By Your Side by Candace Calvert Review

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I hope you're all having a great week.

I recently finished the first book in Candace Calvert's Crisis Team series, and I couldn't wait to review it for you all.

By Your Side by Candace Calvert:

Source: Church Library

Publisher: Tyndale House

Publication Date: March 1st, 2015

Genre: Inspirational Fiction/Medical Drama

Series: Crisis Team

Synopsis:

ER nurse Macy Wynn learned essential, gritty lessons in the California foster care system: land on your feet and trust no one. She’s finally located the fellow foster child she loves like a sister, but the girl’s in deep trouble. Macy’s determined to help, no matter what it takes. Her motto is to “make it happen” in any situation life throws at her—even when she butts heads with an idealistic cop.

Deputy Fletcher Holt believes in a higher plan, the fair outcome—and his ability to handle that by himself if necessary. Now he’s been yanked from Houston, his mother is battling cancer, and he’s attracted to a strong-willed nurse who could be the target of a brutal sniper.

When everything goes wrong, where do they put their trust?

******synopsis from goodreads*****

My Review:

I'm so glad that I've discovered Candace Calvert's books as I've really come to appreciate the way she can write a clean, faith based drama with lots of action, heart ache, and real characters that keep you connected to the story right from the the opening pages.

Fletcher is a deputy who's recently transferred to California from his home state of Texas in order to help look after his mother who's fighting cancer. A too close too call incident with a sniper on the freeway connects him with ER nurse Macy Wynn who's learned some hard lessons throughout her life, and is hesitant to let anyone else in.

Anytime you pick up a Candace Calvert novel you can count on the character's facing struggles and trials, and having to come to terms with God's place in their lives before progress can be made, and that's definitely the case in By Your Side. Macy and Fletcher are both struggling with the terrors they've seen in their lives, and are struggling to figure out where is God in all the negativity? Macy is hesitant to trust anyone besides herself, but Fletcher is determine to be there for her, especially with a sniper on the loose who just may stop at nothing to get what he wants.

Once again Candace Calvert has written a beautiful novel about redemption, healing, second chances, and God's healing hand, and I really found myself enjoying this one. While I never really thought that medical dramas were my thing before picking up her books, I really enjoy in her novels just how real the medical setting comes off on the pages, and this one in particular had me on the edge of my seat waiting to find out what was going to happen with the sniper situation.

One particular reason that makes Candace's books stand out is that she chooses to write Christian fiction that's not about perfect characters, and this is something I really appreciate when Christian authors are willing to do. I love when Christian books feature plots that don't all come together easily, and Candace Calvert is definitely a mastermind with this.

All in all, this one was a definite winner for me, and I'm very much looking forward to reading the next book in the series.

Final Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thanks so much for reading guys! Have a great rest of your day, and I look forward to sharing more reviews with you in the near future.

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