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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
Set in upstate New York, teenage Aurora "Rori" Mason loves her neighbor, Nathan Jovanovich, but when he returns from a family vacation linked with another neighbor, Jenna, Rori is destroyed. Her minister father loves her, but distantly, since the death of her mother years before; he prefers to listen to sermons on the radio and to collect books. Rori wants to be accepted for herself, but neighbors and her father label her as a "falling star," a wild child. Feeling unloved, Rori runs off with another neighbor, bad boy musician Brett Foxx, who mistreats Rori and cheats on her. Eleven years have passed and now Rori, a gifted dancer, works at a strip club and teaches dance part time at a local studio. She visits her father at Christmastime and meets Nate, now a widowed minister and father to a baby girl. They rekindle their love, but can a minister and a strip club dancer really come together in a marriage that will last?
Falling Star, which is the first book in the author's AngelFire Trilogy, is a first-rate Christian romance. It is well written even though it needs a table of contents. Major and minor characters are believable, and the plot unfolds nicely with Nate and Rori keeping steamy, but chaste, relations until their marriage. Some editing is needed, as seven-year-old Zak speaks more like a teenager than a little boy, and Rori's former love, Brett, hangs around too long. Under normal circumstances, Rori would enforce her insistence that he leave immediately. Otherwise, this is a delightful read for Christian romance readers.
