PECULIAR TREASURES
Katie Weldon Series, Book One
Robin Jones Gunn
Zondervan
Fiction
ISBN: 9780310276562
301 pages

As Katie Weldon attends her best friend Christy Miller’s wedding, she can’t help but think about her own love life. In PECULIAR TREASURES, the first book in Robin Jones Gunn’s new Katie Weldon series, Katie works hard to catch the wedding bouquet in hopes that her slow-moving, undefined relationship with Rick Doyle might begin to speed up. However, Katie quickly notices that Rick seems less than enthusiastic about the bouquet attempt.

Romance isn’t the only thing on Katie’s mind. At the ceremony, she is approached about the possibility of a job as a resident assistant at her university. While everyone thinks she’d be perfect for the job, Katie begins to wonder if she’s really ready to give up her social life for the year. Not to mention that it would mean having to quit her job at the Dove’s Nest, where she conveniently gets to spend her days with gorgeous Rick.

After Katie decides to take the position as an RA, her life becomes more complicated than she ever imagined. She’s had a big crush on Rick since high school, and now that he’s finally her “almost-boyfriend,” she thought she was ready to solidify their complicated relationship. But now they appear to be drifting farther apart than ever. With the RA job taking up her days and nights, it looks like a relationship is the last thing she has time for. And when they do manage to spend any time with each other, it seems to always end in disaster.

Luckily, Christy soon returns home from her honeymoon and is able to give Katie some wise advice from a married woman. And it looks like Katie will need it, too. Rick is faced with a promising business opportunity, which might be taking him far away from her. And he seems to have been getting quite a bit of attention from an unrelenting female. Between trying to figure out her relationship with Rick, fulfilling her duties as an RA and hoping to graduate on time, Katie’s senior year will be anything but relaxing!

PECULIAR TREASURES is the first book in the latest (and third) spinoff series of Robin Jones Gunn’s original Christy Miller series. Fans of the earlier series will no doubt be excited to catch up with the familiar characters. The book picks up right where the last series, Christy and Todd: The College Years, left off, and gives the reader glimpses into unresolved storylines, such as Christy and Todd’s marriage, and Doug and Tracy’s baby. Newcomers might find themselves confused or uninterested in the sometimes complicated and, by this point, very developed characters. However, that is certainly not to say that the book can’t stand on its own.

All in all, PECULIAR TREASURES is a very enjoyable read and continues a story that fans will be glad has returned.

   --- Reviewed by Jennifer Crosby

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