Thank you Netgalley and the Publisher for my ARC in exchange for my honest review. This was an enjoyable book.

This was a book that l did enjoy. It kept me intrigued to know what happens. It had good description, strong characters and a good story. I recommend that you read this book.

I read and reviewed this book voluntarily.
Lacey has not had an easy life so far. She lost her Father when she was 3, her mother to breast cancer, was married and divorced and had breast cancer. She is a medical student doing residency. This is when she learns that her breast cancer has returned. She become close with her plastic surgeon and when she graduates asks him to be her date. They are no longer Dr. And patient. When she voices that she wants more a week later he tells her he is back with his on again off again girl friend and they are going to get married. She is heartbroken. She then receives a letter that changes everything she moves from Kentucky to Pocatello Idaho, to the house she lived I. Until she was 3. She prays for someone to spend her life with. She finds letters her father wrote to her, which leaves her with more questions then answers. Geret, a nurse at the hospital becomes her friend, and shows her his love. He wants a covenant love. Are Lacey and Geret meant to be? Lacey is looking for her past and her home will it be worth Geret?
I really enjoyed this book. It was an easy fast read with the message of let God lead the way....

This book is the story of three sisters and their families. All of them are experiencing events that place them in a crisis mode. Celia, the oldest, is faces with rebuilding her life after her husband of 30 years leaves her. Anna, the youngest, is a photographer who has roamed the world running from her past. I liked this book because it portrays so many issues women face today. The women in the book are strong and courageous. I couldn't put this book down. Great read!

I found this story to be very realistic. When a person is trying to carve out a life and a career the everyday moments are invisible to those who watch their growth. Lacey's struggles in this story are true and I can say I've been there. She has downtimes but has faith, and that keeps her afloat as she takes on her new career and a new home. She makes friends who are just as close as a family and along this life-journey learns many things about her self. I would even say that a second book would be great as her life is at another step in her growth. If not, we can certainly use our imaginations to fill in the blanks. :)

I received an ARC of this book from Zimbell Publishing via NetGalley, this review is my personal opinion.

Finding Home by Denise Jannete Bruneau
 
I really enjoy reading this book, at the beginning I wasn’t sure about the style or if I was actually was going to like the story. I was surprised, when we first meet Lacey in 2012 she is still studying to become an Obstetrician. We learn about her divorce and her last romantic relationship. After she meets Dr. Andreas she has a feeling for him, however, I like what the author did on page 13” she prayed, Lord if my feelings mean more than infatuation and if this is a good man for me, please bring us together, somehow. But if he is not right for me, please help me forget about him”. We also learn that she is a cancer survivor and since she was an only child the only comfort she receives it’s from her two friends; Katy and Jen.
 
This book asks us an interesting question, what happen in life when things not only don’t go according to the plan, but it also hurts?. Where is God in the middle of all that? So, Lacey needs to take a decision and unexpectedly she receive the farm that used to belong to her grandparents on her father side and so she takes a leap of faith and leave Kentucky to a small, but busy practice in Pocatello Idaho. Is interesting that is here when Lacey have to face not only with many unknowns of her past but also she finds God in a new and different way.
And we have Garet he had a bad experience in his past and he was to focus on his job, but he starts to have feelings for Lacey. I like his prayer on Page 75 “Lord you are the only one who knows the heart. Please bring in to my life who won’t break mine. Show me if there is a place for Lacey Barlett in my life”.
 
The relation progress in a slow and not force way, both characters pray through the book, and we have normal and difficult situations. What makes this story, even been a fictional one. More relatable.
I really like this prayer Lacey does on page 138  “Lord, show me what you have planned. Please help me to no go ahead of you but to wait for your good and perfect plan” I liked to find it in a Christian book, it gives a good message to all the single women out there the importance not only of prayer. But to wait on his time.
If you want to read a good book of a second chance, faith-based, good characters, an interesting plotline, I recommend you to have some tissues close to you(if you are like me you will need it). The best is the epilogue, Denise Jannette Bruneu gives this story a beautiful end.

Because I am an RN, I tend to be drawn to books that have a medical theme. That was what intrigued me with this one when I read its description. However, unfortunately, there was a lot that just wasn't right with this book. Some didn't have to do with the medical aspect. For instance, I thought that the heroine and her friends often acted like giddy teenagers rather than third- and fourth-year medical students. The author didn't pull off the insta love the heroine supposedly felt for the hero. The way the heroine expressed her thoughts and feelings about the hero didn't come across as though she were a mature woman of twenty-eight or thirty years of age. (By the way, the author did say at one point that the heroine was the former, but then later said that she was latter several times.) The author has a tendency to tell rather than show, and that puts an unnatural distance between the reader and what's happening in the book; the book doesn't come alive.

More unfortunately, I could go on for days about what was wrong with the medical and hospital aspects of this book. While, of course, hospitals can use different processes and procedures across the country, some things are rather standard. There were a few times, I swear, that I wanted to throw my Kindle, saying “that would never happen!” Then there were the ethical issues; I had a hard time getting past those. Ethics are quite ingrained in nurses in the years nursing school, and I would hope it would be the same for doctors. So much was wrong along these lines in this book.

For a Christian romance novel, I found the emphasis on the physical appearance unappealing. But the story itself, Lacey's struggles with breast cancer and wanting a family was powerful. Geret was my favorite because of his strength of character and love for God. The importance of praying was an encouragement.

This is a very good book. It is well written and holds your attention from beginning till the end. This would make a great movie. I received an ARC copy of this book from Zimbell House Publishing via NetGalley. All opinions expressed are my own.

Got about half way through but I just couldnt finish. Unfortunately this book did not speak to me and I really wanted to enjoy it. However I could see how it can appeal to others

FINDING HOME is the first book I have read by Denise Janette Bruneau. It was of interest that the author is -- on the surface, at least -- very much like her main character: a woman, medical doctor, and cancer survivor. This made the medical terms and situations realistic and accurate. There is also some good writing in this book,. However, I felt the book failed to live up to its potential.

First, the author did not include sufficient detail in some important parts of the book. For example, the main character, Lacey, is a medical student, but very little is revealed about that important part of her life and months or years are just skipped over. When she has to have emergency surgery, there is no mention of how she manages to still graduate from med school, and the reader is whirled ahead four years to the end of residency training which the book says, "passed slowly."

Second, I felt the relationships are shallow. The book begins with Lacey and her friends drooling over the good looks of a doctor, and all of her love interests seem based on whether a man is handsome. I felt this book very nearly objectified men because there was so much emphasis on appearance and so much swooning, and being nearly paralyzed by overwhelming physical feelings and desire. Her friends from med school lived in other parts of the country and contact was limited to phone calls or a rare meeting. There were no meaningful family relationships because Lacey had no living family. Even when a family connection turns up, it takes the form of dry and unbelievable letters from Lacey's dead father with incredible revelations that add nothing to the storyline.

Third, the plotline is just too convenient to feel real. After a heartbreak (based on a "relationship" that was all but nonexistent), all of Lacey's financial issues for the rest of her life are amazingly resolved with a totally unexpected (and totally unbelievable) huge inheritance. And when she arrives to inspect her new home, fortuitously, there is a great job available in her specialty and another available handsome man.

Finally, while I appreciate characters who pray and rely on faith, Lacey seemed very self-absorbed and only prayed about her needs and the men in her life, whether they were right for her.

While as I mentioned earlier, there's some good writing here, in my view, it doesn't overcome the incredible plotline, the shallow relationships, and the preoccupation of the main character with herself. Two stars from this reviewer.

An absolute jem! I immediately fell in love with this story band it's characters. I cried and wished it not to end! So beautifully written this book stole my heart with the pure joy of faith, love and family! Thank you to Net Galley and to the publisher for the chance to read in exchange for my honest review. I look forward to more from this author!!!

I started reading this book Finding Home by Denise Janette Bruneau and was drawn into the story immediately! It is an interesting, realistic, easy read and did not want it to end. I really liked the characters especially Lacey and Geret. George not so much. This author has a bright future ahead of her. I recommend this book. Thank you for giving me a free copy to read in exchange for my honest review.

FINDING HOME by DENISE JANETTE BRUNEAU is a medical romance novel with a good Christian message. It is a story of hope and second chances. We are left with the feeling that God really is in control and that He will never leave nor forsake His children.
The story starts with Lacey Bartlett and her two best friends, Jen and Katy, at medical school. After a divorce and two failed relationships, together with medical issues, Lacey moves to a farmhouse left to her by her grandmother in the little town of Pocatello, and it is there that she feels at home, where she learns secrets about her childhood, and where she hopes to find the "covenant love" her grandparents enjoyed. She has always felt a certain loneliness because of losing her parents, and a longing to belong in a family. The author really makes us feel her pain, and her exhaustion from hours of work at the hospital, where we see the Lord coming through for her in a particularly difficult C section.
It is a well told story, with believable characters, and altogether a most enjoyable read.
I was given a free copy of the book by NetGalley from Zimbell House Publishing. The opinions in this review are completely my own.