BOOK REVIEW - Redeeming love

[homesteadmamma]

By Christian author Francine Rivers.

California's gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside.

Then she meets Michael Hosea

A man who seeks his Father's heart in everything. Michael Hosea obeys God's call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel's every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance, her frozen heart begins to thaw. But with her unexpected softening come overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband's pursuing love, terrifed of the truth she no longer can deny. Her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael Hosea does...the One who will never let her go.

A powerful retelling of the book of Hosea...Redeeming Love is a life-changing story of God's unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love

This is the first time I've read a River's book and I'm totally sold on her writing. This book is one of the most powerful loves stories I've ever read. Its a book you can't put down once you start and leaves you hungering for more.

I would highly recommend this book to everyone. And I would wish that every person making a commitment to marriage would have this has required reading.

[Katybird]

Thanks for the review. I will keep an eye out for this book, it sounds like one that I want to read.