One Last Thing

One Last Thing is written entirely in first person point of view from Tara's viewpoint. This normally only works for complex characters, and Tara wasn't complex, at least not in the beginning. She was the perfect pampered Southern princess, and while she hasn't lived an entirely sheltered life, her family is financially stable and she's always been given the best of everything. She attends church with her family, but there was little indication she had any personal faith: something that's normally a must in Christian romance. \\r\\n\\r\\nTara slowly discovers Seth's issues, and strangely, this allows us to move from repugnance to sympathy for his problems while still acknowledging Tara did the right thing. Seth acknowledges that he has to take responsibility for his own actions, especially when they have hurt others, and I see this as a positive thing. \\r\\n\\r\\nPublisher Thomas Nelson has caught some criticism recently for publishing books with inappropriate content for a Christian novel. I suspect they'll catch a little more over One Last Thing, from people who would like to believe this kind of thing never happens to """"proper"""" Christians. I wish it didn't, but it does, and One Last Thing does an excellent job in sensitively fictionalising a growing problem in society. It's not easy reading, and it's not nice. But it is real. Unfortunately. \\r\\n\\r\\nThanks to Thomas Nelson and NetGalley for providing a free ebook for