When the novel’s protagonist, Ellie, comes to terms with the situation, she doesn’t try to be stoic or hide behind her religion and try to pretend everything is ‘ok’. It dealt with serious issues in an open, unbiased and real way that made me actually willing to give the genre another try. I don’t read a lot of Christian novels since most of them are usually written by pious individuals who believe in legalistic ideals but “Worth the Wait” was nothing like that. She begins to question why God would throw all these trials her way after she’d obeyed all His instructions and what exactly it means to be herself and not somebody’s shadow or the symbol of perfection. Ellie is thrown into a mixture of emotions when she discovers that Dylan, her long-time boyfriend, cheats on her, her mother gets diagnosed with cancer and her perfect world seems to be falling apart. What could possibly go wrong?Īpparently, everything. And she does everything she’s told to do. Her family is a God-fearing set of individuals and loving in every way. She’s got a boyfriend she’s known all her life and intends to marry. She’s one of the most popular girls at school. Ellie is a girl who strives to be perfect.
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