Review: "Original Cyn" by Sylvia Dickey Smith (Guest Reviewer Earl Staggs)

Please welcome back prolific author, occasional reviewer, and all around good guy Earl Staggs to the blog today as he takes a look at Original Cyn by Sylvia Dickey Smith. If you are not familiar with her, Sylvia also wrote the Sidra Smart Series as well as A War Of Her Own and survived relocating to Arkansas.

ORIGINAL CYN by Sylvia Dickey Smith

Reviewed by Earl Staggs

When the preacher is in his pulpit and his dutiful wife sits in the front row performing as his support and helpmate, their lives seem perfect and full. When the sermon is over, Cyn Carter’s life is far from full and she doesn’t know why. Why does she feel that over the years her life was sucked dry and she

became an empty shell? The answer comes suddenly in an avalanche of revelations which turn her life not only upside down but inside out. She finds herself flooded in a tsunami of truths about love, sex, marriage, hypocrisy and narrow-minded intolerance and is forced into a challenging journey of examination and discovery.
 
Sylvia Dickey Smith is uniquely qualified to write a story as powerful and revealing as this one. Like Cyn, she was a pastor’s wife for a number of years. At the same time, while raising four children and still serving as the pastor’s wife and missionary, she earned a BA in Sociology and a Masters in Educational Psychology. This led her to a new career in private practice as a licensed professional counselor and marriage and family therapist.

Her next career goal was to become a writer. In the process of writing a successful and highly praised series of novels and becoming a state and national award winning novelist, she found her niche in creating strong female characters forced to face overwhelming adversity.

In ORIGINAL CYN, she has combined her psychological education and experience as a professional counselor with her writing skill and crafted a compelling story that will keep any reader turning pages.

This book is highly recommended for both men and women.

Original Cyn

Sylvia Dickey Smith

http://www.sylviadickeysmith

Oya House Publishing

(self-published)

October 2014

ISBN# 978-0692259290

Print (e-book version available)

288 Pages

$14.95

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Earl Staggs earned a long list of Five Star reviews for his novels MEMORY OF A MURDER and JUSTIFIED ACTION and has twice received a Derringer Award for Best Short Story of the Year.  He served as Managing Editor of Futures Mystery Magazine, as President of the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars. 

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