Review: All for a Song

Dorothy Lynn Dunbar comes from a small town, and it seems her path in life is already laid out: she is engaged to the pastor who took over her father's pulpit and has a solid place in her church and community.  But when she visits her sister in the big city of St. Louis, Dorothy Lynn begins to wonder what her life could be like if she moved away from her hometown of Heron's Nest.  By chance she hears a woman evangelist speaking one night and is offered the chance to travel with her team and sing on stage.  Dorothy Lynn loves to write music and sing, but she never dreamed of performing for anyone.  But when the chance to help find her brother in California opens up, she packs up and joins the evangelist's group.  She promises her fiance she will return, but when she finds herself in California, will things change?

While the writing of All for a Song was good and the plot interesting, there were a few parts about the storyline that the author simply glossed over.  Dorothy Lynn's confusing and ambiguous relationship with one of the male characters is never really fully developed or explained, and at the end of the book, the reader is wondering just what actually happened between the two.  The writing method shifts between present day and the Roaring Twenties, where the bulk of the book takes place.  I liked this method of delivering the story, but at the end the book somehow felt rather incomplete, like I was waiting for one final thought to tie up all the loose ends. 

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