CHRISTIAN FICTION

Welcome to the Honey B&B

by Melody Carlson
Revell. Mar. 2025. 304p. ISBN 9780800746025. pap. $16.99. CF
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When Honey vowed to love CT in sickness and health, she never imagined spending their retirement years hiding the guns so CT won’t shoot the neighbors, putting out literal fires, and watching True Grit at least once a day—all because her beloved husband now has frontotemporal dementia and needs round-the-clock care. Their impulsive adult daughter Jewel, while talking on the phone with her mother, hears her unspoken cry for help and uproots her recalcitrant teenager to move back to rural Oregon and help on the family farm. The farm’s transformation into a honey-themed B&B is secondary to the transformation in the hearts of the family members as they navigate an unforgiving illness with grace, humor, and some very relatable frustration.
VERDICT Equally hilarious and heart-rending, Carlson’s (The Christmas Tree Farm) novel draws on her own experience as a caregiver to provide a devastatingly real novel of deep, quiet faith in the face of a family’s worst fear. Pat Simmons and Katie Powner explore similar themes in Lean on Me and A Flicker of Light.
Reviewed by Christine Barth , Jan 01, 2025
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