The Sound of Rain

The Sound of Rain by Anita Stansfield





This is the first book in a new trilogy by Anita Stansfield. Jayson Wolfe is a musically gifted teen. He has just moved to a new state and is making lasting relationships with those he meets through his music. Jayson thus far, is not an LDS character. Nor are any of the other characters........for those of you not wanting to read LDS fiction. Jayson has had some very hard times in his upbrining and is facing many more as the book continues. The relationships are sincere and clean.


The author has a distinct writing style throughout all of her books. You can always tell that you are reading her material. She seems to use the same phrases or words such as; perfect or perfect joy, peruse, buffer. She uses the same adjectives a lot. Her characters are always talkers. Sometimes they talk too much. They are also always thinkers. Sometimes they think too much. She seemed to strike a better balance in this book than some other her other recent endeavors.


I have taken a lot of flack for reading this author, among friends and relatives. Guess what? I don't care. I enjoy that Anita is a clean, yet romantic author. She deals with some timely issues in most of her writing (death, divorce, illness, mental illness, blended families, pornoghraphy, premarital sex, addiction, abuse, responsibility............). Her female characters are strong yet not femenists. A character trait I detest. Her male characters are strong, good role models, gentlemen and emotional. I realize she is no Bronte sister, but she is still entertaining and uplifting.
I am excited to see what the next book holds in store for the characters.

I rate this book a 4.

I also give it a G +. It is clean, clean, clean language wise. She does deal with sexual issues (ie. chastity) so I wouldn't hand this book over to my little kids. But it is totally clean.