Sunday, May 26, 2013

The Offering By Angela Hunt GIVEAWAY!





One innocent mistake . . . a lifetime of consequences.
After growing up an only child, Amanda Lisandra wants a big family. But since she and her soldier husband can’t afford to have more children right away, Mandy decides to earn money as a gestational carrier for a childless couple. She loves being pregnant, and while carrying the child, she dreams of having her own son and maybe another daughter. . . .
Just when the nearly perfect pregnancy is about to conclude, unexpected tragedy enters Mandy’s world and leaves her reeling. Devastated by grief, she surrenders the child she was carrying and struggles to regain her emotional equilibrium.
Two years later she studies a photograph of the baby she bore and wonders if the unthinkable has happened—could she have inadvertently given away her own biological child? Over the next few months Mandy struggles to decide between the desires of her grief-stricken heart and what’s best for the little boy she has never known.
 
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With more than four million copies of her books sold worldwide, Angela Hunt is the bestselling author of more than one hundred titles, including The Tale of Three Trees, The Note, and The Nativity Story. Her nonfiction book Don’t Bet Against Me, written with Deanna Favre, spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Angela frequently teaches writing workshops at schools and writers’ conferences, and she served as the keynote speaker at an American Christian Fiction Writers’ national conference. She and her husband make their home in Florida.

Well let me start by saying I love Angela's books, my favorite being The Note.
This one was true to Angela form, it is a book you can not put down.
I had a very hard time with the decision Mandy had to make towards the end of the book, I have thought about it many times since I have finished the  book and it is NOT one that I would have or could have made that is for sure.
I hope that you if you buy a copy of this book and read and enjoy it as I did you will let me know if you would have made the same very hard decision that Mandy made.
I recommend this book.
I gave the book 4 stars.
I was given a copy of this book by the publisher for my honest review.  

15 comments:

  1. I loved the movie and the book book The Note. I am very happy that you told us about this book. I will have to go get a copy right away! Thanks Mary.

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  2. Love Angela Hunt's book's !!! This sounds lie a AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME read .Blessings ,Dana "Girl"

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  3. This is on my list to read this summer, I am so glad that you reviewed and said it was one to read.

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  4. I love her books! Thanks for the review Mary, I definitely want to read this one!

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    1. Shinyhalo, you are the WINNER! I will get your book right out to you! Congrats!

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  5. Books sounds great would love to read and then leave a review.
    Blessings
    joeym11@frontier.com

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  6. I haven't read anything by this author. "The Offering" sounds like a great book to read! Just by reading the excerpt and your review, I know this one is a real tear jerker! Thanks for your review and giveaway!

    Blessings!
    Judy B

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  7. New author to me, but this book sounds like an emotional roller coaster. Thanks for a great review!

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  8. Nancee and Judy have you seen the movie The Note or The Note 2? This is the author of that book and movie!
    There is also a Note 3 now!

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  9. This book sounds very good sure hope i can win it
    jcisforme@aol.com

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  10. .
    Hi Mary. Very good review. I saw the Note, but didn't know there was a 2 and 3. I would so love to read this book. Please put my name in. (you can draw it too, if you want to). LOL
    Maxie mac262(at)me(dot)com

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  11. I have not read any books by this author yet but with the review you gave,Mary, I do want to read to find out the decision.

    Thanks

    Cathy Weber
    Cdweber20@hotmail.com

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  12. I haven't read any of her books. But it definitely sounds as though I might want to before long!

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  13. I reviewed this book, too. Perhaps it's because I myself am childless and I have many friends who have adopted, but Mandy made the decision I wanted her to make, and it's the decision that I'd like to think that I would make. Interesting how we bring our own perspectives into our feelings about novels like this!

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