emileereadsbooks 's review for:

A Lineage of Grace by Francine Rivers

3.0

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This book has taken me much longer than normal to read. I’m not quite sure why, but perhaps because I had to sit with some of the stories longer to really think about how much truth I found in them. One reason I had to sit longer with these stories is because I have listened to The Bible Binge podcast which has covered most (if not all) of these stories. Listening to them bring levity and context to these stories (in their hilariously informative manner) on their podcast made reading this book interesting because I think the book greatly romanticized and glossed over some cultural realities and made these “love stories” too neat and tidy. Granted, God regularly brings good out of tragedy, but these situations weren’t as polished and black and white as Rivers paints them to be.