Finding Contentment

Book Review: Sweet Caroline

I loved this book! It's not always easy to tell a real Christian from someone who makes you think they are a Christian - or at least has Christian values - and this book illustrates that fact. And although the ending was wrapped up tightly, I was suprised that I still liked the ending. Things can still work out great even if they don't work out like you expected.

When a Southern waitress inherits the Lowcountry cafe where she works, she suddenly has to balance more than just her next food order.

Caroline Sweeney has always done the right thing--the responsible, dependable thing--unlike her mother who abandoned her family. But when her best friend challenges her to accept an exciting job adventure in Barcelona, Spain, Caroline says "yes" to destiny.

Then, without warning, ownership of the run-down cafe where she's been waitressing falls right into Caroline's lap. While she's trying to determine the cafe's future, handsome Deputy Sherriff J.D. Rand captures Caroline's heart.

But when her first love, Mitch O'Neal, comes back to town, fresh from the heat of his newly-found fame as a country music singer in Nashville, Caroline must make some hard choices about love and the pursuit of the sweet life.