Three friends, ten resolutions, and a year full of big life changes.For Emily Fisher and her friends, New Year’s Eve has never been about more than eating cake and watching the minutes until midnight disappear. This year, though, Emily, Sara, and Melissa decide that as they approach the age of thirty, they’re going to make some bold resolutions together and see them through in the year ahead, … year ahead, never guessing how dramatically life will change for them in the process.
As the daughter of a megachurch pastor and the assistant to a sensational and exhausting wedding coordinator, Emily already has her hands full. Using the resolutions as a challenge to make life about more than being a mindless drone at work, she ventures out of her comfort zone – trying new hobbies, picking up new exercise habits, travelling abroad, helping out in new ways at church, DATING – and discovers in the process that there’s more to life than weddings and work. When her family experiences unexpected hardships, Emily is forced to re-evaluate all of her priorities, and the lessons she learns lead her to stronger faith, a new dream for her career, and a romance greater than any that she could have imagined for herself.
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I loved this story about three unmarried woman who had known each other since they were infants in the church nursery together. They remained friends through their school and college years and on into their working careers. Then on New Years Eve they celebrate together and work on their resolutions for the incoming year. But this year they want to actually keep their resolutions longer than February. They decide to start out with one resolution for each month while still keeping the ones from previous months.
Can they really do this and pull it off successfully throughout the year. When they meet next New Year’s Eve will there be big changes in their lives because they all kept their resolutions over the year?
I enjoyed the humor in this story and that most of it was written in the first person of Emily , a pastor’s daughter and professional wedding planner. The book isn’t all humor but has its share of trials as one of the ladies encounters serious family issues that changes her life and the members of her family’s life.
This book is contemporary romance and is Christian Fiction. I enjoyed it and I hope you will too. I loved the author’s style of writing. She is a new to me writer and sometimes it’s nice to get acquainted with different authors. (less)
This book is for any age.
Emily was the daughter of a megachurch pastor and a wedding coordinator. She and her two friends decided on their annual New Year’s Eve celebration that they would make 10 resolutions, one for each of the next ten months which they did. Trust me when I say, this book is so much more than this. The author brings in so many wonderful people that add so much depth to the story. There was such a blend of so many different people. There were parts that had me laughing, there was Emily’s father being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and the compassion but also it gave me a better understanding of the disease. There were also the struggles with your job and your beliefs which was so realistic and well written.
I am over twice as old as the three girls but I loved everything about this book. I could feel the compassion, the kindness, the friendships, the family dynamics and how when you chose your faith that things had a way of working out. I may be over twice as old as the three girls but I could relate to this book because even as old as I am, I still like challenging myself, and seeing how the people I come into contact with are doing, how maybe I can bring some happiness to someone. So this book is life and all it has to offer.
This was the first Jenn Faulk book that I ever read, and I think that it might be one of my favorites still. What was great is the connection to the characters. These women related to each other and supported each other. The romance that came later on was definitely a fun one! I liked the fact that they were friends first. I have read almost all of Jenn Faulk’s books now, and she is one of my favorite authors!