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A review by calebmatthews
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
5.0
Wow! I can’t believe it, but I think this book has to be a five. There are some things that are a little too much for me, but the story was incredibly well written. I loved these characters and how each of them has their own struggles. Even Michael who is portrayed as such a man of God really grapples with his anger. Sarah struggles in a way that feels real. I gasped when reading the final part where Paul and Angel are talking in the House of Magdalena and Angel thinks that Miriam had Michael’s child. I could not put this book down.
I like God in this book a lot, but sometimes I have to admit that God seemed to feel too much like a wise-old Morgan Freeman than I cared for. I didn’t care for the directness in which God would speak to the characters. I think that is because I have always experienced God as a feeling more than exact words. Anyways, these last little critiques almost made me say this book was a 4, but I have to give it a 5. It said it was a Christian romanced and it DELIVERED!
Favorite parts:
Susannah’s God Box - a box where you put the worries that don’t belong to you
“Because for some of us, a mile can be harder to walk than thirty.” - From when Angel decides that she is wrong and needs to go back to Michael and admits that by walking the mile back to his house rather than the 30 back to Pair-a-Dice.
“Seventy times Seven.” - From when Michael is having trouble forgiving and God keeps answering with the same phrase.
I like God in this book a lot, but sometimes I have to admit that God seemed to feel too much like a wise-old Morgan Freeman than I cared for. I didn’t care for the directness in which God would speak to the characters. I think that is because I have always experienced God as a feeling more than exact words. Anyways, these last little critiques almost made me say this book was a 4, but I have to give it a 5. It said it was a Christian romanced and it DELIVERED!
Favorite parts:
Susannah’s God Box - a box where you put the worries that don’t belong to you
“Because for some of us, a mile can be harder to walk than thirty.” - From when Angel decides that she is wrong and needs to go back to Michael and admits that by walking the mile back to his house rather than the 30 back to Pair-a-Dice.
“Seventy times Seven.” - From when Michael is having trouble forgiving and God keeps answering with the same phrase.