Lookin' Back, Texas
Written by Leanna Ellis
Narrated by Pam Turlow
3/5
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Leanna Ellis
Leanna Ellis sold more than 1.3 million romantic novels writing as Leanna Wilson, winning a Readers' Choice award and the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart award for her work. Elvis Takes a Back Seat is the first book published under her married name, marking a new creative direction in her writing. Like Francine Rivers before her, Leanna has left behind a successful career as an author of secular romances to write novels of faith that glorify God. A former schoolteacher, Leanna is now a homeschool mom and lives with her husband and children in Keller, Texas.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I didn't realize that this was christian fiction when i requested it on early reviewers, so I was slightly worried that it would be too preachy for me. This turned out not to be the case at all, since Ellis doesn't make God something to be pushed on her reader.However, the book wasn't all I hoped it would be. I felt that often scenes would repeat, with only minor variations. Also, most of the characters came off a bit flat. Betty Lynne is supposed to be a very layered woman, but through most of the novel she is just vicious, so by the time I learned about her sensitive side I no longer cared. MIke is fantastic, but becomes uncharacteristically blunt and whiny when his mother's abandonment is brought up.This is not to say I totally disliked the book. The plot line was interesting and I appreciated how the characters problems and signs to change steadily piled up until they each learned the lesson that their lives needed. Overall, I what I liked about the novel is the part that runs deep and what I disliked is a part that can be fixed with editing without tossing the whole thing.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A strange book. Susannah has recieved a call from her father saying her mother has gone crazy-again. The connection is so bad that Susannah cannot hear everything her father has to say so she decides to drive home to Texas, a place she has been able to avoid for several years. When she arrives home to find her mother planning her father's funeral, she worries that her mother has actually gone off the deep end and killed her father. When she discovers that her father is alive and has left her mother and that, to save face, her mother has told the community that her husband has died, she knows her mother is nuts.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was just an ok book. The storyline was interesting and the characters were funny. I'd like to read more by this author.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It took me very long to actually get into "Lookin' Back, Texas", and even when I did I couldn't get a real feel for the characters. They felt underdeveloped, flat. Like some others, I didn't realize this was a Christian Fiction book on the ER list, but it wasn't something that was shoved down the reader's throats. Over all, it just felt lacking.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Lookin' Back, Texas is the story of a family that copes with a secret by creating lies. Suzanne returns to her childhood home to reconcile the differences between her parents - only to find that her mother has told the town that her father had died. However, her father is not dead - he had left, alive and well. I never was able to fully get into this book. I found that none of the characters were realistic, relatable or even likable. This would perhaps be a good read for young adults, as the writing is not very descriptive and it is mostly dialogue.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Suzanne Mullins is called back to her home in Texas to help her parents with their troubled marriage. She finds she must also look at her own marriage. I also received this book through Early Reviewers and have not read much Christian fiction. I enjoyed the book and loved Suzanne's mother, Betty Lynne.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I was grateful to have received Lookin' Back Texas by Leanna Ellis from the Early Reviewer program at Library Thing. From the back of the book: Betty Lynne Davidson is planning her husband’s funeral while overlooking one thing: he’s not dead.When Suzanne Mullins, forty-two, gets the call from her father to come back home to Texas because her mother has gone off the deep end, she knows it will mean having to look at the faulty foundations of their marriage as well as her own. Betty Lynne has always upheld a perfect facade of home and family, and Suzanne has followed suit. But her life with husband Mike and son Oliver is cracking under the pressure of its own unspoken history.Looking her past in the eye once and for all, Suzanne hopes that trusting in God’s love and mercy will set all of this craziness straight—even if it does mean having to watch her father give the eulogy at his own funeral.My thoughts and reaction to this book are varied. I felt some of the situations were very contrived and did not feel remotely real. But some - including the non-dead husband's funeral planning - were quite funny and I could easily imagine it. The writing style took a while to get used to, but eventually I was able to lose myself in the book. The main characters - Suzanne, her mother Betty and her husband Mike - were fairly well developed. I did get involved in their lives and got emotional a few times for them. However some of the other characters and their reactions left me feeling like I was missing a big part of their personality, they were very flat when they could have been quite colorful. Overall, I enjoyed this book. I think it was a good story and am glad I got a chance to read it.