Moving on from her past seemed impossible. Until she met the One who promised to give her a future.
When Aubrey moves across the country to San Diego to escape her past, she is hopeful that she can finally discover God’s purpose for her life and meet her future husband. She doesn’t know too much about God, but she is confident her new faith and her new city will help her leave her drunken mistakes and dating history behind.
As she settles into her new beach life, Aubrey meets Jake while watching dolphins play in the ocean. They instantly hit it off and it feels like fate, but soon, Aubrey begins to question Jake’s true intentions and lifestyle.
Is this the guy God has chosen for her? If this is the life God has intended for her, then why does she still feel so lost and alone, and why does she keep making the same mistakes?
Aubrey quickly realizes her past has followed her to her new city, and that going to church every once in a while isn’t good enough. After a few nights she’d like to forget, God shows her that she has a choice to make.
Aubrey can choose God and to do life his way, or she can choose to continue trying to find love and acceptance from the world.
Will she ever be able to move on from her past? Will she have the courage to surrender it all to God?
My Thoughts:
Based on the author’s life experiences, One Transforming Love by Erin Elise Kiu dives into the party and hookup lifestyle that she once partook of. The aching desires and raw emotions that Aubrey, the protagonist, experiences in the story felt authentic. True to reality, Aubrey spends a large portion of the book craving change while struggling to leave her way of life. While the novel calls out excessive drinking and casual sex as wrong, the story points to love, acceptance, and transformation found in the arms of Jesus. It has the feel of a devotional wrapped in a fictional narrative.
One Transforming Love by Erin Elise Kiu entertains
while offering truth and hope for change. While likely intended for young women
caught between the party scene and a longing for something more, it can benefit
a woman of any age struggling with such issues. I love One Transforming Love’s
beautiful cover and recommend it for ages 16+ due to content.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I was provided a copy of this book by the author or publisher. All opinions in this review are my own.
Excerpt:
“Do you want to go down to the altar for prayer?” The guy nodded to the front of the auditorium.
Hundreds of people were making their way down to the altar, lining up for prayer. Some at the front were ripping up pieces of paper—the contracts they had made with the Devil. A few people were crying, raising their arms in the air, as people prayed for them.
Aubrey felt like she couldn’t move. She felt like for the first time she was awakened to the truth all around her. To this whole world with God, a world of good and evil that she didn’t know existed.
She thought she was doing a good job, learning about God and reading her Bible, but there was so much she didn’t know. No matter how much good she did, it wasn’t going to cut it if she didn’t fully surrender everything to God. If she didn’t rip up those contracts with the Devil.
She had already surrendered drinking to God, but it was clear she had to surrender everything to God. She had to surrender sex to God.
But there was no way she was going up to the altar in front of everyone. She needed to get out of there. She needed to process this alone.
“No, I’m fine, thank you. Have a great day.” She grabbed her purse and quickly moved past the guy before he could say anything else.
The tears kept falling as she made her way to her car. She didn’t know how to process this. She didn’t know how to surrender everything to God, including sex.
It was clear God had spoken to her today. She couldn’t pretend sex wasn’t a big deal to God. She couldn’t ignore what she had just heard—that she had been letting the Devil control her life for so long and she hadn’t even known.
She had already tried to stop sleeping with Jake, but it hadn’t worked. How was she supposed to stop? She closed her eyes and prayed silently as she made it to her car.
How am I supposed to stop, God? How do I just give up sex? How do I stop the Devil from controlling this area of my life?
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About the Author:
Erin Elise Kiu is passionate about helping women have a transforming relationship with Jesus. After experiencing her own transformation with God and seeing how God wrote her love story, Erin’s mission is to help other women live the fun and holy lives they were created to live while attracting their future husbands along the way.
Erin is an author and blogger at Fun & Holy, a blog and community for women to grow together as they become the women God created them to be. She has also led Bible studies and women’s groups at her church to help women discover their identity and purpose in Christ.
When she’s not writing, you can find Erin on the beach or biking along the coast with her husband in San Diego.
Join the Fun & Holy Community at www.funandholy.com to get free access to women’s Bible studies, spiritual growth tips, and prayer guides to pray for your future husband.
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Beautiful cover and sounds like a beautiful story too.
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