breathehopebooks 's review for:

A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers

4.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I truly do not care one iota for

Atretes’s

storyline until the very end, and even then only in context to

Julia and Hadassah.

And i completely forgot about how historically accurate this story is in its details of Roman/Ephesian culture. It was really hard to read at times but it was very thoroughly researched, and we’ll just leave it at that…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Murder, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, Trafficking, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

This is Christian fiction; however, it’s meant to be more evangelical, and I would be hesitant to recommend to more reserved readers because of how intense the content is. I would definitely say it’s accurate in its atrocities and horrifying at how nonchalant many of the characters are by their actions and culture, but such was the time period. Stick around for the character growth and the relationship between

Hadassah and Marcus

but if you’re a Christian and find yourself truly upset by the content, then i’d move on.