My Thoughts:
This is an older Contemporary or newer historic Christian romance written by author and storyteller extraordinaire, Caryl MacAdoo. The reason I say older is it is set right after the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. While that might not seem historic to me, it actually is.
Bipartisan Love is another delicious serving of God glorifying fiction from author MacAdoo. It is a different type of story and I loved every bit of it. The author’s down home honest style of writing draws me right in from the first page and keeps me until the story is finished. This was filled with emotions, life lessons, faith, humor, and of course romance.
The author has researched her material well. The characters were delightful and very realistic. Each seemed like someone we would know. Conversations were saturated with colloquialisms, making them even more authentic. With the author’s vivid descriptions I felt like I was in the middle of the story myself.
This is the story of Cynthia and Cody, high school sweethearts. It is a tale of forgiveness, trusting God and His timing, starting over again, betrayal, love, and second chances. It is about faith, family, and friends.
I highly recommend this delightfully written novel. It gets a rating of 5 out of 5 stars from me. A copy was provided by Celebrate Lit but I was not required to write a review. These are my own honest words.
About the Book:
Book: Bipartisan Love
Author: Caryl MacAdoo
Genre: Historical Christian Romance
Release date: June 20, 2019
Don’t lean to your own understanding. Acknowledge God in all your ways, and He will direct your path.
Does time truly heal a broken heart?
Cody thought it had until she walked into the diner like she owned the world and back into his life as if she owned him.
Can betrayal ever be completely forgiven?
Cindy thought it could until she saw him with the bleached blonde. Her Cody!
Separated eighteen years, Cody Wayne Buckmeyer and Cindy think they can put the past behind them and work toward a common goal, a congressional seat . . . but is that possible?
About the Author:
Praying her story gives God glory, award-winning, best-selling author Caryl McAdoo loves revisiting beloved characters in her novels. And her readers are glad she does! She’s blessed that her titles earned over fifty-percent 5-Star ratings and eighty-five to ninety percent 4 & 5-Stars! With forty-four novels (thirty-four in the last four-and-a-half years), it’s obvious she loves writing, but singing the new songs the Lord gives her also rates high. (Listen to a few at YouTube.)
Married to Ron, her high school sweetheart, she counts their four children and eighteen grandsugars life’s best blessings. The McAdoos live in the woods south of Clarksville, seat of Red River County in far Northeast Texas, waiting expectantly for God to open the next door.
More from Caryl:
I totally enjoy revisiting characters from previous stories! That’s one reason I love writing ‘Family Sagas” like the Texas Romances that has ten full length novels and Cross Timbers Romances with two books and counting! The third launches this coming September.
In BIPARTISAN LOVE, we get to spend time again with the Buckmeyers—Travis and Emma Lee from Texas Romance Book Ten CHIEF OF SINNERS. My heart could barely leave these dear people after book ten, so I’ve written a few “Companion Books” (five and counting 😊) that go with the Texas Romance series—either going back to meet ancestors or forward for their descendants or just more stories with the characters you already love.
Readers first met Cody Buckmeyer and his kissing cousin (by marriage) best friend Cynthia Kramer as pre-teens in SON OF PROMISE. In that story, Emma Lee, so longing to be a mom, gets her heart’s desire in Cody, her husband’s son she’s never known about. The two youngsters became fast friends, but Cindy went overseas when LBJ gave her father an ambassadorship.
It’s been eighteen years, and Cody’s engaged to another. After her letters stopped, he gave up all hope. A liberal Democrat, Cynthia comes home after working in Hubert Humphries’ losing bid for the presidency, and wants Cody, a conservative Republican, to run for a Congressional seat with her as his campaign manager!
How’s this supposed to work?
Blog Stops:
Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, June 24
Godly Book Reviews, June 25
Simple Harvest Reads, June 26 (Spotlight)
For Him and My Family, June 27
Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, June 28
Connect in Fiction, June 29
Power of Words, June 30 (Spotlight)
Abba’s Prayer Warrior Princess, July 1
Just the Write Escape, July 2
Texas Book-aholic, July 3
Artistic Nobody, July 4 (Spotlight)
janicesbookreviews, July 5
A Reader’s Brain, July 6
Inklings and notions, July 7
Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Caryl is giving away
Grand Prize – $50 Gift Amazon Card
1st Prize – Signed, Paperback copy of CHOICE of all my books
2nd Prize – Signed copy of Bipartisan Love
3rd Prize – eBook copy of Bipartisan Love
and
4th Prize – eBook copy of CHOICE of all my books!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter. https://promosimple.com/ps/e4f6/bipartisan-love-celebration-tour-giveaway
I liked the review.
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Hello again, Rita! So glad to see you here! It was a GREAT review that gave me glory bump! 🙂 BLESSINGS!
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Thank you. Hope you read and enjoy the book!
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Thank you for your thoughts. I so agree that she is an author and storyteller extraordinaire. I just love her books and I am sure I will love this one also
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Hi Lori, I think you will really enjoy it.
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Awww, thank you, Lori! I’m so glad you came by on my blog tour! Celebrate Lit is tops! Hugs and BLESSINGS!
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Caryl McAdoo is an exceptional author! Thank you for being part of the tour.
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Nyla Kay, I want to thank you for that awesome review! I’m so thrilled you enjoyed the story. It was a lot different from what I’ve written before so . . . the author never knows how a different book will be received! 🙂
Publishers consider anything “Historical” back to the Vietnam War! I KNOW! I was a teenager then and now they say I’m historic? GLORY!
LOVE and HUGS and BLESSINGS!
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Caryl, it was my pleasure. This was a great book!!
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For me, Bobby Kennedy’s assassination is a historical event–it happened a few years before I was born! This sounds interesting.
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Hi Emma! Point taken. Yes, it is a good book.
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Thank you so much for taking time to bring to our attention another great read. I enjoy these tours and finding out about many terrific books.
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Sounds like another Caryl winner! Sorry I missed out on the tour..
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Great review. This sounds like an amazing read. I haven’t read much from this time period but I am looking forward to it.
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This book sounds like a fantastic read.
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