Shades of Morning

Shame. Just one word with such huge implications. Shame can cripple and kill. Shame can take a life that was once whole and tear it apart.  Shame tells us lies about ourselves.

Marlo Shalesky’s new book Shades of Morning deals with this powerful and profound subject matter.  Shame.  Marnie Wittier was raised as a foster child where she never felt wanted, never fit in.  The one time she let herself love and be loved by Taylor Cole, she made the biggest mistake of her life. That mistake led to an even bigger mistake. And now she’s running from her past and the shame that haunts her.  Although she claims a relationship with God, she can’t let go of her guilt. 

Taylor, too, continues to live his life on the opposite coast haunted by the way he let Marnie down.  Until both Taylor and Marnie’s lives are changed by a special boy with Down’s syndrome, named Emmit.
The twist at the end of this book with surprise you, but also make you smile as both Marnie and Taylor realize the joy of being set free from shame through the grace of God’s forgiveness.

I enjoyed this book, but I still wish I could find a book out there that dealt with the foster care system and CPS workers fairly.  As a foster mom who works with amazing social workers it frustrates me that literally EVERY book I have ever read in the Christian market treats foster parents and CPS workers as the enemy and paints us all as greedy, evil people with an agenda. Perhaps that’s my next novel. :)

For those of you here at Fond du Lac, Shades of Morning will be on the church library bookshelves, and for anyone else interested in this book or others by Multnomah, you can check out this website: http://www.waterbrookmultnomah.com/

This book was provided for review by WaterbrookMultnomah Press