I must admit, I didn't much like a good chunk of this book. fall in love with their stories all over again! Journey with this sweet couple through married life and up and downs in the ministry. Todd Spencer is a youth pastor, and Christy loves being his wife and making their little apartment a home. So you can guess how thrilled I was when I heard Robin Jones Gunn was writing CHRISTY & TODD: THE MARRIED YEARS!! Christy and Todd forever! <3 *grins*įorever With You, Book One in CHRISTY & TODD: THE MARRIED YEARS series, starts out with Christy waiting to tell Todd some important news. I loved going back into their world and I felt like Christy, Todd, and their friends were somehow my friends. There was something about the CHRISTY MILLER, SIERRA JENSEN, CHRISTY & TODD: THE COLLEGE YEARS, and KATIE WELDON series that just drew me in. On the whole this was an entertaining read, even though I thought the end was perhaps a trifle predictable. Some of the secondary characters were interesting. Even though I enjoyed this novel, it is probably better suited to young adults, particularly if they are Christian have an interest in learning more of God. But that could be an age group difference. Occasionally the dialogue sounded a little forced to me. In fact sometimes they go from bad to worse before they get better. The book shows a young couple trying to live God’s way but that doesn’t mean everything always goes right. What I liked was that it showed even when a couple is in love, marriage will not always go smoothly and there will be times when communication breaks down and people respond to events in different ways. Bible verses and relationship with God run throughout the book, even though not all the characters who claim to be Christian at times portray the best character traits. It is Christian fiction and as such contains a strong faith theme. Christy’s reactions resonated more with me than the way Todd did to the problems they faced.

I felt the situation when things start to fall apart, despite trying to follow God, was conveyed well. Christy works at time in a bookshop and Todd is a youth minister. I quickly got into the story, largely because some of the issues and challenges facing Christy and Todd were familiar to me through the situations of family and friends involved in ministry. It didn’t matter that I had not read the earlier books. Unlike a lot of people I had not read any of the Christy Miller series as a teenager, so I came to this with no knowledge of the two main characters, Christy and Todd, her husband of not quite two years.

Forever with you robin jones gunn