CHRISTIAN FICTION

An Overdue Match

by Sarah Monzon
Bethany House. (Checking Out Love, Bk. 1). Feb. 2025. 320p. ISBN 9780764243745. pap. $17.99. CF
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Evangeline wears her librarian uniform, including a pencil skirt, book themed t-shirt, and high tops, like a suit of armor—just daring patrons to try and slip damaged materials through her book return in Little Creek, TN. Eschewing a heroine arc for herself, she secretly tries to play matchmaker to single patrons with similar reading interests. When tattoo artist Tai, Little Creek’s resident bad boy, offers to help her in exchange for a few dates, Evangeline fears her deepest secret will be revealed: the most important piece of her daily armor is a wig, defending her against stares due to her alopecia.
VERDICT Lovingly poking fun at a variety of romance tropes, Monzon (All’s Fair in Love and Christmas) delivers all the swoony feels, along with a message about true beauty and God’s pursuing love, timely in an age of toxic social media comparison traps. Readers will be eager for more books about Little Creek’s side characters and appreciate the zany situations similar to those in the work of Melissa Ferguson and Becca Kinzer.
Reviewed by Christine Barth , Jan 01, 2025
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