Daisy Chain’s opening sentence grabbed my heart and kept my mind worrying over its characters’ lives long after the story ended. This is one of those books you want to savor, so set aside a day off and absorb the experience of a Mary DeMuth novel!
Mary E. DeMuth has held my interest since her debut in writing. She’s written such excellent parenting books as, Authentic Parenting in a Postmodern Culture, Building the Christian Family You Never Had, and Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God. Her real-to-life fiction carries the message of God’s hope in crisis as seen in Watching the Tree Limbs (2007 Christy Award finalist, ACFW Book of the Year 2nd Place) and Wishing on Dandelions (2007 Retailer’s Choice Award finalist).
Daisy Chain, the first of the Defiance, Texas Trilogy, catapults its reader into the life of fourteen year old Jed Pepper, whose life is stopped in its tracks when his best friend Daisy Chance disappears with only a few clues as to her whereabouts. Jed’s guilt over his part in her disappearance is only a fraction of the tragedies this boy has to face as he learns what the true heart of God is all about.
A partial blurb from the back cover:
Daisy Chain is an achingly beautiful southern coming-of-age story crafted by a bright new literary talent. It offers a haunting yet hopeful backdrop for human depravity and beauty, for terrible secrets and God’s surprising redemption.
Participate in this Blog Tour’s 2 Truths and A Lie Contest
A major theme through Daisy Chain is secrets. As a part of the tour, the tour guides will host a contest based upon the game 2 Truths and a Lie. Following are the rules to participate.
1) By Friday, March 13th, write a blog post or Facebook note that includes two truths about yourself and one lie. Don’t identify which is which, but encourage your visitors to guess in the comments section.
2) If you feel so inclined, tag a few people and encourage others to play along as well.
3) Please reference this tour and Mary’s book, Daisy Chain.
4) Bloggers, put a link to your post into Mr. Linky on the Blog Tour Spot Daisy Chain Tour post: http://www.blogtourspot.com/2009/03/daisy-chain-blog-tour/. If you are using Facebook, leave a message on the wall of the Daisy Chain Tour Event. All other participants can leave a comment on the Blog Tour Spot Daisy Chain Tour post (above). IMPORTANT: Only those posts and notes entered through Mr. Linky, the tour post, or the Facebook event will be considered in the contest.
5) On Monday, March 16th, reveal which fact was a lie. Mary will determine the contest winner later that week.
The prize? Signed (and kissed!) copies of Watching the Tree Limbs, Wishing on Dandelions, and Daisy Chain, as well as bragging rights of being the winner. (Maybe we’ll even come up with a badge you can proudly display.)
Important Links!
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Thank you so much for hosting Daisy Chain on your blog. I appreciate it. Your blog is beautiful.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity! I so admire your message and it was my privilege to be able to read your latest and review it here! May God continue to bless your writing and your future!
Hmm…sounds like my kind of book! I wish I would have visited earlier to do the book blog.
You’d love it, Leticia. Keep an eye out for it in the stores or hound your librarian to get it. Do you have a good Christian book selection at the library? We do, which is amazing for our small town America!
Mary, we don’t have a Christian section, they are all mixed in with the other books. So what I do is write down the authors names find them on my own. If they don’t have a certain book, I just have to request it and they get it.
ILL is wonderful, isn’t it?
Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo
Good luck Raiul! I’m impressed, your English is pretty good already! ;O)
Thanks for the comment!
Mary, I like you blog posts, this also a good one read at all. your writing skills is easy to understand.