Title: Unshaken
Series: Lineage of Grace
Author: Francine Rivers
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Release Date: 2001-01
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 185

WrensReads Review:

Honestly, I love Francine Rivers’ writing with all my heart.

She is so on FIRE for Christ and you can see that buried in her words.

This series is an interesting one that I would recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about the Bible and those stories about women. She puts her own twist on her versions on this story, but she doesn’t take out any truth to the story. What I mean by that is even though we don’t know it happened the way she wrote it, doesn’t mean it didn’t actually happen the way she wrote it. She didn’t take anything out of the Bible.

So this whole series is about women in the Bible that are in the line of Christ.

WOMEN.

That’s important because the Bible doesn’t talk about girls too often because back then all us women were good for is babies and sex.

*a very dramatic eye roll in inserted right here in this review*

Ruth… I wish I had your servant’s heart.

You are so dedicated to your mother-in-law even after your husband dies. She tells you to stay you go where she goes. She tells you to live your life and you make her your life. You become a beggar just to help her survive.

It seemed to come just so easily for you. I want your heart. You are a true role model.

That’s why Boaz noticed you, you HAVE to realize.

You washed his feet and slept at the end of his bed letting him know you were his humble servant. Even though he was older than you (like way older I do believe [probably wrong like I always am]), you did as YOUR MOTHER IN LAW told you!

Now, I don’t have a mother-in-law, and I don’t have a daughter-in-law, but for some reason this relationship doesn’t seem like the norm to me.

She followed her and worshiped “her God.” It’s so weird to me that she didn’t consider God her God for the longest time.

This is such a POWERFUL book. Even the real book is powerful.

Francine, *claps slowly*.

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Title: Unashamed
Series: Lineage of Grace
Author: Francine Rivers
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Release Date: 2000
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 165

WrensReads Review:

Honestly, I love Francine Rivers’ writing with all my heart.

She is so on FIRE for Christ and you can see that buried in her words.

This series is an interesting one that I would recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about the Bible and those stories about women. She puts her own twist on her versions on this story, but she doesn’t take out any truth to the story. What I mean by that is even though we don’t know it happened the way she wrote it, doesn’t mean it didn’t actually happen the way she wrote it. She didn’t take anything out of the Bible.

So this whole series is about women in the Bible that are in the line of Christ.

WOMEN.

That’s important because the Bible doesn’t talk about girls too often because back then all us women were good for is babies and sex.

*a very dramatic eye roll in inserted right here in this review*

RAHAB IS MY FAVORITE GUYS I REALLY LOVE HER.

Out of this whole series: She’s my girl.

She seems kind of sassy, don’t you think?

Girls back then were used for two things: baby making and sex.

So how does a girl work for a living? You become a prostitute because that’s all someone will pay you for.

Poor lady.

She wanted to know the true God though, and knew she lived around wicked people.

So she did her part and helped hide traitors of the city, men of the Lord, and helped them not get killed and things. Which in returned they said they wouldn’t kill her and anyone in her house when they come and take over the city.

How about that, right? I’m a prostitute, rejected by my city and deemed dirty, but men of the Lord are going to save me and not those who are praised in the city. How about that?

Welp, hope it went well and everyone in her family got out safe. And that she didn’t get killed for treason. And that she married one of those guys she saved.

You should read it and find out because I absolutely love this book.

Francine girl, you win again.

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Title: Unveiled
Series: Lineage of Grace
Author: Francine Rivers
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Release Date: 2000
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 173

WrensReads Review:

Honestly, I love Francine Rivers’ writing with all my heart.

She is so on FIRE for Christ and you can see that buried in her words.

This series is an interesting one that I would recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about the Bible and those stories about women. She puts her own twist on her versions on this story, but she doesn’t take out any truth to the story. What I mean by that is even though we don’t know it happened the way she wrote it, doesn’t mean it didn’t actually happen the way she wrote it. She didn’t take anything out of the Bible.

So this whole series is about women in the Bible that are in the line of Christ.

WOMEN.

That’s important because the Bible doesn’t talk about girls too often because back then all us women were good for is babies and sex.

*a very dramatic eye roll in inserted right here in this review*

Tamar…. My dear, your story is a little unsettling.

You had a lot of men die around you and you probably were a little more emotional about that. Then no one else in the family would take you!

Back track: when a woman is given to a man, it is her sole purpose to produce a son so they can carry on the family man. So, when Tamar here married Er the son of Judah and she failed to produce a son before he died, she was passed onto someone else in the family to produce a son to carry on the name.

Onan was next in line. He never gave her what she needed to get pregnant (not going into details people. If you don’t know, ask someone with some sense). Because Onan was stupid, he died (men are stupid guys, just give in).

Next, Tamar was going to marry Judah’s third son and was told when he was of age she could.

Judah is a big fat dummy liar man.

*IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: THIS IS WHERE THE FIRST FEMINIST IS MADE.*

Tamar decided to dress as a prostitute and seduce her father-in-law-kind-of Judah and get her son. You can’t really blame her for doing this because she was disgracing her family by not having a son and she wasn’t fulfilling her role as a woman in general.

So happy I wasn’t born back then.

Guess what? It worked and she got pregnant.

But no one knows who the father is….?

BUM BUM BUMMMMM.

So how is she going to prove that she truly was just doing her duty to the family she was married into? Is she going to be stoned to death?

This is an interesting story in history because you get to see how people were treated and how different people thought back then.

Provo Francine, you killed it again.

Side note: Glad no one thought it was stupid that Judah just decided to cheat on his wife with a prostitute and just shrugged and went on with life. No big deal. Bye.

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