A Stillness of Chimes by Meg Moseley

The symbolism in the cover alone is the worthwhile factor for reading this book. Meg Moseley has written a beautifully deep tale that is full of secrets, past scars and the future promises of forgiveness and healing. A Stillness of Chimes is one of those books that will leave an impact on you. You will be thinking about this books for days after you finish it.

What it's About

What if the pain of the past revealed an unknown sacrifice that changes everything?

When teacher Laura Gantt comes home to Prospect, Georgia to settle her recently-deceased mother’s household, the last thing she expects to encounter is a swirl of rumors about the father she lost to the lake twelve years ago—that he has reportedly been seen around town. Elliott Gantt’s body was never found and he was presumed dead.

Reeling from the sharp loss of a parent, Laura must now grapple with painful memories surrounding her father’s disappearance and the sense of abandonment she experienced after his death. Life-long friend and former beau Sean Halloran wants nothing more than to protect Laura from the far-fetched stories of Elliott’s resurrection and to care for her, but he has his own reasons, troubling echoes from his childhood, to put Elliott’s disappearance to rest.

Working together, Laura and Sean begin to uncover the truth, one mired in the wooded peaks and deep waters of the Blue Ridge Mountains surrounding Prospect. Can they fathom how many secrets the steep hills hold? With surprising facts revealed, will Laura be able to understand the sacrificial choices made that forever changed her life? And can love and a peace with God be rekindled in her heart after so much time has passed?

My Thoughts 

It's barely the end of March and the promises of Christian fiction this year is the best that I have seen since I began reading this genre a few years ago. I have been impressed book after book from each author's individuality of story telling, writing and how they use a Christian theme and center to bring it all together. Meg Moseley is an author this year that has blown me away with her newest novel, A Stillness of Chimes. 

Cover alone this book is breathtaking, but the story that is between the two covers left me speechless throughout most of the book. This book was the perfect book for the changing of seasons where I live. As the winds change from harsh winter to a cooling breeze of spring, this book was just the kind of book that symbolized that. It was fresh, eerie feeling, and overflowing with uniqueness. 

Every single character that was introduced by Moseley never went unattended. Each person was connected to one another. This story deals with the consequences of past sins being uprooted and brought out into the sunlight in a small Southern town. This book was not a book that shied away from hard and confusing tragedies, such as the possibility Laura's father never drowned and yet is indeed alive (seriously read the to the end the answer to this is something I never saw coming). 

The qualities of this book showed me this wasn't an ordinary book from the Family Christian Book Store. This book could be an Indie movie, it's seriously that great! I personally will recommend and loan my copy out to my friends and family because the themes from the book and the cover alone could keep you talking for hours! 

Highly recommend this book for book reading groups and for those of you who like a great twist of events that happen from beginning to end. 

Rating: 4 out of 5 bookshelves 
I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.

About the Author 

 
Meg Moseley writes contemporary Christian fiction including A Stillness of Chimes, Gone South, When Sparrows Fall, and the novella A May Bride.

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In His Grace, 
Taylor Reid