My mom read this book to me when I was probably in middle school. I'm on a kick at the moment to rediscover some of those old favorites, which I remember liking but little else about them. Peretti definitely does not suffer from what I'll call the Christian fiction malaise: the work of so many ...
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I just finished reading this aloud with my husband, though I'd read it once before. Some 15 years ago, I was in the stage adaptation, as the heiress/murder victim (though I'm nearly sure my name in the play was Kate Mostyn, not Linnet Ridgeway/Doyle. But the play was also called "Murder on the ...
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I can't totally say why this book didn't do it for me. It might have been because I wasn't paying close enough attention, though usually a fantastic story will hook me such that I can hardly help it. I think it's more likely that it just felt like more of the same, though. I could point to specific ...
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The earthquake that concluded "Nicolae" left Chloe and Amanda, Rayford's new wife, unaccounted for. Buck presumably survived the earthquake due to his proximity to Rabbi Ben-Judah, one of the sealed 144,000. Rayford survived because of his proximity to Nicolae, and because he was in the air at the ...
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A fun chick lit holiday story, though definitely not what I'd call a "sweet" romance. It's not terribly clean, though not overtly dirty either. At least it wasn't objectionable enough that I stopped reading. The story follows Rachel, a Jewish 20-something still living with her very Jewish family, ...
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This is one of the best books I've read all year! Elements of the beginning of the story are straight out of "The Holiday," but that's okay, I love that film. :) The rest felt original to me, and even had some twists and turns that I didn't see coming. The story follows Jenny, a British ...
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