Author: Christa Allan
Title: Walking on Broken Glass
Description: Leah
deals with her dysfunctional marriage and the loss of her baby by drinking. At
the opening of this novel, she decides that she can’t spend the rest of her
life drunk, and she makes the decision to check herself into a rehab center.
This book centers on Leah’s rehab program and what happens when she returns
home.
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Plot: Nothing is
contrived or easy here. Leah’s relationship with her husband is teetering on
the brink of divorce. Her rehabilitation isn’t pretty or effortless. This is a
Christian novel in that Leah takes finding her higher power seriously, although
the author doesn’t make Leah’s embrace of Christianity easy either.
Characters: Leah,
her husband, and her best friend are the main characters, and they and the
supporting characters are all real people with good and bad qualities who do
good things and who also turn around and fail once in a while.
Writing style: Told
in brutally honest first person.
Audience: Certainly
anyone who is struggling with substance abuse—or with the death of a child or
another tragedy—would empathize with Leah. Chick lit readers in general would
probably enjoy this well-written book, if they didn’t mind the spiritual
content.
Wrap-up: This
isn’t the type of book I normally read, but I was engaged from the outset with
Leah’s struggle to turn her life around. 3.5/5*
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