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I first read this book, I wasn't married, And while I enjoyed it then, the story didn't have a great impact on me, However, now that I've been married for almostyears, rereading Wildflowers, I have a new appreciation and understanding for Genevieve and her struggles.
I highly recommend it! I'll say it again, . . I found Robin Jones Gunn's Glenbrooke series awesome and I just couldn't wait to read the next one in line, I love the way that God was interwoven with real life situations!!! I absolutely LOVED this one, probably as much as I loved the first book in the series.
I wish the other installments had the same amount of group interactions but nonetheless, Im happy we got all of them together for this final book.
The Glenbrooke series has been a huge blessing in my life and Im so happy I finished it but Im so excited to re read it in the future.
.wild flowers glenbrook series bookby robin jones gunn
steve and geneviere have a trusting marriage, he's an airplane pilot and is often jetting off to attend conventions,
she runs a local cafe theirgirls keep them busy.
things start to wear on her as she's saddled with the girls
all the time and the cafe, the inheritance money he invested badly that her store could've really used.
so she starts
making some changes in the cafe after spending a dinner at a resortmiles away, it has a tree growing in the middle near
the fireplace that make Genevieree hoping that if she used that n her cafe to attract more to come daily and things go
wrong to the point there is a major disaster.
things happen that bring them back to the church and answers to many
questions that have piled up over the months.
the bible and verses she discussed with her lady friends at their meetings
and that helped not only her marriage but her daily life.
really like how the local people in town help and their stories
are brought up to date from previous books.

If I could I would give this book a,star rating. I enjoyed how the author incorporated a marriage woman into the main character of one of her books, It was intersting to write about "falling in love" from the perspective of an already married couple, This was a slow and peaceful read, not a lot of stuff happens in the book, So I was tempted to discard it from time to time, When Genevieve Ahrens moves into the charming community of Glenbrooke, she revives the downtown area by purchasing the Wallflower Restaurant and making it a town favorite.
But Gena's heart needs some renovation of its own when her daughter marries and

Gena is back in touch with her estranged husband.
All of her advice to a young friend about forgiving and trusting God to heal the hurt haunts her as she and Stephen talk through what went wrong in their marriage.
Will the painfilled couple experience the joy of God's redeeming grace or the agony of divorce

Genevieve has been married for over half her lifeso how can she suddenly fall deeply in love for the very first time

Genevieve Ahrens dream is coming true at last! Glenbrookes Wildflowers Cafe goes up for sale and Genevieve knows she can make it into something special.


However, her new venture is far from easy, With her husband gone so often due to his career as an international airline pilot, Genevieve is alone in making all the important decisions.
Her heart is empty and hollowed out, . . like an isolated cottage boarded up for a long winter season,

Its in the solitude of this dark season that Genevieve discovers friends she didnt realize she had, When this small circle of tenderhearted women rally around her, Genevieve finds light streaming in through the door of her heart.
A door she thought she had locked and bolted long ago, The biggest surprise of all is when Genevieve realizes she is giddily in lovewith the last man she expected could make her feel this way! Love this series.
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I DONT WANT THIS SERIES TO BE OVER!!!!! cries
,stars
I really enjoyed Genevieve as a character in Sunsets, even though she wasn't a huge presence, so I was thrilled to realize the conclusion of this series would give me a full look into her life and also bring almost all the characters from each separate book together.
I also thought it was great that Gunn focused on a married relationship here because although I enjoyed each Glenbrooke woman's story, they were all in generally the same state of life.
Wildflowers took those fantasies and hopes of marriage and brought them into the reality that all longmarried couples will eventually face.
I could gripe about this book, because there were some things I didn't think flowed very well and began to aggravate me, but I'd rather focus on the positive points for it and the series as a whole.
Genevieve makes some realizations about love and forgiveness that all Christians at some point in their lives need to get to, or they will end up living bitterly.
The nonjudgmental relationships between female characters are huge, Again, this is something many Christian women struggle with and it was beautiful to see what the ideal can look like.


Overall, I liked the series and would probably recommend it to others, I don't see it as a reread, though I will likely go back and skim some favorite passages, I came to it at the right time in life and I don't know that it would be as impactful further down the road.
I really enjoyed this sweet and amusing Christian romancethe truly unique factor of this volume of the series is that the couple focused on in this romance are already married, and we get to see how they grow closer together and truly fall in love with one another as the woman grows in Christ and the man comes to know Christ.
The characters were well drawn, and I liked the plot a lot, This series is full of both great characters and great stories where character lessons and spiritual truths are interwoven with the fun plots.
Like all of her books, this one impacted me spiritually, It encouraged me to show forgiveness in my own life in certain ways and all around was a WONDERFUL story,/recommend Best story of this series! How nice to read a love story about a married couple who find God and rekindle their love at the same time.
I really loved this book Ive loved the entire series and I wish there were more! This one is about renewed love, which is one of my favorite genres.
So good! Julyreread.
It is been interesting, rereading the Glenbrook series after reading A Victim of Grace, to pick out the places RJG inserted the lessons she was learning in her own life in her fiction.


Mayreread. This book came recommended to me at church, As a Christian, I thought I would love this author and her stories, but for me, not so much, It felt forced, contrived. The plot could have been interesting new business adventure, lighting marital love again, friends in different stages of life but none felt even partially developed or truly real to me.
I don't think I will read any of the others in the series, I believe Christ works in our lives daily, but I also believe in personal responsibility and free will and more subtle moments of feeling his presence.
Just not for me. Sorry. A beautiful story!!! a woman finding forgiveness and the love of God after spending so much time trying to hide by burying herself in other things.
. I love all Robin's books and so glad to have read this one too, great series I think this book spoke to me the most, There is one line that humbled me, "Do you want to be made well, Genevieve" I can't wait to be able to hand these books down to my daughter.
She's enjoyed the Christy Miller series so much, Honestly, I'm just happy there aren't anymore books in the series, I'm not sure I can really give this book a fair evaluation because I'm pretty tainted by my dislike of the series in general.
I did like the premise of this piece, the concept of God's renewal of marital love, Genevieve was a very different character than I anticipated based on what I read of her on prior stories, but I was happy to see her growth.
I enjoyed the writing of this book a little more there seemed to be less wandering thoughts than some of the others.
I'd give four for concept, but two for execution, ROBIN JONES GUNN is the much loved author of overbooks with than,million copies of her titles sold worldwide, Her Father Christmas books have been made intoHallmark movies, Her popular Christy Miller series now continues in Christy Todd: The Married Years and The Baby Years, Robins novels and non fiction works have received multiple awards and are a favorite with book clubs and study groups, Robin and her husband have a grown son and daughter and live in Hawaii, ROBIN JONES GUNN is the much loved author of overbooks with than,million copies of her titles sold worldwide, Her Father Christmas books have been made intoHallmark movies, Her popular Christy Miller series now continues in Christy Todd: The Married Years and The Baby Years, Robin's novels and non fiction works have received multiple awards and are a favorite with book clubs and study groups, Robin and her husband have a grown son and daughter and live in Hawaii, sitelink.