Review: Smoke Screen - Terri Blackstock
Review: Smoke Screen - Terri Blackstock - November 2019
One of my favorite subgenres is Edgy
Christian Fiction and lately, I have wanted to get back into enjoying Christian
fiction authors Terri Blackstock has been one that I haven't read in years.
Smoke Screen was available on the Libby library app as I was scrolling through
to check which titles jumped out at me. In Smoke Screen we meet Breanna who was
formerly married to a politician who decided to divorce her and marry someone
younger and arm candy and of course since his father likes to control the
narrative - he has made sure that Jack is going for full custody of his and
Breanna's children. I hated the character of William who is Jack's father, he was
one of those elite arrogant pricks. You know the type that wants everyone to
bend to their knee and think he is above everyone else. However, near the end
of the book, we will learn that William has a deeper set of anger towards
Breanna and it has more to do with who her family is than her as a person.
Breanna has been taking the custody battle hard and started drinking, what
happens though when things look bleak for her future? Will she turn back to the
God who she had so much faith in when she was a teenager as she grew up as a
preacher's daughter?
Nate Beckett has spent his life-fighting fires which is ironic since everyone
blamed him for burning down Breanna's fathers' church after his dad was
convicted of killing Breanna's dad. Now 14 years later, the three of them Nate,
Breanna, and his Dad are all in the same place at the same time and going
through their own set of dramas. Both Nate and his dad have always maintained
that they were innocent and now both of them will do their research and
discover the truth about what happened fourteen years ago in doing so, Breanna
whose first love was always Nate will reunite and he may be the very person she
needs to save herself from destruction and losing her kids forever as we see
near the end that most of the dots start connecting and what is happening now
is connected to that fateful night when the Reverand died.
As this is written by a Christian author, the book falls under Edgy Christian
Fiction as it does focus on prison, divorce, custody battles, arson, and
alcoholism with a sprinkle of faith and hope and bible verse throughout the
story as we all know that the faith of a single small mustard seed can move the
biggest of mountains - this is one of my favorite verses in the bible and
something I try so hard to live in my everyday life.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3gckPpi
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