Reviews for Where Mercy Flows

The average rating for Where Mercy Flows based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-04-19 00:00:00 Steven Ricks My wife brought this book home from a writer's conference and gushed about it. I read it afterward and was blown away. It's an incredibly well written and captivating story of redemption and forgiveness. Samantha Dodd is returning home to her parent's home with her illegitimate son, all their possessions packed in their car like vagabonds because she has no choice. She's dying. She has only a short time to mend fences with her stern, disapproving father, a retired judge. It's hard to believe it was the author's first effort. My wife had become friends with the author, Karen Harter. Karen was suffering from pancreatic cancer at the time. I had heard she was researching her next novel at a university in Ellensburg Washington and was a fly fisher, as am I. Ellensburg is near one of my favorite streams, so I extended an offer to take her fishing. She was a truly delightful person, trusting and giving and full of exuberance. The sun was shining that day and it was unseasonably warm. The leaves on the trees glowed as if aflame. We talked writing. We talked about life. We talked about the underlying themes of her book. And we laughed. That was Karen's last fishing trip. She died a few months later. Sometimes life too closely mirrors art, or is it the other way around? She left behind a brilliant book and memories I'll always treasure. Trust me on this, I would have loved this book even if I'd never met Karen. It's a great read I highly recommend.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-04-29 00:00:00 Thomas Herrman I really liked this novel. Definitely brought tears to my eyes at the end. Wonderful ending. Absolutely wonderful. This novel isn't a good as Autumn Blue by her, but it definitely was a great read. Enlightening, inspirational...