Monday, September 11, 2017

Will Not See by Chautona Havig---GIVEAWAY!!!!

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When Vikki Jeffries wakes up in a Rockland hotel with no idea of who she is and why she can’t remember… well, anything, the Rockland medical community begins to take a closer look at what may have happened to cause a second case of inexplicable amnesia.
But for Vikki, this is more than a medical anomaly–it’s her life. What is she doing in Rockland, thousands of miles away from her home in Apache Junction, Arizona? Who is she? Why is no one looking for her? Or are they?
Will Not See: Not everything is as it seems.






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Here are my thoughts.....
Chautona definitely has a way with words and Will Not See is no exception. This story is very different than the first book None So Blind, which of course is a good thing. You wouldn't want to read a book that seems like the same story with different names

Vikki is in a different spot in her life than Ella was, she's completely alone and without a friend to help her. I really enjoyed how Ella helped Vikki and how Chautona built their relationship. I also really enjoyed the character Brandon. I liked how very real he was with real struggles and real feelings. Not your cookie cutter always perfect Christian that you sometimes see in Christian fiction.

This story did take a little longer for me to get into but once I did I couldn't wait to see what happened. I have only two real negatives for the book. The dialogue in the book is extremely choppy and confusing at times. It is very distracting in the first half of the book but didn't keep me from an overall understanding of the story. The second issue is with the term cray cray. It is used several times through out the book and it just didn't seem like a term that anybody would use.

Overall for me this was a really good story with an ending that has me dying to read book 3! I can't wait to see where this story ends up and how Chautona wraps it all up. This series is definitely worth the read and I recommend starting with book 1. Thank you to Chautona and Celebrate lit for the free copy of this book to review. A positive review was not required. all opinions are my own.


4 stars/ I really liked it





Book title: Will Not See
Author: Chautona Havig
Publisher: Wynneword House
Release date: August 29, 2017
Genre: Christian Fiction / contemporary / suspense (light)

About the Author

media-headshotAuthor of the Amazon bestselling Aggie and Past Forward Series, Chautona Havig lives and writes in California’s Mojave Desert. With dozens of books to her name, Chautona spends most of her time writing, but when she takes the rare break, she can be found reading, sewing, paper crafting, or sleeping and dreaming of finishing the dozens of books swirling in her overly-active imagination at any given moment






Guest Post from Chautona Havig

The circle of death swirls on the screen and it shifts. The bank balance appears, and with it, my heart sinks. It’s been a tough few months, financially. The bottom line proves it.
My reaction? Inhale. Exhale. “Okay, now we know the worst. We can do something about it.”
My husband, on the other hand, suffers a definite blow. Kevin might not sleep that night. Instead, he’ll mull over what we could have done differently, how we can make changes, if he’s a failure at this thing called life. He’ll pray—for hours.
They say ignorance is bliss. And sometimes, that’s true. It’s also a personality thing, I think. I tend to be a “let me have your worst” kind of gal. But when the negative arrives, I also tend to want to shield Kevin from it all. I don’t know how he can worry so much. He can’t fathom how I can turn it off.
But sometimes those personality things go deeper—into what can be serious faults. It has been said,
“There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.”
Or, in the words of Jeremiah,
“Now hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.”

What does this have to do with not seeing?

As I work on the Sight Unseen series, one recurring theme happens, of course. Memory loss—the removal of all insight into one’s past. You can hear who you were, be informed of what you did and why others think you did it, but you can’t know your own self the way you once did. It’s a fresh slate, and it can be a good thing in some respects.
Those around you can now see the difference between habits and personality traits—true dislikes and those conditioned by life. What might have been a fear once could be gone if the cause of that fear is blotted out.
But even for these fictional characters, truth doesn’t change. In None So Blind, Ella takes her memory loss and uses it as an opportunity to reinvent herself, if you will. And you know what? If you asked her family about it, they’d tell you that it fits her personality. That take-charge, gotta get ’er done attitude Dani may have used in different ways, but both “manifestations” of the woman had those qualities. Sure, Ella’s was tempered by recent experience, but not much.

Vikki Jeffries, is almost the antithesis of Ella in that respect.

The past is in the past. It scares her. Is it because she doesn’t know it? Because she’s frightened by the unknown? We don’t know. But what we do know is anything associated with that past, even the few very personal items she finds, she rejects. It’s as if ignorance of them will protect her from them. Where Ella runs to face her problems, Vikki runs from them.
But despite those differences, I find it interesting that both women did the same thing, basically—just at different times.
Before her “episode,” Ella chose to blind herself to her faults. She knew them. Lived with them daily, but couldn’t face or address them. So, she “refused to see.”
Vikki—we don’t know. But I think the story shows that she couldn’t blind herself to truth before her episode. As much as she might have ached to, she just couldn’t. Now that the opportunity is here, however, she grasps it and if she insists on squeezing her eyes shut indefinitely, it may cost her everything—her life. Her soul.

Philippians 4:8, “…whatever is true.”

They say ignorance is bliss. Well, “they” also say, “Truth hurts.” And sometimes it does. But so do the consequences of that ignorance. I guess the next time the bank balance dips low, I won’t be handling the fallout alone. Then again, one can always pray that it doesn’t dip low! I think we’ll start there.

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Giveaway

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To celebrate her tour, Chautona is giving away a grand prize of the None So Blind Paperback,
the Will Not See Paperback, a Journaling Bible (Choice of KJV or NLT), Prismacolor Pencils,
and a Christian Hymns Album!! Click below to enter. Be sure to comment on this post before you enter to claim 9 extra entries!

4 comments:

  1. Trust me. I'm with you on cray-cray. I HATE that phrase. It was so hard to write. I had to force myself to get it in there the eight times I did. Yes. I counted them. Every single time, I wanted to scream, "Just say CRAZY, why don't you?" But then that's what I want to scream when I hear someone say it in the store, in Denny's... in writing groups...

    AAAAK. Thanks for reviewing!

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  2. This "cray-cray" discussion had me laughing! I'm definitely not a fan of it!

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  3. I must not hear much slang--I've never heard that expression except in this book! It fit Vikki's lifestyle, though.

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  4. One of my best friends says "Cray cray" often and it drives ME cray-cray. UGH.
    I also don't like books with too much dialogue.

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