But somehow I still have doubts, and I still mess up over and over and over. I know God loves me! He has been SO faithful to me and I have seen Him do so much for me. Yeah, it wasn’t my favorite novel and honestly parts of it weren’t that fun to read, but it made me think and it left me with this message: It got a really repetitive and emotionally exhausting to read and I wanted to shake her to make her wake up and realize how good she had it with Hosea!īut, as I finished the novel and thought back over it, the message of the book really stuck out to me. What probably frustrated me the most though in Redeeming Love was how Angel kept leaving Hosea.

Also, while I understood the whole symbolism of Hosea calling Angel by different names it still kind of weirded me out! The style of writing wasn’t necessarily my favorite and I felt like the author tried to draw parallels with the Biblical account that didn’t quite fit with the modern retelling.įor instance, I didn’t like how she had God speak directly to Hosea, but of course that did happen in the Biblical account. With that being said, there were a lot of things that I didn’t particularly care for in the novel. While I would not recommend the book to young readers I think it is appropriate for older, mature readers. Obviously, some of the subject matter in Redeeming Love is pretty heavy stuff (the story is about a prostitute after all) but I felt like Francine Rivers handled the tough topics really well without delving into more detail than necessary. The basic idea of the story is that is is a modern retelling of sorts of the Biblical character Hosea and the prostitute whom God tells him to marry. My Honest Thoughts After Reading Redeeming Love by Francine River It’s a pretty popular book in the genre of Christian fiction/romance so I decided I should go ahead and read it to see what the big deal is. I’d read excerpts from the book several years ago but had never read the whole thing. It’s been so fun!Īnyway, I was making a list on (which is the best website ever, but that’s a topic for another day!) of books to read and I came across Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. After not finishing even one book all fall and winter, I’ve read eleven in just the last month. I love reading, and I’ve been on a bit of a reading spree lately while Pablo works on his online class in the evenings. Here are my honest thoughts after reading it.

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers is a popular Christian novel, soon to be made into a movie.

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