FireFlies in December

Book numero tres (3) completed for the summer. I read Fireflies in December written by Jennifer Erin Valent. I have to say the theme of the book was good, but other than that I wasn't a big fan. It was slow, but I got so far into it I decided to finish it. It was an easy read. 


Below is a description, if you think it sounds good then go for it, but I don't plan to read the next book...


Little does anyone realize that simple Christian charity will inflame the bigots and hatemongers in this small Virginia town. Escalating episodes of horrific violence ensue, including sexual attacks directed at 13-year-old Jessilyn Lassiter, the novel’s narrator, after her white family takes in her black best friend, Gemma, when she is orphaned by a tragic fire. Winner of the Christian Writers Guild’s 2007 Operation First Novel contest, Valent has created a darkly evocative historical novel that boldly explores the divisive effects of unreasoning hatred, greed, and fear on a community already struggling with the economic and racial tensions caused by the Depression and exacerbated by the Ku Klux Klan. As these forces impact one family, childhood innocence is lost, but Valent’s characters also experience the affirmation of a deeper, more lasting faith. --Lynne Welch
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