A few weeks ago, I received the first professional book review of my author's career for πππ ππππ§ππ© πππ£π πΎππ§ππ‘π. It was written by Best Thriller Books Reviewer, Teresa Brock, and it was the most amazing and well written review I could have imagined---until now.
Today, Teresa posted another review of The Secret Sand Circle on her Instagram pageβ- fullybookedinkentucky---and I cannot quite wrap my brain around her words and the five stars she gave the book. Posting part of it here with deep gratitude....
The Secret Sand Circle βββββ
by Christina M. Abt
This book is a reminder that we rarely know what others are carrying and that the world could be so much kinder if we remembered that. It honors the courage required to face what hurts and celebrates the slow, brave work of becoming whole.
Christina Abt is an exceptional storyteller and an exceptional woman, and her compassion shines through every line. If you want a novel that stays with you, challenges you to see people more gently, and offers genuine hope alongside hard truths, you absolutely need to pick this up.
Abt should be on everyoneβs radar. She is more than a writer. Christina Abt is the kind of writer whose compassion shapes every page she touches. She listens deeply, writes bravely, and tells stories with a rare blend of honesty and grace. Her insight into human resilience is extraordinary, and itβs clear she understands both the weight people carry and the quiet power of healing.
She is an artist, an advocate, and a force of empathy.
A portion of the proceeds from this book will be used βto help create/help fund peer-to- peer mental health counseling for the counselors who go out into our communities during time of tragedy or disaster and help us get through the trauma of such events. But then when they go back to their desks or to their homes or finish the counseling that the community needs , they carry all that trauma with them with no place to offload it. There are no counselors for the counselors in effect.β
Christina is working with the National Alliance of Mental Illness Buffalo and Western New York (NAMI) in her hometown. One of her books, Beauty & Grace, was chosen by the South Dakota Womenβs Prison Book Club where she was invited to participate in The South Dakota Festival of Books, and allowed to go into the prison and speak to the book club
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