Human beings love to be loved. And we love to fall in love. As children we pour our love into our pets and our friends. As teenagers we fall in love with musicians and actors and the boy whose locker is next to ours. As we mature, we long for romantic love that will last a lifetime. Sacrificial love, unexplainable love, familial love, desperate love. Love songs and love stories. Clearly we were … were created with the longing for love ingrained in our souls.
With lots of wit and a bit of wisdom drawn from a lifetime of falling in love, Lincee Ray invites you to an unabashed celebration of that loving feeling. As she reveals the loves of her life and encourages you to recall your own, you’ll discover alongside her that there is only one who can ever truly fulfill the deepest longings of our hearts. And he made us to be part of a divine love story.
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Lincee hits it out of the park again. This book is sweet, hilarious, and touching. You’ll laugh, cry, and want to be best friends with Lincee by the end!
“Our need to feel loved is ingrained in our souls. It’s been that way since the beginning.”
In this new book from Lincee Ray we are reminded about the different kinds of love. There is love for our animals, love for our parents, love for our friends, love for our children and of course romantic love. The author is very funny but she also has a knack for getting to the heart of the matter and she uses pop culture as a way of illustrating her points. I enjoyed her references to the 80s and 90s and I knew about the movie Dirty Dancing and Bonnie Raitt’s Total Eclipse of the Heart but I was born in an earlier generation so I found myself thinking about the Beach Party movies with Frankie and Annette and Unchained Melody from the Righteous Brothers and recalling the emotions associated with each of them.
Yes, there is a lot of humor in It’s A Love Story and I often found myself laughing out loud while reading this book but the author also makes some powerful observations and she liberally uses God’s Word as she talks about her faith. In the conclusion Ray reminds us of the ultimate love story. God “wanted to show the quintessential act of love. So He sacrificed His Son”.
If you enjoy a book with humor you will want to read It’s A Love Story but if you want both a fun and a thought-provoking book, you MUST read It’s A Love Story!
I received a complimentary copy from the author and Revell Publishing and these thoughts are my own.
SUPERB!
I had never even heard of Lincee Ray until a few weeks ago. I know – I live under a rock or something, right? I can relate to her storytelling on so many levels! It’s A Love Story From Happily to Ever After is the type of book that grabs you from the first paragraph and won’t let you’ve read the last sentence. Trust me, you’ll really want to read it in one sitting, too! Ray is relatable and an excellent storyteller. You will feel as though you’re sitting on your couch talking to your best friend! I kept wanting to pick up the phone and call her and discuss certain points in the book! She writes on subjects that matter to all of us and here are some examples – Fur and Feathers (Animal Love), Young Love, Love Beyond the US Border, Fake Vision of Love, ‘Tis the Season, The Soundtrack of My Life, You’ve Got a Friend in Me and my personal favorite, Mary, Did you Know? She’ll having you laughing and crying because she’s hysterical and because you just might see yourself somewhere on these pages!
As Ray tells you her own personal Love Story, she encourages each reader to recognize their own Love Story – the people and the places that are the pillars where the reader feels safe. Where the reader’s heart is known without having to say a word and a place where their heart feels at peace when they’re there.
While she writes with a great deal of humor, Ray always brings you back to the main thing and that is the BEST Love Story in everyone’s life:
“When I feel adrift, unchosen, without a rose or a fairy-tale ending, I’m reminded of a deeper truth: God is my portion forever. Although my flesh and heart may fail, He is my strength. Psalm 73 gives me the assurance that I am enough. He chose me. He loves me. … I hear the lyrics of love in this psalm of acceptance, and my heart beats to the rhythm of being in sync with someone who totally gets me.”
I was provided an ARC of this book by Revell and NetGalley. The opinions expressed here are completely my own and without influence.