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goodreadsTitle: The Redemption of Glory
Author: Beth Hargrove
Genre: Christian fiction
Rating: 7/10
# pages: 392
Date read: March, 2007
Review: Glory is a headstrong spirit whose passage into the next world depends on her ability to set right the lives of four people who all need a gentle push in the right direction. Graham McKenzie is interrupted in his comfortable life as a country minister when a love from his past reappears, throwing into disarray all his carefully laid plans. Ruth Webster has to face a choice she made thirty years ago and decide if she still wants to follow that path. Scott is caught between what Glory wants for him, and what she knows is right for him, hurting Julie in the process as he doesn't always stop to think about the consequences of his actions.
Although implementing cliches at times, The Redemption of Glory throws enough curveballs at the reader to avoid being too predictable. I found myself totally caught up in the lives of the characters involved, rooting for them when things were going well and yelling at them when they were making fools of themselves. The main characters, as well as Scott's daughter and Julie's son all take turns in having the story told from their point of view, which adds a refreshing dimension to the book, as Beth Hargrove is able to follow the age-old commandment of story writing: Show, don't tell. Beth is just as capable of writing an eleven-year-old boy convincingly as she is of depicting an elderly great-grandmother, who's seen everything in her life, and learned from it.
Unfortunately Beth Hargrove decides to surprise the reader by at one point including details where she might better have faded to black. Even though it is tastefully done, it is jarring on the senses for being unnecessary and unexpectedly out of sync with the rest of the atmosphere. But while it puzzled me why she decided to include it at all, it didn't manage to take out the charm of an otherwise very delightful book, which I'd be happy to recommend to any fellow bookworm. (Written for Armchair Interviews)
Armchair Interviews says: Another good story that might have been much better with some wise editor's input relative to the distracting issues the reviewer mentioned.
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Author: Beth Hargrove
Genre: Christian fiction
Rating: 7/10
# pages: 392
Date read: March, 2007
Review: Glory is a headstrong spirit whose passage into the next world depends on her ability to set right the lives of four people who all need a gentle push in the right direction. Graham McKenzie is interrupted in his comfortable life as a country minister when a love from his past reappears, throwing into disarray all his carefully laid plans. Ruth Webster has to face a choice she made thirty years ago and decide if she still wants to follow that path. Scott is caught between what Glory wants for him, and what she knows is right for him, hurting Julie in the process as he doesn't always stop to think about the consequences of his actions.
Although implementing cliches at times, The Redemption of Glory throws enough curveballs at the reader to avoid being too predictable. I found myself totally caught up in the lives of the characters involved, rooting for them when things were going well and yelling at them when they were making fools of themselves. The main characters, as well as Scott's daughter and Julie's son all take turns in having the story told from their point of view, which adds a refreshing dimension to the book, as Beth Hargrove is able to follow the age-old commandment of story writing: Show, don't tell. Beth is just as capable of writing an eleven-year-old boy convincingly as she is of depicting an elderly great-grandmother, who's seen everything in her life, and learned from it.
Unfortunately Beth Hargrove decides to surprise the reader by at one point including details where she might better have faded to black. Even though it is tastefully done, it is jarring on the senses for being unnecessary and unexpectedly out of sync with the rest of the atmosphere. But while it puzzled me why she decided to include it at all, it didn't manage to take out the charm of an otherwise very delightful book, which I'd be happy to recommend to any fellow bookworm. (Written for Armchair Interviews)
Armchair Interviews says: Another good story that might have been much better with some wise editor's input relative to the distracting issues the reviewer mentioned.
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