Title: Unafraid
Series: Lineage of Grace
Author: Francine Rivers
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Release Date: 2001
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 212

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*

Mary: the most important women in the Bible some would argue.

I don’t think God really puts people on a scale, but I do believe he loved her as a mother because she was his mother when he was made human to come and die for us.

But she conceived him while she was a VIRGIN.

Aka: people thought she had sex out of wedlock and saw her as horrible.

Even Joseph thought she did, her fiancé! It wasn’t until an angel came to him in a dream to hold his horses and marry her anyway because Jesus was going to need him.

Doesn’t mean they didn’t get stupid looks or that anything was any easier on them.

I mean, why isn’t there any room in the inn for THE PARENTS OF JESUS COME ON PEOPLE WHAT IS THAT ABOUT?

This is a very good retelling of the story of why we even have Christmas to begin with.

Francine, you are a queen.

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Title: Unspoken
Series: Lineage of Grace
Author: Francine Rivers
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Release Date: 2001
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 214

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*

Bathsheba… I am so sorry.

This is a story that Francine did a little more twist too. She starts off the book with Bathsheba as a young girl crushing hard on the up-and-coming king named David. She always had a thing for him, but he always just saw her as a little girl.

How devastating for her.

So imagine when her husband Uriah is off to war and the king you had a huge thing for at a young age comes out on his roof and sees you bathing there. What would you do? Probably what she does because I’m a bitter person sometimes: acts like you don’t see him and let him see what he is missing.

WHOOPS HE IS KING HE CAN DO WHAT HE PLEASES.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand he does.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand she gets pregnant. WHOOPS.

So David, being the God fearing soldier he is, fesses up and owns up to his mistake.

WRONG.

He makes things so much worse. He is the worst. I love David, but boy do I want to slap him when it comes to Bathsheba.

This story is very powerful.

I love how people think the Bible is about all these rules about our religion and really it’s about sex, war, death, and then Jesus

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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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