Rehoboth Road

Rating:
Summary: Secrets can destroy
Review: Children are a precious gift from God and they should be nurtured and protected. Imagine how you'd feel if you failed to protect your gift from heaven. In REHOBOTH ROAD, we meet the Turners, the Olivers and MaDear. These unforgettable characters tell a story of lost innocence, familial love, Christianity and that old time caring of a community. This story begins in the 1950's on Rehoboth Road in a rural community just outside Macon, Georgia. And for the next thirty-six years or so, we follow the growth of two families as they deal individually with a secret that works like a cancer as it touches each one of them.

Anita Ballard-Jones uses her excellent storytelling abilities to capture the disposition of the African American culture in rural communities during the 50's and 60's. She told a very inspirational and heartrending story. I could not put this one down, as I soaked up the essence of the characters and lived through the pain inflicted because of one man's sin. There were times I cried because of that pain and other times I rejoiced because of the healing that occurred. REHOBOTH ROAD is a stimulating read and I highly recommend it.

Reviewed by Brenda M. Lisbon
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

Rating:
Summary: Please Read This Book!
Review: Reading this book gave me a colorful view of life and the social norms in the 1950s (and beyond). As one used to reading contemporary romance novels, this book was an excellent diversion.

Ballard-Jones has done a wonderful job of encapsulating the chain of events on Rehoboth Road over a period of years. While it was easy reading, it had a powerful and poignant message.

I whole-heartedly encourage all readers, regardless of your preferred genre, to read this thought-provoking book and experience it. The vivid portrayal of what fear, denial and lies can do to you, will definitely bring you to your knees!

Buy the Book!!!!!!!!!

Rating:
Summary: Please Read This Book!
Review: Reading this book gave me a colorful view of life and the social norms in the 1950s (and beyond). As one used to reading contemporary romance novels, this book was an excellent diversion.

Ballard-Jones has done a wonderful job of encapsulating the chain of events on Rehoboth Road over a period of years. While it was easy reading, it had a powerful and poignant message.

I whole-heartedly encourage all readers, regardless of your preferred genre, to read this thought-provoking book and experience it. The vivid portrayal of what fear, denial and lies can do to you, will definitely bring you to your knees!

Buy the Book!!!!!!!!!

Rating:
Summary: A must read from this new author.
Review: Set in rural Georgia, Rehoboth Road is just outside of Macon, Georgia. Here we are introduced to Rev. Turner, his wife Loretha and their 2 beautiful daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah. Rev. Turner's girls are the epitomy of goodness, until Elizabeth life takes a drastic turn. The theft of her innocence is an ordeal that has her racked with shame.

In the beginning Elizabeth decides to endure it alone, telling no one but Mrs. Collins, who later becomes affectionately known as "MaDear". Racked by this unbearable shame, Elizabeth is afraid to tell her parents because she believes the culprit of this most unspeakable crime is someone they would never believe could have committed such an act.

But seven months later her "secret" is out. After the birth of her son Johnny, 'Lizbeth" as she is affectionately known, reveals to her parents who Johnny's father is and how he came to be - the product of a rape. Being that her mother and MaDear are her only allies - Lizabeth begins her new life as a single mother at 16.

Rehoboth Road is a wonderful book that makes the readers test their own thoughts of faith and trust. It allows the reader to go through a gamut of emotions beginning with shock and going all the way to
triumph - experiencing great joy and satisfaction in the final outcome, restoring one's faith.

A must read from this new author.

Reviewer: Michelle Henley