ER nurse Taylor, still grieving her husband's death, moves to San Diego to start a new life. Seth, an old friend and crisis chaplain, reconnects with Taylor. I thought this book was very good and am looking forward to the next book in the series.
Stepping through life at your own (and God's) pace
After the death of her husband, Taylor Cabot moves to San Diego as one of the steps on her Survival List. She wants her list completed by the third anniversary of Greg's accident which is looming on the horizon. She has decided to step away from the Crisis Team work she was involved with in Sacramento and has been cutting back on those hours. Seth Donovan knows Taylor is an excellent fit with the Crisis Team but wonders why Taylor has been less than communicative since she left Sacramento. An opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in San Diego helping train a new class of Crisis Team volunteers is just what he needs to find out how Taylor is really doing.
I loved the tie-in from the title of Step by Step to Taylor's life planned in steps to her fitness routine which counted steps. Ms. Calvert did an amazing job of bringing all these ideas together. As one character put it, "'I finally learned to accept that my healing, my new relationships...and my future would move forward according to God's timing, not mine. ...I'm not worried about counting the steps. If I'm going in the right direction, if I'm on the right path, I'll feel that certainty in my soul.'" I liked Taylor, but I thought she was letting others influence her a bit too much in the beginning although she felt she was making the decisions on her own. She also wasn't being honest with herself about how she was doing in her grieving process over the loss of her husband. Kasie Beckett was a darling. I wanted to know how her story ended, but it was still dangling at the end instead of neatly tied up. Seth was a wonderful hero. He had faced some tough times in his life, but they shaped him into the man he became and pointed him to his need for Christ. He was strong and supportive when Taylor needed him. Book three in this series (to be released in the fall) will be about Sloane Wilder, and she was prominent in book two. This surprised me somewhat, but Ms. Calvert tied Sloane's story with Taylor's in a rather unexpected way. I can't say I liked Sloane in this book, but I did have compassion for her. Obviously Sloane's story was left unfinished which makes me eagerly anticipate the next book. As for this one, I laughed; I cried; I pondered. Absolutely recommended!
I received a copy of this book through The Book Club Network in exchange for my honest review.
After the death of her husband, Taylor Cabot moves to San Diego as one of the steps on her Survival List. She wants her list completed by the third anniversary of Greg's accident which is looming on the horizon. She has decided to step away from the Crisis Team work she was involved with in Sacramento and has been cutting back on those hours. Seth Donovan knows Taylor is an excellent fit with the Crisis Team but wonders why Taylor has been less than communicative since she left Sacramento. An opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in San Diego helping train a new class of Crisis Team volunteers is just what he needs to find out how Taylor is really doing.
I loved the tie-in from the title of Step by Step to Taylor's life planned in steps to her fitness routine which counted steps. Ms. Calvert did an amazing job of bringing all these ideas together. As one character put it, "'I finally learned to accept that my healing, my new relationships...and my future would move forward according to God's timing, not mine. ...I'm not worried about counting the steps. If I'm going in the right direction, if I'm on the right path, I'll feel that certainty in my soul.'" I liked Taylor, but I thought she was letting others influence her a bit too much in the beginning although she felt she was making the decisions on her own. She also wasn't being honest with herself about how she was doing in her grieving process over the loss of her husband. Kasie Beckett was a darling. I wanted to know how her story ended, but it was still dangling at the end instead of neatly tied up. Seth was a wonderful hero. He had faced some tough times in his life, but they shaped him into the man he became and pointed him to his need for Christ. He was strong and supportive when Taylor needed him. Book three in this series (to be released in the fall) will be about Sloane Wilder, and she was prominent in book two. This surprised me somewhat, but Ms. Calvert tied Sloane's story with Taylor's in a rather unexpected way. I can't say I liked Sloane in this book, but I did have compassion for her. Obviously Sloane's story was left unfinished which makes me eagerly anticipate the next book. As for this one, I laughed; I cried; I pondered. Absolutely recommended!
I received a copy of this book through The Book Club Network in exchange for my honest review.
