I received a copy for review purposes. All opinions are honest and mine alone.
Book three and the final installment of the Tupelo Grove series, WHEN JUSTICE COMES is another product of the joint efforts between Colleen Cobble and Rick Acker. It can be read as a standalone thanks to the author duo providing enough fill-in-the-blank information. Of course, reading the entire series will always be the best experience!
Hez and Savannah have been doing battle with every evil human being their small town and families can muster up. It cost them their marriage, sibling, child, business, parents. In this installation, they are trying to make right for all the wrong done by their families, save the university and protect it from her father, adopt her nephew and protect him from his grandfather and heal the many rifts within their families.
Sounds like a day in the park, eh? Not so much with the constant barrage of turmoil thrown at this couple. As far as I’m concerned, it was too much for too long with too many razor’s edge rescues. What could have been exciting and thrilling became Saturday at the five dollar theatre.
By the time this couple managed a somewhat happy ending, I wasn’t all that interested, weary from the journey. The faith elements were subtle. There were mentions of praying for help early on in the story but then the characters moved out in their own strength. God reappears during the final few chapters of intense action and resolution: “God, help…God, please, God, no!” and so forth; a very different kind of prayer.
The on sale date for this book isn’t until March 3, 2026. Perhaps there’s still fine tuning being done.
Recommended for those who like clean, small town, light thriller, suspense titles with complicated family mysteries and relationships📚
Read and Reviewed from a NetGalley eARC via Kindle with thanks