Home of our Hearts

by: Robin Jones Gunn
Publisher: Robin's Nest Productions
Dates Read: Jan. 28 - Feb. 2
Pages: 262
Source: Own it.

Why did I read it?
The Christy Miller series is one of the best on the planet.  

Home of our Hearts picks up just a couple months after the first novel.  This book is basically Christy and Todd travelling to two weddings.  That's right, this book doesn't have one wedding, but two.  It is fantastic.  

We also get the magnificence of reconnecting and finding out what happens with some of Christy's old forever friends.  Doug and Tracy are back in the picture long-term.  We find out what is happening with Katie since leaving her at the end of her own book Finally and Forever.  We even catch up with Todd's dad in the Canary islands.  

I don't want to give spoilers (because I hate spoilers) but I was reading this book in a Tim Hortons while my car was at the mechanic.  At the end of their visit with Katie in Kenya I was sitting at my table nearly in tears.   It was just so beautiful.  Suffice it to say I left the Tim Hortons and walked back to the mechanics a block away so that I wouldn't embarrass myself in the Drayton Valley Tim Hortons.  I'm so glad we got to experience this moment with Christy and Katie and the whole gang.  

Anyway, when I was thinking about their being Christy & Todd: The Married Years, I thought how is Robin Jones Gunn going to get around talking about a very important marital activity.  Young teenage girls will read these books!  Let me say, I never knew there were so many sneaky, poetic ways to say "and then they had sex."  Good for you Robin.  

This book also had a bagillion typos in it.  Robin, let me edit your books!   



Rating: 4.5/5
Two weddings!  Katie is back!  Two weddings!  What's there to complain about (besides the poor editing)?

Recommendation: 
I think that if you have read Christy Miller this far you don't need my recommendation to read it.  If you have not read Christy Miller this far, just do it.