Blog Tour and review for Miracle of Mercy Land by River Jordan

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: WaterBrook Press; Original edition (September 7, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0307457052
•  Product Description

What if you had the power to amend choices you made in the past? Would you do it even if it changed everything?
 Mercy Land has made some unexpected choices for a young woman in the 1930s. The sheltered daughter of a traveling preacher, she chooses to leave her rural community to move to nearby Bay City on the warm, gulf-waters of southern Alabama. There she finds a job at the local paper and spends seven years making herself indispensible to old Doc Philips, the publisher and editor. Then she gets a frantic call at dawn—it’s the biggest news story of her life, and she can’t print a word of it.
           
Doc has come into possession of a curious book that maps the lives of everyone in Bay City—decisions they’ve made in the past, and how those choices affect the future. Mercy and Doc are consumed by the mystery locked between the pages—Doc because he hopes to right a very old wrong, and Mercy because she wants to fulfill the book’s strange purpose. But when a mystery from Mercy’s past arrives by train, she begins to understand that she will have to make choices that will deeply affect everyone she loves—forever. 

My Thoughts:
This book is a spiritual thriller with a bit of supernatural thrown into the mix. The story takes place in a small town in Alabama in the 1930's. About a book that is found by the owner of a newspaper, that has the ability to change the people in the book and their destinies.  A young woman who is a reporter and general girl Friday to the owner/editor, Mercy is one of the main characters. She loves working at the newspaper and especially working with her boss, Doc. She finds out about the book and has the chance to look at it and between her and Doc, they spend a lot of time reading this book. Someone from Mercy's past comes to town and is also interested in this book.  This novel is about the choices that we make in life and the relationships that make our lives what they are and what path our lives take. I read this book in almost one sitting, it was mezmerizing without being overly religious. A very enjoyable read.
I received this book from Waterbrook and was not compensated for my review.