The Two Collars (The Bracken Series)

Love this book. My students love this one and THE BRIDGE - another one by this author. This is such a great book to teach analogies and metaphors.

This was always my favorite installment of this set. I felt it showed vividly how someone can be a slave to sin.

This trilogy is a great read. Quick ship by the seller. Thank you!

I read this book several times as a child because I loved the descriptions and details the author gave that brought the story alive for me. This book helped me stand up for myself as a young girl.

To be clear, this third and last book in the Bracken Trilogy is quite different from the first two books in the series, but there is a reason for the change. It can throw a reader off at first, but it is a slowly forming tapestry of words, that eventually form into a most exquisite masterpiece to end the series.It seems to bring together the loose strings, especially, of the one constant character in all three books: The woman in gray. While the other books concentrate on a perspective of the woman in gray taken from the eyes of royalty. This one is from the perspective of one rescued and cared for by her.There is such beauty that emanates through the love woven between the woman and her ward, and their adventures in learning skills, to trust, to be truthful but dependable, and in the journey of maturing and finding purpose in what appears to be hopelessness and being patient through long waiting for good things to come.Lessons, as in the other two books, are scattered throughout, as well as some practical knowledge beneficial to, and considered life skills, for any young reader.I cannot say it enough, thirty years of waiting has brought me together again with these book-friends, and just as these characters and stories blessed me in my childhood, they blessed me all over again in these days. How grateful I am.I highly recommend this series!!!