 | Sunset (Sunrise Series-Baxter 3, Book 4)
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 2008-10-30 - A Fitting Goodbye to the Baxters
Like many, I have followed the Baxter family from their beginnings in Karen Kingsbury's Redemption series. I fell in love with them and with Karen's writing style. Sunset is the last of her books with the Baxters as the central characters and it did not disappoint. True to her style Karen Kingsbury made me laugh and cry and cheer before I closed the cover.
One of the things I love about her style of writing is that she has brought to life characters who reflect real life. She uses everyday situations, many that we all face or know people who have faced them, and she shows us how we can live and love and sometimes suffer with grace because of God in us, showing us how to live. She doesn't back away from the important truth that to live in victory we need the Lord in our lives.
In Sunset she brings resolution to volumes of storylines that I felt I lived through with good friends. It wasn't totally predictable, but then again, the parts that are somewhat predictable I feel are in a good way, because they show us what is right, what should happen in a family like this. It gives me hope for my own family and a sense that at least in one corner of a fictional world there are answers and there is hope that a family can live through difficult, trying situations and come out loving one another and doing what is right. There is also hope for individuals who have 'messed up' and have to face their failings and learn to rise above them. I recommend this book, but please don't start here. Meet the Baxters from the beginning, but don't miss this wonderful ending.
 2008-10-27 - Sunset
Karen Kingsbury again does a wonderful job bringing us into the lives of the Baxter family. If you have read the whole series, you might feel like you know the characters in the book better than you know your own family. Knowing that this is the last book in the series is a little sad since we don't know what will happen to them exept though the Baxter's being mentioned in the background of her next series. I was thrilled with the ending, it seemed fitting for all that the family had been through. It seems as the the S series wrapped up we were more focused on the lives of Ashley and Dayne, where as I would have liked to have gotten to know Erin and Brooke's families a little more. Overall, any Kingsbury book is a winner with me, she strengthens my faith even more in a higher power!
2008-10-24 - Sunset
This was another great book by Karen Kingsbury. The Baxter clan comes through many difficult situations with the grace that only comes from God.
2008-10-24 - Sunset...wonderful end of the journey
This final book, Sunset, in the series by Karen Kingsbury brought the family issues to resolution and satisfied the "what's coming next?" questions the author so skillfully builds into her work. I enjoyed all three series dealing with the Baxter family, and I am already looking forward to reading more of Kingsbury's work!
2008-10-24 - Sunset - Baxter Series 3, Book 4
My wife dug into this book this week and loves it. She finished book 3 and pleaded with me to get her the next book (which I had bought her for Christmas). Oh well, there is always Book 5!
This is really a great series that my wife is wholy into lock, stock and barrel. Karen, you have another fan!
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