

     I was sent this book free from Book Look Bloggers for the purpose of a review. I was not required to fall in love with it in order to keep my position as a reviewer.

The Unertaker's Wife by Dee Oliver

 

A delightful book on a subject most of us deny will happen but it does to us all. The subject is death.

It is not morbid. It is very cheerful and instructive.

Dee fell in love with Johnnie who happened to be a fourth generation funeral director. On her first date they stopped to pick up a body to transport to the mortuary.

They got married and had children and twenty years later he died of a stroke. She had to pick up her life. She decided to go into the family business of funeral director.

She returned to school and got her degree. The family business didn’t want her so she had to do her internship with the colored undertaker in another part of town. This being the South it was a first.

She proved to be a survivor.

In the last part of the book she gives some helpful advice to those of us who need to plain for the event.

I found the story to flow nicely and the information to be easy to digest.

The publisher is Zondervan and the gospel is presented in a harmless and non-evasive manner through the memorial service.

I would recommend this book for all lovers of romance. Also for those who need to be reminded what to leave behind in instructions and help.

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The Undertaker's Wife: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Laughter in the Unlikeliest of Places