Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Barefoot Summer Book Review

Barefoot Summer by Denise Hunter is the emotional story of Madison moving on from her brother's dead and accepting that bad things happen- and despite that God is good.
   Madison thinks that if she wins the annual boat race she will be able to accept her brother's death by drowning. So she makes plans to take sailing lessons- carefully laid out plans that are messed up when bad-boy from her past Beckett becomes her teacher. But because she wants to know how to sail, she takes it. Through the summer she finds that Beckett is actually a kind, Godly man. She comes to care for him and even wins the race. But still the mystery and pain of her brother's death linger, and Beckett's secret is still in the backround. 
    I liked this book. Denise Hunter knows how to write a very emotionally gripping novel and I would recommend it for anyone.