Corner of Blue by Sharon McAnear

What a fantastic read!  Set in Texas, this story deals with the issue of romance and prejudice in a loving and heart-warming way.

Jemmabeth is a girl trying to find her way in life and this book is about her journey through romance.  She has known love, but decides that she wants to see if there is anything or anyone more exciting out in the world.  She finds excitement, but happiness still eludes her.  When she returns home to nurse a broken heart, she realizes that what she had in the past wasn’t so bad.

While staying with her grandma, Jemmabeth discovers a blossoming friendship from “across the tracks”.  She strives to change the towns point of view by refusing to care what others think about her new friend.  Will their friendship survive the prejudice of the town?

This book touches on many issues in Jemmabeth’s life.  McAnear does a great job of bringing Jemmabeth to life and making you love her.  This was a book that is well worth the time to read it…but be forewarned that it is a series.  Be sure and have all the books in The Jemma Series so you won’t be left on the edge of your seat with no conclusion!

I decided I would read and write a review of this book for the website, but I couldn’t do it.  The book is full of the worst kind of violence from beginning to end (at least until I stopped reading…I wasn’t able to finish it!).

If you are thinking of reading it, be forewarned that it is filled with extreme accounts of and memories of violence.