When Tides Turn

The Waves of Freedom, Book 3

By: Sarah Sundin

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

When fun-loving glamour girl Quintessa Beaumont learns that the Navy has established the WAVES program for women, she enlists, determined to throw off her frivolous ways and contribute to the war effort.

No-nonsense Lieutenant Dan Avery, hoping to make admiral, has been using his skills to fight German U-boats. The last thing he wants to see on his radar is a girl like Tess.

For her part, Tess works hard to prove her worth in the Antisubmarine Warfare Unit in Boston - both to her commanding officers and to the man with whom she is smitten.

When Dan is assigned to a new escort carrier at the peak of the Battle of the Atlantic, he is torn between his lifelong career goals and his desire to help Tess root out a possible spy on shore. The Germans put up quite a fight, but he wages a deeper battle within his heart. Could Tess be the one for him?

Sarah Sundin carries listeners through the rough waters of love in a time when every action might have unforeseen world-changing consequences.

©2017 Sarah Sundin (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Great Book/Great Series

Sarah Sundin does an amazing job of finishing up her series surrounding the lives of several members of our US Navy on this Waves of Freedom series

Positive Review Here

As a fan of historical fiction, this WWII story was very enjoyable. Some of the descriptions about ships seemed to drag, but the story continued on.

Informative and Very Interesting!!!

Excellent character development and also gave me a better idea of how important the Navy was to winning the war for the Allies in Europe.

Good story with some issues

I liked this story but thought some noteworthy issues detracted from it. I first noticed this in a previous book. Sarah Sundin's main characters have what I believe are unhealthy and unscriptural insecurities. The leading lady often refers to herself as selfish for simple things like having legitimate needs and desires. Even though God knows our needs and desires, Jesus taught us to ask, never referring to it as selfish. The Bible says to let your requests be made known to God. At one part in the book, the author teaches a character that people cannot know our needs unless we tell them, yet the leading lady chastises herself often for letting any needs or desires be known. The Bible teaches that God opens his hand and satisfies the desire of every living thing, and that if we delight ourselves in the Lord, he will give us the desires of our heart. Jesus said that we must ask, then we will receive; we must seek; we must knock. If God, who knows our needs, requires that we ask them of Him, how much more do we need to ask for things from people who do not know our needs and desires. Labeling the character's thoughts and actions to get her needs and desires met as selfish seems shame-based and unscriptural. A codependent person works very hard to get other people's needs met, and never their own. As if other people’s needs are valid and worthy but their's are not. The Bible says we should look to the needs of others as well as our own.

The leading man also does not speak up for his needs, and his self recriminations consist of telling himself that his confidence is arrogance. He chastises himself for speaking the truth. Jesus brought grace AND truth. Both are necessary and contain a balance. The Bible teaches us to speak the truth in love, and God let's us reap what we sow until we repent. How unloving is it to not let us know when we are doing something wrong? Scripture says that God requires of us to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God. Walking humbly with God means speaking up for the truth even when it’s uncomfortable.

I agree totally when the characters seek God’s leading and follow as He leads, but an author's imagination of how He leads and how He actually leads can be two different things. God brings good out of bad situations, and even from our mistakes, so we cannot look to good outcomes to evaluate whether we actually followed God. We must do that through scripture and prayer.

Some of the book, while very interesting, had too many technical things without adequate definitions or explanations. Partly it’s in the way the narrator reads it. A lot of data.

Tha narrator needs to work on her male voices. Her acting is fairly good, except that she lacks some of the depth of emotion as written in the manuscript. Some of her intonations were bothersome, but she's better than some I've made myself listen to.

Nice story

This one was better and more interesting than the last one I read in this series. Sometimes the narrator sounds pious and not natural.

Great!

Loved the story and performance! I felt that the artist reading the story seemed to have a very peppy voice/story telling style. It lent well to the main character most of the time, but definitely caught me off guard in the darker/more serious moments of the story. Kind of like an upbeat song playing in the background the whole story- fit for most of it but felt confusing at some parts. Overall was an uplifting and clever! Left me seeking for more!

Amazing

I loved this book! It drew me in and I became invested in these characters, my heart skipped a beat a times or raced waiting to find out what happened. It is a great listen! Loved every single second of it.

Wonderful end to a favorite series.

Sarah Sundin weaves impeccable research with memorable characters. What a good story;must read for historical fiction fans.

Christian Historical Romance

I don't necessarily agree with ALL the Biblical discussions in this book, but encouraging a day of rest to a workaholic was a way to explain a big character flaw and necessarily to the storyline.
The rest of the story was fascinating and endearing except the spy parts. Those were just fascinating. Lol!
Being retired Navy myself, I was really drawn to the beginning of women in service to our country. If it wasn't for programs like the WAVES created in war time, we would still be fighting some big fights towards women serving!
Thanks for doing amazing research and blending historical people and events with fictional of the same to move the story along while giving us all a history lesson.
The narrator was amazing! I can speak for her French, but I loved everything about her. The voices, cadence, clarity, were all excellent!

Solid Book

Although this wasn’t my favorite title from Sundin, I enjoyed this book a lot. The reader was excellent and the plot kept turning. I will always recommend Sundins books and this was a good one. I also like that I can read them with my 13 year old who likes some romance but keeps it clean and with biblical morals.