Review: Smoke Screen - Terri Blackstock

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Smoke Screen

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.

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