Karen Ball

Gabe and Renee Roman find their troubled marriage further tested by an Oregon mountain blizzard that places their lives in danger, a situation that forces them to experience new levels of suffering and sacrifice. Original.

The Breaking Point

Jeni Enjaian

I am really disappointed with this book. It has the potential to be brilliant, thus why I gave it three stars instead of two. However, this book fails to live up to that potential and instead comes disturbingly close to the rut of traditional trite Christian fiction. (Again, it doesn't actually fall into that run; that would have garnered two stars, maybe even one, if it had.)

Gabe and Renee are flawed characters living in a flawed marriage. (Trite Christian fiction usually avoids subjects like flawed marriage.) The only problem with that is the fact that Ms. Ball repeats the crisis/breakthrough/falling in love again scenario so many times it becomes boring and predictable. It also casts doubt on their final "breakthrough." Will they actually learn their ways or just go back to their old ways like they did after every previous "breakthrough?"

That alone was my biggest problem. (There were other nit-picky things I could mention but...)

This book also does not survive my purge. I can't really recommend it either.

The Breaking Point

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