Come Spring by Tim LaHaye and Gregory S Dinallo is a Historical Christian Novella. It is about Scottish photographer Dylan Cooper living in Boston during the first world war and trying to make it as an artist and Scottish Grace MacVicar who works at a prestigious art gallery there.
I didn’t like this book and only gave it 2 out of 5 stars. The male characters were all varying levels of dislikable and the one female character was “perfect” (except for not being a believer and being in love with the main male). I don’t mind if characters aren’t believers at the beginning of the story (I enjoy a good redemption story), but the only character that was a “Christian” from the beginning was rude, arrogant, selfish and a prude. Furthermore, they never did come to the Lord, so it didn’t feel like a Christian story at all (which would be fine if that is what I went into the story expecting). But the only Christian elements included were what I would expect to see in a “culturally” Christian time like it was set in and lacking any spiritual depth or feeling.
The writing style was strong, but the story was quite dissatisfying. To be honest, I found it fairly boring up to the end which then felt incomplete. It truly feels like they left the ending off. It wouldn’t have taken another 50 pages to solidly end the story in a satisfying way and that wouldn’t even have made it 200 pages long in total. This, along with the character issues, rendered me unable to enjoy the book or to recommend it.
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