Make You Feel My Love

 

The title of this book puts an earworm in my head, so I look it up and it's a Bob Dylan song from 1997, and the song encapsulates the basics of Robin Lee Hatcher's plot. 

Chelsea needs to escape a bad relationship and her timing couldn't be better because her great-aunt needs some help to recover from a fall. So Chelsea ends up in Chickadee Creek, Idaho, to help Rosemary get back on her feet.  

Liam recently lost his younger brother to cancer and needs to hide from the glitz and glam of Hollywood to mourn his loss.  Chickadee Creek offers him the refuge he needs to get away from all that his life in Hollywood entails. 

While Chelsea is helping Rosemary clean up her antique shop, she comes across a violin, something she always wanted to learn.  Rosemary gives the violin to her, but she finds out that the instrument is worth far more than she ever imagined and it once belonged to Liam's great-great grand mother, Cora.  

Chelsea takes the violin to Liam, but instead of wanting it for himself, he gives the instrument to Chelsea for her own use.  The more Chelsea and Liam are around each other, the more they begin to like each other.  Chelsea has her own dark secrets that she has to overcome to grow in her relationship with Liam.  Both Rosemary and Liam help Chelsea with battling her fears and growing her faith.  

I have been familiar with Robin's writings for many years.  She wrote for the secular market before she started writing for the Christian market and I saw many of her books in the bookstore where I worked for over fifteen years. The quality of her writing has not changed, just the focus.  I appreciate the way Robin has worked growing faith into her novels and she even used my favorite verse in this one. 😊

Robin tells Chelsea's and Liam's stories along with the history of the town of Chickadee Creek and Liam's forebears in this book.  It takes a while for the two plots to merge together but each story is a fascination in and of itself.  This is a solid four star book that is great to read on a rainy day, curled up with a blanket and a cup of hot tea by your side.

Thomas Nelson and NetGalley.com provided the copy I read for this review.  All opinions expressed are solely my own.