Kelly's Chance by Wanda Brunstetter

This week, the

Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Kelly’s Chance Barbour Books; Reprint edition (January 1, 2010)
by
Wanda E. Brunstetter

Life for Kelly McGregor is a daily drudge of driving her overbearing father’s mules along Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Canal. She dreams of one day owning an art gallery where her own drawings and paintings are on display. But these dreams don’t include marriage. . .not after seeing what her father has done to her mother. How then can Mike Cooper, a general store owner, make her realize he is different than her father and wants to support her artistic talent? Will Kelly learn that dreams can walk hand in hand with a love created by God?

If you would like to read the first chapter of Kelly’s Chance , go HERE.

Ever since I was a child, I wanted to be a writer. When I was in the second grade, I wrote my first poem about a moth. Luckily, I received encouragement from my teacher. During my teen years, I wrote skits that my church teen group performed during special holidays.

It wasn’t until 1980, that I took a course on writing for children and teenagers. I became serious about a career as an author. Soon after that, I began to write stories, articles, poems, and devotionals, which appeared in a variety of Christian publications. Later, I had 5 books of puppet/ventriloquist scripts published. *These books are currently available by contacting me. (wanda@wandabrunstetter.com)

My first novel was released by Barbour Publishing’s book club, Heartsong Presents, in Dec. 1997. I have now written nearly fifty books, with over 4 million books in print. Many of the novels I've written are Amish-themed.

This was a simple, quick read.  I wanted to try out this book, as I had previously read one of Wanda's Amish fiction books and wanted to compare this to it.  I appreciated that the book was set in Pennsylvania - though I'm not super-familiar with the Easton area where the book is set, I have been there a few times (to visit the Crayola factory) and I enjoyed learning about the workings of the canal (we have old canal paths in our area and I find it very interesting).  However, I found the storyline to be very predictable and the characters to be rather "one dimensional" (not a lot of depth).  If you're looking for a quick read that doesn't require much thought, go for it