The Offering by Angela Hunt

My Thoughts:

Children.  A precious gift, often taken for granted in the rush of life.  But, if you will, please pause a second and consider what you would do if you couldn't have a child?  Your dream of a little one just wasn't happening.  To what lengths would you go to to have a child?  To add a precious member to your family?  Adoption, fostering, or even...  hiring a surrogate?  The Offering ponders these questions and truly makes you look inside yourself.  The main character, Mandy, is intelligent, loving and motivated.  She longs to help her family financially and at the same time help another couple that is unable to conceive a child.  Becoming a surrogate seems like an answer to prayer.  I appreciated Mandy's position and enjoyed her as a main character, although I didn't always agree with all her choices.  Angela Hunt does a heartfelt and thorough job of representing both sides of the surrogate/parent relationship.  I actually became emotionally attached to the characters in this book.  About 3/4 of the way through the story (while at the salon) I was blindsided by an event I didn't anticipate and I actually gasped out loud!  The Offering is emotional and intense and portrays a fictional story that could very well become a reality.  The ending is still on my mind and I wonder what decision I would've made?   

About The Offering:

After growing up as an only child, Amanda Lisandra wants a big family. But since she and her soldier husband can't afford to have more children right away, Mandy decides to earn money as a gestational carrier for a childless couple. She loves being pregnant, and while carrying the child she dreams of having her own son and maybe another daughter. . .
Just when the nearly perfect pregnancy is about to conclude, unexpected tragedy enters Mandy's world and leaves her reeling. Devastated by grief, she surrenders the child she was carrying and struggles to regain her emotional equilibrium.

Two years later she studies a photograph of the baby she bore and wonders if the unthinkable has happened---could she have inadvertently given away her own biological child? Over the next few months Mandy struggles to decide between the desires of her grief-stricken heart and what's best for the little boy she has never known.

Meet Angela: 

With over four million copies of her books sold worldwide, Angela Hunt is the bestselling author of more than one hundred books, including "The Nativity Story". Hunt is one of the most sought-after collaborators in the publishing industry. Her nonfiction book "Don't Bet Against Me", written with Deanna Favre, spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Angela's novel "The Note" (with sales of over 141,000) was filmed as the Hallmark Channel's Christmas movie for 2007 and proved to be the highest rated television movie in the channel's history. Angela's novels have won or been nominated for several prestigious industry awards, including the RITA, the Christy Award, the ECPA Christian Book Award, and the Holt Medallion. She often travels to teach writing workshops at schools and writers' conferences, and she served as the keynote speaker at the 2008 American Christian Fiction Writers' national conference. She and her husband make their home in Florida with mastiffs. In 2001, one of her dogs was featured on Live with Regis and Kelly as the second-largest dog in America.

Learn more at http://www.angelahuntbooks.com

Angela Hunt is celebrating the release of The Offering with a Nook HD Giveaway and an Author Chat Party on Facebook {6/5}.






One winner will receive:

• A Nook HD
  


• The Offering by Angela Hunt 

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*I was given a copy of this book by Litfuse Publications in exchange for my honest opinion.  No other compensation was received.*