This Christian romance book is based on the cheese-tastic movie Fireproof starring Kirk Cameron! Silliness aside, this book takes you through 40 days of "dares" to go through, each one reminding you of a certain Biblical principle on marriage and the way to treat your spouse. I read through this book with my Bible study girls, and we didn't let our husbands know that we were Love Daring them, which was sort of fun and sneaky. Everyone can use a nice reminder every once in awhile of what a gift from God your marriage is and how important it is to take the time to care for it the way you must in order for it to fulfill its purpose, so it was fun to go through these dares, and I might pick it up again every few years!
This is the third and final book in the Matched/Crossed series, a favorite of mine from the dystopian theme currently taking over young adult books. I can't say too much about the plot without just spoiler-alerting the first two books, but here's what I can say: While the first book followed only Cassia's point of view, and the second followed Cassia and Ky, this one follows all three of our main characters: Cassia, Ky, and Xander. I actually really enjoyed the constant changes in perspective, as the three of them were often in completely different places working on completely different missions, sometimes not even knowing where or what the others were doing. I also just realized that I can't remember how this book ends, even though I just finished it a week ago, so that might be a good indication that I was somewhat disenchanted by the plot, but, like the previous two books, I find the prose absolutely enthralling. It reads like poetry or a song, and the author's choices of what she includes and what she very purposefully leaves out is so intriguing. Hey, Hollywood: I know we're already started on the movies of Divergent, but let's do this series next!
The movie is so incredibly cheesy... and I cry like a baby EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.
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I've heard of that first book, sounds really good!
ReplyDeleteAs for the second book, I read that too. I had pre-ordered it and read it in like two days. What can I say? I love me a good YA trilogy. The only thing is that I read the first two a while back so it was a little hard for me to remember the plots... I still enjoyed it though.