A review by karibaumann
Fields of Grace: Faith, Friendship, and the Day I Nearly Lost Everything by Hannah Luce

3.0

Hannah Luce is the daughter of Ron Luce, the founder of Teen Mania. This is the story of her life as the daughter of a very public ministry figure as well as the plane crash she survived last year which took the life of four of her friends. Hannah’s story was familiar to me–one of the chapters was titled “Growing Up Evangelical” and I remember attending a Teen Mania event once–but it was written so soon after the plane crash that there wasn’t really a lot of time to reflect on how it changed her beyond the immediate loss of her friends and the extensive burns she suffered. She spent quite a bit of the book expressing ambivalence (at best) about her father’s ministry without discussing what her relationship with her parents is now, which felt like a gaping hole. An interesting and compelling story marred by a rushed ending without a lot of resolution. Recommended for: former teen maniacs.