This is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. It's the first Inspirational genre book I have ever picked up and I'll admit that at first I was uncertain. And, it has become the first book to make me cry--not get weepy or misty, but CRY. For that, I can't forgive the author, Hallie Lee. :0)
I almost can't even talk about this book because it has left me emotional and has resonated so deeply with me. It was as if the author was inside my head pulling out my childhood, my memories, and those fraught, endearing, complicated relationships of a time and people gone by.
In short, Paint Me Fearless is a saga that follows two girls, Robin and Desi, through their high school years and into their middle-aged years. It encompasses their families and friends, dives into their struggles with faith, their insecurities, and their challenges with life and things that test their friendship.
At its core, the story reveals how our childish hopes and dreams become something different as we grow and shows how sometimes the things we think we want the most are shallow at best, and monsters at worst. That we so often spend our one precious and valuable life focused on things that, in the end, don't matter at all while we take for granted the things that really matter. It reveals how we humans are so short-sighted in what we consider important.
The writing was beautiful without pretension, the characters wonderfully drawn, the voice and pace engaging and the story was filled with so much heart and depth and humanity. I found myself unwilling to put the book down and eager to return to Robin and Desi's world. I still find myself wondering how the author was able to pack so much information, such complicated relationships and lives into only 309 pages. I'm humbled and impressed and a bit envious that I didn't write this book. It was just a lovely, dramatic, sometimes gritty (life is gritty), ultimately uplifting story.
Paint Me Fearless hit me on a level I certainly didn't expect. I'm so glad I read it and am looking forward to the rest of the series. Lee has won a loyal reader for life.
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Absolutely loved this book and can’t wait till book 2 comes out. I felt a connection with the characters and could not put the book down!
