Waiting for Morning

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Summary: Waiting For Morning: A Dream Destroyed
Review: "There was a horrific jolt and the defending sound of twisting, sparking metal and shattering glass. Jenny screamed, but it was to late. The explorer took to the air like a child's toy spinning wildly and coming to rest wrapped around a telephone pole a hundred feet away." In Karen Kingsbury's Waiting For Morning, the tragedies represent life experiences. This book is interesting and heart warming. It is hard to put down.
Hannah Ryan waits for her two girls and wonderful husband to come home from a summer camping trip. It is a perfect Christian family with nothing missing or where anything could go wrong. They got in a wreck with an unstable drunk driver. Instantly, her oldest daughter and husband died. The youngest daughter lives, but goes through severe trauma. Hannah tries to convict the driver of first-degree murder. It will be the biggest charge for drunk driving in the history of California. At the same time, it just makes things insoluble between her daughter and herself when both are bewildered about the accident.
Kingsbury makes the characters very easy to understand. Hannah Ryan is portrayed as a dynamic character in direct characterization. Jenny, her daughter, a very round character, struggles with so many difficulties after the deaths of her family members. Both struggle with unspeakable feelings of sorrow and rage that fuse into one chilling purpose for living. All Hannah wants is revenge against Brian Wesley, the drunk driver that causes her all the pain. In fury of things going on, Hannah shuts the Lord out of her life, the biggest mistake of all.
It is not very difficult nor too easy to follow along with. The book's superior ways in the dialogue is extremely intelligible. Although the characters are older, the reading is not too mature for younger teens. The language is internal. It speaks to the inside of your heart. The tone can make a person change completely, or can shake them up. It is also shocking at times with a touch of thrill.
When the holidays arrive, everything becomes a lot harder for everyone. The Novel takes place in a city in the mists of California. It takes place around the time of holidays and vacations, which makes it more difficult on Jenny and Hannah.
The story, told in third person omniscient, revolves around Hannah. A couple of flashbacks take place while she remembers memories, and looks back at old pictures. The foreshadowing works greatly and proves that someone can live for something that they cannot find in themselves. "I don't need God anymore..." becomes the realistic nature of this novel. Horrible circumstances make many people question their faith.
Waiting For Morning, by Karen Kingsbury, a fantastic book on true-life experiences, keeps the reader on edge, waiting for the next sight. It can have a huge effect on a person from laughing, to crying, to smiling. It can and will leave the readers in true amazement. If people need to find themselves or find the truth in the Lord during hard battles, this book is wonderful.

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Summary: Well Done, Karen Kingsbury
Review: Back when I was driver's ed, an instructer from Mother's Against Drunk Driving came to the class and told her story. When I read this story by Kingsbury, I felt like I was reliving the story that Mother had told, only this time being able to travel on a spritual journey of forgiveness more real than I've ever read. I must admit that it's kind of hard to sit through all the bitterness that dwells on the inside of Hannah, but you can't help but understand her pain. For anyone with older teens/young adults, this would be a great book to encourage them to read. Kingsbury does an incredibly job painting the picture of a perfect family that is literally destroyed by a drunk driver. It clearly portrays the many obstacles that Hannah and her daughter must push through in order to finally begin living again. Well done Kingsbury.

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Summary: forgiveness
Review: I can't even put into words the emotion that I felt in this book. I can neither comprehend or imagine what it must have took to forgive such a terrible tragedy. Only God could make such mountains move in us. I know Karen Kingbury and know that she must have cried her way through the writing of this book because she could she could hear the laughter and tiny voices of her own children in the background. I can only hope that I, If tested would have a small portion of the love and forgiveness that was written about in this book. Powerful and moving and more important relevant in a world where forgivness is in short supply. As for me, I will ask for forgiveness and forgive those who have tresspassed against me, It is the least I can do for a God like mine. A God that is always with us and a God that always promises a new morning. Good Job Karen......

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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: I read this book in two days... I just could not stop! It was awesome. Ms. Kingsbury really has a gift from God on writing this. I can not wait to read more of her books.
I could relate in a way to this book... my cousin was killed by a guy falling asleep at the wheel. He walked away and she died. Then he got a few hundred dollar fine, a month or so in jail and that was it. It just wasn't fair for what all my whole family had to go through because of that. I just pray more people pass this book on and read it...

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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: I read this book in two days... I just could not stop! It was awesome. Ms. Kingsbury really has a gift from God on writing this. I can not wait to read more of her books.
I could relate in a way to this book... my cousin was killed by a guy falling asleep at the wheel. He walked away and she died. Then he got a few hundred dollar fine, a month or so in jail and that was it. It just wasn't fair for what all my whole family had to go through because of that. I just pray more people pass this book on and read it...

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Summary: Waiting For Morning
Review: Karen Kingsbury is one of my favorite author. I've read every one of her books! I recommend everybody to read her books!

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Summary: Waiting For Morning
Review: Karen Kingsbury is one of my favorite author. I've read every one of her books! I recommend everybody to read her books!

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Summary: Powerful and beautifully written
Review: Like Kingsbury's Where Yesterday Lives, this is a powerful story of family relationships and the tests they face when tragedy strikes. Kingsbury's masterful weaving of scripture texts from Lamentations give the novel a deep poignancy. The details are so rich and real that if I didn't know better, I would think the author wrote the story from personal experience. Karen Kingsbury can't write fast enough to suit me!

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Summary: Sometimes bad things happen to good people - even Christians
Review: Not long after I started writing novels, I befriended a woman who had lost her husband in a drunk driving accident. The most amazing thing, though, wasn't her loss but her determination to remain at peace with God and her situation. I asked her how she'd survived, how she'd been able to go on after losing the love of her life...Her answer was simply the most profound truth - one we must all grasp if we are to survive the trials of life. She told me she'd made a decision to forgive. Looking him directly in the eyes, she told the drunk driver that she had forgiven him. Waiting for Morning was born of that time, that friendship. And that lesson so desperately needed by all of us.

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Summary: Waiting For Morning
Review: The night the Blazers lost their final game to the Lakers, I met author Karen Kingsbury sitting next to me on a plane from Chicago to Portland. Fate is strong and I believe that God has plans for us that only he knows. She gave me her book, Waiting For Morning, and I could not put it down. I have already read all her true crime books (another favorite genre of mine) and recently started reading Christian books. I could not put this down. It moved me. It showed real emotion. It is written in an organized and real manner. And you will not be able to wait for the end. Books which cause me to think about my own life rank high in my charts...this is one of those page-turners.