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    Someone to Watch Over Me
    Someone to Watch Over Me
    Someone to Watch Over Me
    Audiobook9 hours

    Someone to Watch Over Me

    Written by Michelle Stimpson

    Narrated by Jennifer Kidwell

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    About this audiobook

    Essence best-selling author Michelle Stimpson delivers a stirring tale about learning to appreciate life by slowing down. Tori Henderson's marketing career in Houston is on the fast track. But when her aunt falls ill, Tori returns to her tiny hometown to provide care-and ends up reconnecting with an old crush. "Stimpson describes her settings and multidimensional characters to perfection [and] readers will deeply identify with Tori's struggles to balance her family, finances, and feelings."-Publishers Weekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 12, 2011
    ISBN9781501992902
    Someone to Watch Over Me
    Author

    Michelle Stimpson

    Michelle Stimpson is an educational consultant who lives outside Dallas with her husband and two children. She has also served as part of the writing and editing team of Heartbeat magazine, a publication of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas.

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    • 3/5
      After an emergency surgery and several lonely days in the hospital, Tori Henderson has a new view on life. Her boyfriend's lack of affection and her co-workers' lack of sensitivity leave Tori seeking the one source of unconditional love that she has ever known – her Aunt Dottie. To her surprise and dismay, Aunt Dottie has fallen ill. Tori immediately travels to the small town of Bayford to care for her aunt and, at Dottie's request, relunctantly agrees to temporarily take over Dottie's struggling business. Balancing the business and trying to telecommute for her job in Houston proves difficult. Add in supervising her step-cousin, DeAndre, and a budding romance with a former crush and Tori has her hands full. When things seem overwhelming, Tori is faced with a choice. Will she accept the unconditional love offered by God? Can she trust him to guide her and work all things for her good? Or will she leave behind the small-town life in pursuit of big city promises?The characters of Someone to Watch Over Me by Michelle Stimpson were unique and well-developed. Tori's spiritual development and personal progress felt authentic. I appreciated the theme about unconditional love. Stimpson masterfully demonstrated that when we receive unconditional love from God, we are able to extend that love to others who will be drawn to the acceptance associated with love. Unfortunately, I felt like detailed foreplay between Tori and her boyfriend was inappropriate and unnecessary as it did not contribute to the story. In addition to that, I don't think a book that is marketed as Christian fiction should show the top part of the character's breasts on the front cover.Someone to Watch Over Me has a beautiful message about unconditional love, but should be read with discretion and may not be appropriate for younger readers.Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Kensington Publishers via FIRST Wild Card Blog Tours. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."
    • 2/5
      I was sorely disappointed with Someone to Watch Over Me. It's synopsis made it sound like a promising read, but I couldn't wait to finish reading it and get on to the next book. Don't get me wrong. I did not spot any grammar or punctuation errors and most of the characters had rounded personalities. But, the plot was too systematic and I did not like that. There were no surprises and twists in the story. I could easily guess how everything would turn out. This bored me very quickly.This book was written in casual English and there were a number of colloquial expression. I thought that the colloquial expression, "rocket science", was used way too often. The fact that I did not understand what it meant and had to Google to find out did not help matters. Another expression, "having a cow", was also used and I wondered why was it wrong to rear a cow. Maybe these expressions are familiar to people in certain circles, but as an international reader, I had trouble understanding them.Overall, Someone to Watch Over Me might possibly make an interesting read for those who prefer stories that doesn't stimulate the mind, but as a reader who likes thrilling stories, I got tired of it very quickly.