**For so long, Stella was known for her beauty. Now, with her heart stripped bare, she must discover who she really is.** Former pageant queen Stella Varland doesn?t trust beauty anymore after her divorce. Her appearance betrayed her and led to her brokenness?so instead of being beautiful, now she tries...
**For so long, Stella was known for her beauty. Now, with her heart stripped bare, she must discover who she really is.**
Former pageant queen Stella Varland doesn?t trust beauty anymore after her divorce. Her appearance betrayed her and led to her brokenness?so instead of being beautiful, now she tries to make beautiful things, but always falls short. So she keeps her passion for her secret art to herself and focuses on her interior design work. But if she doesn?t get another job soon, she'll be stuck living with her parents.
Contractor Chase Taylor is determined to live a life of no regrets after losing his fianc e in a car crash. Now he lives life at full speed, striving to see how much he can accomplish. He knows if he slows down, he'll fall apart. So he returns home to Bayou Bend to renovate the town's old theater, and is shocked to learn former flame Stella is the designer for the project.
Forced to work together, Chase and Stella battle their chemistry and their pasts as they struggle to compromise and come together on a vision for the theater. Chase doesn?t understand why Stella is such a subdued version of herself, while Stella doesn?t get Chase's constant need for productivity and speed. Their wills clash as they attempt to hide their brokenness?and their unresolved feelings for each other?until Chase breaks through Stella's walls and convinces her to enter her mosaic tile art in a contest.
A near catastrophe, a fire, and a small-town gossip mill finally force both Stella and Chase to realize that they have a choice?to hold on to the shards of their pasts, or surrender their fragmented pieces to the One who makes a beautiful masterpiece from the broken.
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**For so long, Stella was known for her beauty. Now, with her heart stripped bare, she must discover who she really is.** Former pageant queen Stella Varland doesn?t trust beauty anymore after her divorce. Her appearance betrayed her and led to her brokenness?so instead of being beautiful, now she tries...
**For so long, Stella was known for her beauty. Now, with her heart stripped bare, she must discover who she really is.**
Former pageant queen Stella Varland doesn?t trust beauty anymore after her divorce. Her appearance betrayed her and led to her brokenness?so instead of being beautiful, now she tries to make beautiful things, but always falls short. So she keeps her passion for her secret art to herself and focuses on her interior design work. But if she doesn?t get another job soon, she'll be stuck living with her parents.
Contractor Chase Taylor is determined to live a life of no regrets after losing his fianc e in a car crash. Now he lives life at full speed, striving to see how much he can accomplish. He knows if he slows down, he'll fall apart. So he returns home to Bayou Bend to renovate the town's old theater, and is shocked to learn former flame Stella is the designer for the project.
Forced to work together, Chase and Stella battle their chemistry and their pasts as they struggle to compromise and come together on a vision for the theater. Chase doesn?t understand why Stella is such a subdued version of herself, while Stella doesn?t get Chase's constant need for productivity and speed. Their wills clash as they attempt to hide their brokenness?and their unresolved feelings for each other?until Chase breaks through Stella's walls and convinces her to enter her mosaic tile art in a contest.
A near catastrophe, a fire, and a small-town gossip mill finally force both Stella and Chase to realize that they have a choice?to hold on to the shards of their pasts, or surrender their fragmented pieces to the One who makes a beautiful masterpiece from the broken.
Love Arrives in Pieces$21.99
Koorong code412218
ISBN9780310338475
Pages336
PublisherZondervan
Publication date09 June 2015
Dimensions25 x 138 x 212mm
Weight0.303kg
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Love Arrives in Pieces is the sequel to All's Fair in Love and Cupcakes, although this can easily be read as a stand-alone. I read and reviewed All's Fair in Love and Cupcakes, and while I thought it was a good story, I also thought it was too long: it felt like there was only enough plot to fill a novella, and it had been stretched to novel-length with the addition of endless interior monologue. \\r\\n\\r\\nLove Arrives in Pieces had the same problem. A conversation between the two main characters would be interrupted by a page or more of interior monologue (well, I was reading on a Kindle, so a Kindle page or more), to the point where I'd actually forgotten what the conversation was about and had to skip back to find the last line of dialogue to work it out, then skip past the interior monologue to make sense of it. Some people might like this, but I don't. I'm all for getting to know the characters through interior monologue, but not in the middle of a conversation. Keep it to a short sentence or two in dialogue so as not to disrupt the flow of the story. \\r\\n\\r\\nIt's a shame, because the dialogue was excellent (once I ignored the interior monologue), and the story dealt with some important spiritual issues. Love Arrives in Pieces had potential, but didn't deliver for me. \\r\\n\\r\\nThanks to Zondervan and NetGalley for providing a free ebook for review.
