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Title: Consider the Thorns

Subtitle: The Trampled Rose Series

Author: Michelle Lynn Brown

Narrator: Meghan Kelly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-15

Publisher: Michelle Lynn Brown

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Barbara Houlton is a best-selling romance author, known for her achingly sweet love stories. However, her own love life is nothing to write home about. Raped on the eve of her high-school graduation, she was left pregnant and scarred, both emotionally and physically. She has learned to hide the physical scars, but the emotional scars that taint her soul become harder to hide each day. Sarcasm, avoidance and denial have become weapons to keep her monstrous past at bay. Barbara avoids her home town at all costs. She denies to all those who are concerned for her that there is anything wrong. And those who try to pass her protective boundaries are met with her cutting sarcasm. Her emotional scars make intimacy a frightening thing, and those who try to grasp this beautiful rose are quickly met with her thorns. Instead, she loves through her characters, embracing her romantic dreams with every book she writes, and convinces herself it is enough.

When her father falls ill, she is forced to return home to Hamilton, New Mexico, a small town that comes with big problems, the biggest of which is Steve Meston. Steve has had a crush on Barbara since high school. But he is no longer the awkward, shy boy from her youth. He is now confident, handsome and relentless in his pursuit of her, despite her best efforts to put him off. His patient and steadfast love back her into a corner, and she finds that all her weapons are useless against his sweet love. Now she must stop avoiding and confront her past, or lose the one man who was able to get past her thorns.

Members Reviews:

STILL SNIFFLING....LOVED IT!!!!

Where does Consider the Thorns rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

This was a wonderful and heart wrenching story.....it ranks way up there!!!

What did you like best about this story?

I liked how it was based on faith and healing....its a christian story...and it was really beautiful....I cried and cried!!!

Which character as performed by Meghan Kelly was your favorite?

Barb...she was so wounded..and needed help in the worst way...she had lost her faith...could not trust, or truly let herself be loved....but when she opened her heart back up to God....and a good man...she started to heal...Meghan broke my heart with her performance...it was so great...I cried like a baby..and am still a little weepy!

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Oh Yes...I cried and cried...and cried some more...my heart hurt for Barb....and I have such a respect for this character..to have went through such a terrible experience and still have kept her baby and just let her love envelope this child with no hatred...it is truly amazing...but in doing so, she cut herself of from her own healing process...and I am so glad she finally got her happy ending!

Any additional comments?

** I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review **

First off, this was an amazing performance by Meghan Kelly...I was truly blown away...the raw emotion in Barb was flawless...and it truly ripped out my heart! lol

Barb is a rape survivor...she was violated her senior year by a very bad guy...she ended up pregnant and decided to have her little girl.