Hidden Things (Faded Photographs #2) - Andrea Boeshaar

I'm back after a two and a half week road trip.  It was fun, but I didn't get a lot of reading done. In fact, I only finished one book - quite unusual for me!

I picked Hidden Things up, because I'd seen it up for free more than once, and I was intrigued by the cover and the description.  I'm a genealogy nut, and one of the things I truly enjoy is going through old photographs.  I saw potential with this new author and started reading.

This is an older series, but there are three books.  The first is called Broken Things, then there's this one, and the series wraps up with Precious Things.  The weird thing is, you can't even read Precious Things at this time.  The other two titles were converted for Kindle in April 2016, but for some reason, the last one got left out.  I found that odd and annoying at the same time.

Kylie has had it rough lately.  Her mother has passed away, and her fiance has cheated on her with her best friend.  Add a mysterious photograph to the mix, and Kylie begins to question everything about her life.  She finds out she's adopted and goes on a personal quest to discover the truth.

I guess the main character is Kylie, but we're reading a lot of different POVs in this book. There's a friend of Kylie's deceased mother, a woman who has come though a horrific accident and is struggling, Kylie's grandmother, and TJ, the man who is friends with Kylie's grandparents.  There might be one or two more, I can't remember.

One thing that really bothered me: these books are connected.  I was reading along, the hint of an actual discovery about Kylie's past was on the horizon, and then I looked to see where I was in the book.  There were only a few pages left!  Where's the resolution to Kylie's quest to find out who she is?  From the description, it sounds like the answers are in book 3...

If I had known this was one of those cliffhanger, nothing gets resolved series, I wouldn't have picked this one up to begin with.  Especially since I can't even really finish the series (I guess technically I could order a DTB, but I'm not going to).  Add to that the amount of sermonizing, and I was over it.  I don't mind Christian books having a lot of spiritual references in them, but this one was a bit over the top in my opinion.  The writing itself wasn't bad, but I didn't like the way the book ended without a satisfying resolution.  It's a pass for me.