Great series | Drenched in Light (Tending Roses Series #4)

Drenched in Light, Lisa Wingate | Drenched in Light (Tending Roses Series #4) | Lisa Wingate

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	• Drenched in Light (Tending Roses Series #4) Lisa Wingate NAL Trade, 2006 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Thousand Voices

This is a very well written story and compliments the first four in this series.

Great series

This whole series is heartwarming (though sentimental and predictable, which is sometimes okay, right?). Read and enjoy.

Drenched in Light, Lisa Wingate

Excellent buy, Lisa Wingate is a great author. The book came at delivery time estimated and in the condition agreed so I'm very happy w/ the buy.

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Great quick read in the Tending Roses Series

The story of Julia and continuation in the life of Dell was a great read. Although sometimes predictable, the characters are so well developed you feel you know them personally. The challenges they face are common to many in todays society. It is refreshing to read novels that are uplifting. I have enjoyed every book in this series. Each novel stands alone, in fact I read the last not knowing there were others. I then went back to read all of the Tending Roses series. I wish Lisa Wingate would write another about Dell's life after she finds her father.

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4th in the series

Drenched in Light is the 4th book in the Tending Roses series. I haven't read Tending Roses (Tending Roses Series, Book 1); I liked Good Hope Road (Tending Roses Series, Book 2) very much; didn't like The Language of Sycamores (Tending Roses, Book 3); and really liked this one. Perhaps the difference is that Good Hope Road and Drenched in Light are more about beginnings.

Julia is working as a guidance counselor in a performing arts middle school, after years of eating disorders destroyed her career as a dancer. She's been coasting along, mourning her lost career and chafing against her parents' solicitude--feeling sorry for herself, in short. Then her sister gets pregnant, accelerating her wedding plans; a young girl (Dell, from the previous books) who's a gifted musician is failing her classes and the administration wants her out of the school--not least because she's not "the right sort"; and it becomes more and more obvious that there's a drug problem in the school that everyone is denying.

All those things make Julia focus on someone other than herself and her own problems, and she ends up discovering passion and drive for something besides dance. Especially important was that she took responsibility for her actions and decisions, both in the present and in the past.

The feeling of hope at the end of Drenched in Light is, I think, what women's fiction books in general are aiming for.

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Deep in my heart, a part of me will always be barefoot, running through the shallows of Mulberry Creek, with my eyes closed and my arms stretched out like I could fly.

Once a gifted ballet dancer, Julia Costell understands the joy of body and soul lost in a perfect moment. But after buckling under the demands of a professional dance career, she's landed with a thud as a guidance counselor at a performing arts high school. Living with her parents and feeling lost, Julia is afraid she'll never soar again. Until the day young Dell Jordan is sent to her office.

In Dell's writing, Julia recognizes not only her own despair, but also luminous sparks of hope. But as Julia fi ghts to forge a brighter future for one disadvantaged student, she is drawn into startling undercurrents of conflict and denial within the academy. Only then does she begin to discover where real meaning and fulfillment lie, and realize that even though her life has seemed off course, she's been on the right path all along.

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