Wiley Baxter’s book Chocolate Covered Cashews is the story of Wiley’s life. It starts with a situation where he was surprised by God and he tells the story of how he found out that he was a father of twin daughters. It’s a very interesting story and how it takes place when he goes into a candy store to buy chocolate covered cashews. He then goes on to share various points in his life of struggles and a divorce and moments working when nearly lost his life. He shares God’s truth right through the stories and he expresses his love and devotion to God. He also expresses his desire for his readers to not make the same mistakes he did . The scripture he uses is encouraging and his stories are funny at times and heartwarming . Then there are those that are scary and sad but show how God has spared his life and he shares honestly his struggles with him trusting God and understanding where he fits in with these twin daughters
This book is a super easy read and only took me a short time to finish I finished it in one evening I enjoyed this book because it was like sitting across the table from a grandpa or an uncle or even a member from our church who was sharing their life story. It’s not too detailed but in the same respect it gives you a real cross-section of Wiley’s life. I thoroughly enjoyed it
After reading this book I appreciated Wiley’s perspective on life and I thought it was written with a true heart, however he did have some flaws. I think that it is written choppy and that it can be hard to understand at some points . Such as: how the first part the first chapter of the book how can fit with the rest of the book he starts with the story of finding out that he ihas twin daughters and then he moves on to the rest of his life starting with his his parents and how they met and then growing up in through his years when perhaps it would’ve fit better if we if you would have started with his younger years first and worked up to and build up to that moment where he discovered that he had twin daughters. It is called chocolate covered cashews because that’s what started out as the catalyst for him finding out he had twin daughters. There seemed to be some question by others as to why it was called that. I give it 4 out 5 stars solely on the choppiness of the book. Outside of that it is amusing, encouraging book. I would recommend it!
I recieved a complimentary copy of Chocolate Covered Cashews in PDF format from BookLook Bloggers for review purposes and in no way am I expected to give a positive review nor am I paid for such a review.
