Daisy Chain
- ISBN13: 9780310278368
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The sudden disappearance of the lucky young Daisy haunts the small town of the issue, Texas. Fourteen-year-old Jed Pepper looks for answers in this gritty and compelling story of love and suffering reveals God’s hand of deliverance in impossible situations. Lyrical fiction from a result of new literary talent. . . . more>>
March 6th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
I was pleasantly surprised by this book.
I had never heard of this author, and was a bit worried when reading a book in the category of “religion”
This book is amazing! He married the discovery and faith with the real world painful accident. From the beginning, the characters are feeling and going through the emotions as they pass by them. You want the pages and hug, cry, laugh, reach, and devotion to believe, right with them. All the time that highlights the power of faith and religion.
Not a single sentence in this book resembles a conference. Instead it uses an incident happens in every American community at one time or another, and shows how to release the pre-judgments and expectations, anything can be healed and overcome.
a note, I must add that if you read this book, you have no choice but to continue the series. Not because of obligation but because you are so attached to characters that you’re there for them if they continue their journey. Not a character you meet in this book is a throwaway society. They are all written for a reason and are part of history by doing what it is. Simply launch a rare gift is dominated by this author.
The first book of the trilogy, is a sure success! The second book, “A Slow Burn” is sure to be the most attractive and well written. Please make sure that when they examined how the fate of the 1st October 2009.
Rating: 5 / 5
March 6th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
By Michelle Wegner
I just finished reading Daisy Chain by Mary Demuth last night. I love a good story, one that takes me and kept me all the time. This story for me and many more. He has hit parts of me in a very profound that I never thought for a long time, what to think about myself and when I think of how I got here.
The Way of Mary tells this story in Defiance, Texas in the Set 70 made me feel as if I was there with each character, what she describes. I could feel the heat of Texas, affect the smell of the air, tangled hair of Daisy, and seeing her dance and swirl in the wind. You tell me Hap feel rage and anger in a very real way. Something about the ambiguity of his character, a small town preacher by day and a woman humiliating a child abused husband / father in the night, crawling out of my skin.
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I loved this story.
I can not for 2 and 3 will wait for the books, so I can put my mind at rest and see what happens at the end. . .
Rating: 5 / 5
March 6th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Through the compelling novel “Daisy Chain”, Mary E. Demuth has a new standard for Christian fiction, and put only a few authors will always come close to achieving. Humility does not want to simply walk away from his books, “read a good story.” . . They want you to live and they are transformed by their message.
Can you see how your heart beat Jed Pepper Daisy runs to verify. You will find themselves with rage at his father Jed, who tells the story of a heart for God as a preacher, but met behind closed doors abusive. You want to sit with the mother of Jed and let her cry on his shoulder. Perhaps you might want to go and help Defiance Jed and his sister to seek help for Daisy and pray in hope for the brokenness that the city used, but it is not necessary. The author takes you into the grace of God in the form of Hixon and Muriel. Humility is not something of the history has loose or undone. She has woven a tapestry of perfect truth of the tragedy, but the triumph assured by God’s mercy and grace. Each character is so mysterious and fascinating as our Creator has made each of us. The author reserves brilliantly on the edge of your seat with you through the realities of a fallen world. She did not beat the bush, they do not seek pain sugar coating. “Daisy chain” your heart and your eyes open for you to get a glimpse of what it is, has been witnessed in other than God.
Mary E. Demuth by God to write, given that talent could work most of his life, and never far away. Each word is carefully chosen and cleverly written. You read all night “daisy chain” and there is hope, there is no end to tell the incredible story of Mary’s Defiance, TX. Fortunately for you, the second book of the trilogy Texas is released and you should not wait to read ( “A Slow Burn”). My advice. . They buy both. . . You do not want to wait all through the bookstore or the time it takes for the transfer
Rating: 5 / 5
March 6th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Mary DeMuth Daisy Chain, put me in Defiance, Texas, left me in the mid 70 ‘s got injured and lost in the house of a family. Jed fourteen years and has his best friend and future wife. It’s his fault because he is weak and selfish, and he did not go home, the Spitfire little, because it would be if he did, his father being disturbed. And if Dad is angry bad things happen. Daddy was a preacher. Jed does not quite himself to stand up to daddy to protect her precious sister, and wrote to his sick mother broke – a mother, messages of love, encouragement, and afflicted by the petals and leaves his bed Jed.
Jed world is upside down and backwards. The city holds its breath, because Daisy is missing. And the sky is brazen, because God does not hear Jed, and does not seem to care.
When these little plays you inside and upside down, you may want to read this book. But if you get one, a Mockingbird and Peace Like a River “as one of your favorite novels kill claims, if you really owe it to yourself to look further at Daisy Chain. Tom Morrisey, Lisa Samson, Claudia Mair Burney, Charles Martin and W. Dale Cramer fans need to look in the direction of Mary DeMuth also.
It is a novel that made me for weeks and months will follow, probably in 2009 landing on the list of my favorites. The characters are deep and rich, complex and difficult. The story is good and beautiful and terrible and complete tear of the power of love and faith and Jesus. I can not imagine anyone being shocked not bleed and then blessed as the novel opens and blooms, withers and fades. Technically, the only complaint I had some moments of transition between adults and younger versions of Jed Jed and a brief incident in which a calendar scene is not quite jive in my head. And these questions are only books because I read so many years, for consideration, not only on the pages of lost and do not use for any defect which might interfere with a reader in search of experience.
So I appreciate the depth of truth and faith in this novel. Daisy chain could be a very difficult book for some readers. Danger to children, abuse, anger, intolerance, religious harassment, drinking and references to sex scandals are not buried under a layer of white gloves with a pristine Sunday. I recommend just daisy chain all those who hunger for fiction honest, that does not weeping over the futility of a story without redemption and grace.
Rating: 5 / 5
March 6th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
It would be good for a sub-title of this book. It is well written, there are many characters, the theme is sad. . . and I still read the whole book and bought the 2nd Place in the trilogy.
The book is all too real, with so many terrible things that can happen in real life. It brings a new dimension to the regular books and television shows. . . In these circumstances, we can control or choose how things happen in our lives, our beliefs have an impact on themselves, colors, through which we see the world. Created in my life. . . It will be interesting to see how it will be used for good.
A young man living in a “Christian” environment with a violent father, the mother is not as able to protect or is left at home without mentally with a headache, a little sister who she loves and needs his brother, a friend who becomes a missing person in the front pages and the rest of the cast of characters in the middle of this group.
It’s a good book – if you are someone who has had a difficult family, or you are someone who came from a loving family. . . The book will help some of the damage that can be made and some ways to limit the damage. As I said, I bought the second book of the trilogy.
Rating: 4 / 5