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Showing posts with label Final Touch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Final Touch. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Final Touch by Brandilyn Collins and Amberly Collins (Book Review)

Title: Final Touch (Book 3 - The Rayne Tour series)
Authors: Brandilyn Collins and Amberly Collins
Publisher: Zondervan

My synopsis: Shaley's dad, Gary, had just recently come into her life and back into her mother, Rayne's, life.  They had fallen in love all over again and were set to be married.  On their wedding day, at a mansion surrounded with security, Shaley is kidnapped.

The kidnapper seems to be able to stay one step ahead of the police and FBI.  He has told Shaley that he is a preacher and has chosen Shaley for his wife.  He is taking her to the home of his new church in Montana.  He claims that all his actions are for God and he is going to teach Shaley the true meaning of religion.

Shaley, however, has her own personal relationship with God and her mom and dad both recently committed their lives to God also.  Shaley prays that someone will be able to find her even as both her parents and Rayne's band pray for her safe return.  Will it be enough to bring Shaley home?

My thoughts:  I enjoyed reading this YA trilogy.  Even though Shaley doesn't live the life of a typical teenager, I like the way that it shows her turning to God in all situations.  With an imperfect family, and being raised by a rock-n-roll single mom, Shaley still manages to keep God the center of her life.  Something that is hard enough to do as a "normal" teenager.  Nice trilogy for tween/teen readers.

You can read the first chapter of Always Watching, Last Breath and Final Touch, the three books in the Rayne series.

***Special thanks to Krista Ocier of Zondervan for sending me a review copy.***

Final Touch
Publisher/Publication Date: Zondervan, May 2010
ISBN: 978-0-310-71933-5
210 pages

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

First Wild Card Tour: Final Touch by Brandilyn Collins and Amberly Collins

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!

You never know when I might play a wild card on you!


Today's Wild Card authors are:


and the book:

Zondervan (May 7, 2010)
***Special thanks to Krista Ocier of Zondervan for sending me a review copy.***

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:


Brandilyn and Amberly Collins are a mother/daughter team from northern California.

Brandilyn Collins, known for her trademark Seatbelt Suspense, is the bestselling author of Violet Dawn, Coral Moon, Crimson Eve, Eyes of Elisha, and other novels.

Visit the Brandilyn's website.

Amberly Collins is a college student in Long Beach, California, majoring in marketing. She’s active in her Alphi Phi sorority and dotes on her Yorkie puppy, Bear.


Here's a video about the first book in the Rayne Series:



Product Details:

List Price: $9.99
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Zondervan (May 7, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031071933X
ISBN-13: 978-0310719335

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