TOMORROW MAY NEVER COME
B
September 2003
SYNOPSIS: From the author of the acclaimed LADIES IN WAITING comes a moving and heartfelt story about the importance of redemption.
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE: (4) Tricia-Anne Blades
REVIEW: True prayer rises naturally from the hearts of those are joined to Jesus. It is an expression of personal and intimate relationship with God. This aptly describes TOMORROW MAY NEVER COME. This novel is steeped in the theme of prayer and relishes in the power thereof. Ms. Hudson-Smith has effectively shown that the “earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available (dynamic in its working)” James 5:16{Amplified}. Her characters are intertwined through love, past failures, future hopes and prayer. As the apostles operated in one accord so too have the characters within this novel.
The novel creates an atmosphere of expectancy from the beginning. The passion Isaiah Reynolds Morrel feels is unmatched. Anger fuels his passion and anger fuels his need to make connection with the missing piece of the puzzle which he calls life. Ms Hudson Smith’s spirited dialogue keeps the reader in suspense and anxious to discover more of this character. Isaiah’s passion propels him and even when he is faced with the most trying time of his life, he is able, with the encouragement to see his situation in a different life and improve his circumstances.
Passion, pain and prayer aptly describes the man who holds and maintains the pivotal role within the novel and his family. Nicholas Reynolds is a mighty man of God; with a relationship so strong that is proven in the way he calls upon His Creator no matter the circumstance. The various types of prayer at the appropriate times rain from his lips. Casting his cares, supplication with thanksgiving and for God to lead and direct his paths. His passion and pain is tied to his unrequited love. So deep is his love, time cannot and does not erase. He now has so much more to love and is willing to do so passionately.
Sacrificial in her loving is the strong, formidable black woman in the character of Asia Morrel. Herein lies a woman who literally lays down her life in order to ensure that another develops the potential that she saw seeping from his pores. This decision, apparently wise in her own eyes robbed her and those closest to her of twenty two years of discovery, love and happiness. This fills her with regret and leaves her to fight the ghost of the past and the wholeness of the future.
Where there is love and forgiveness coupled with prayer; the enemy always finds a way of testing a spirit who is grounded in their belief in the power of prayer. Miranda Reynolds is the character that has yielded herself to the enemy’s plan. She uses her position to wield her power. She allows the Jezebel spirit to take over and uses subtle control to attack her targets. However she has forgotten a house divided against itself cannot stand! She shoots her deadly arrows but the shield of faith is well prepared and in position to quench her “fiery darts.”
The novel is a beautiful rendition of love and forgiveness, victory and defeat; war and peace. It reads like a musical with the clanging of the cymbals in the beginning to the soothing tones of the violin to the hush of still moonlit night where the drums are heard in the distance speaking the message of the hearts of men intertwined; proving tomorrow can come again.
tricia@romanceincolor.com (14th October 2003)