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I have read books by Rachel Hauck in the past and enjoyed them, but when I read the blurb for "The Wedding Chapel", I decided to pass on reading it. I'm not that into the "already married, but need to work on our marriage" story line. However, a group I belong to, The Fiction Guild" sent me this book to review.

There is a lot to keep track of in the book with it following Jimmy, Colette, Taylor, and Jack, as well as flipping back and forth between the past and the present. I found the characters to be interesting and I wanted to know what was the deal with why everyone was acting the way that they were. I found myself frustrated and angry over the secrets and lies that had so completely altered peoples lives which shows the book was well written, I guess. It made me almost glad that I had finished the book and to know the secrets were finally revealed. There is a Christian message throughout the book, but the characters didn't live very Christian lives with many of them having "been" with people they weren't married to. It didn't give details, just that they had done it in the past. I understand that sometimes Christian people mess up and do things they shouldn't, but I rather like pure heroes and heroines. I actually guessed at the biggest secret in the book about halfway through the book and just had to wait to see I was right.

I received a free copy of this book in order for me to review it and give my honest opinion. All thoughts and opinions are my own and no other compensation was received.


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The Wedding Chapel Rachel Hauck 0025986341527 Books Reviews

This is another of Rachel Hauck's books that cover different time periods and how they intersect at some point. As the story starts out, a group of close high school friends get together to hang out all the time--after school, football games and during the summer in the town of Heart's Bend, Tennessee. This is during the 40's right before the Korean War. As it happens in the life of a group of friends, jealousy occurs as does competition between each other. Collette and Jimmy loved each other and wanted to marry. He even built a wedding chapel on his family's land for Collette. But Collette's sister was also in love with Jimmy. She was the stronger personality and convinced Collette that she should stay away from Jimmy. So, Collette ran away to New York with one of the guys in the group. Some of the group went to war. Some of them married and stayed in Heart's Bend. Years later, Collette is an actress in a long running soap opera. Jimmy was a hall of fame football star and high school coach. But he never married.

On a different timeline, in today's time, Taylor left Heart's Bend to pursue a career as a photographer. She is living in New York. She and Jack, a media specialist, also from Heart's Bend run into each other and marry after a whirlwind romance. But their marriage is on shaky grounds. Jack comes from a dysfunctional background and has problems believing the marriage is going to work out. He is keeping secrets from Taylor about a job offer in a different city, thinking that she won't want to go with him. When Taylor's job sends her on a photo shoot for the soap opera that Collette is a cast member of, she meets Collette, who is actually her grandmother's sister. About the same time, Taylor's job sends her to Heart's Bend for a photo shoot of the wedding chapel that Jimmy built. As Taylor and her sister clean out their recently deceased grandmother's house, the secrets of years ago begin to slowly unravel as she reads her grandmother's journal.

This is a thought provoking story about the frailties and humanity of people and how misunderstandings and secrets can cause so much damage but also the power of redemption and healing through grace. There is a connection between the characters in the different generations that Rachel Hauck has created and she does a great job of telling an amazing story to tie everything together.
Heart's Bend, Tennessee is the setting for The Wedding Chapel by Rachel Hauck. Let the town's name give you a clue as to the message contained within this story - the love story of Jimmy and Colette. Their tale begins in 1948 when Colette and her sister Peg arrive in town to live with their aunt and uncle. The girls are war orphans who lost both parents as a result of World War II. When Jimmy sees a picture of the two girls before they arrive in town, he loses his heart to the younger of the girls, Colette. But due to his shyness around girls and her overbearing sister, the two have a hard time getting to know each other and end up merely looking at one another from afar. Jimmy overcomes his shyness enough to make the first move and the two fall in love. Fast forward to the current day and we find Jimmy and Colette in their early eighties, living lives much different from what they first imagined. Jimmy is now the retired coach of the local high school football team. Colette is living a life of luxury in a Manhattan penthouse overlooking Central Park; she is adored by her fans after having played Vivica Spenser on a soap opera for 60+ years. What has split these two young lovers apart? What secrets does each hold close to their heart? And how does a never used wedding chapel back in Heart's Bend figure into their love story?

A second love story set in the present is also interwoven throughout, that of Taylor and Jack. They too are natives of Heart's Bend who left the country to find fame and fortune and is so doing find each other. But each has a boatload of baggage that they've brought with them. In spite of that they both want desperately to make their marriage work but fear the unknown. Will the wedding chapel back in Heart's Bend bring these two closer or finalize their split?

A tale of love and lost love, secrets and lies, and healing of wounds is the central theme of this wonderful story. Interwoven with an unshakable faith in God, you'll find yourself rooting for the characters in this charming tale.
I have read books by Rachel Hauck in the past and enjoyed them, but when I read the blurb for "The Wedding Chapel", I decided to pass on reading it. I'm not that into the "already married, but need to work on our marriage" story line. However, a group I belong to, The Fiction Guild" sent me this book to review.

There is a lot to keep track of in the book with it following Jimmy, Colette, Taylor, and Jack, as well as flipping back and forth between the past and the present. I found the characters to be interesting and I wanted to know what was the deal with why everyone was acting the way that they were. I found myself frustrated and angry over the secrets and lies that had so completely altered peoples lives which shows the book was well written, I guess. It made me almost glad that I had finished the book and to know the secrets were finally revealed. There is a Christian message throughout the book, but the characters didn't live very Christian lives with many of them having "been" with people they weren't married to. It didn't give details, just that they had done it in the past. I understand that sometimes Christian people mess up and do things they shouldn't, but I rather like pure heroes and heroines. I actually guessed at the biggest secret in the book about halfway through the book and just had to wait to see I was right.

I received a free copy of this book in order for me to review it and give my honest opinion. All thoughts and opinions are my own and no other compensation was received.