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The Beloved Daughter (2013)

by Alana Terry(Favorite Author)

4.21 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1484063449 (ISBN13: 9781484063446)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Createspace

review 1: As with any review, there is a good level of bias. And yes, I'm giving this two stars. I honestly didn't feel connected emotionally with the memoir, and I think that's what made it worse in finishing this book.It's the story of one Korean woman who got the bad end of the stick in North Korea and just got lucky to escape to China (and later South Korea) and throughout the story puts her devotion towards God, which was very doubtful through out the whole story. Unless she was supposed to be the female Peter in this writing (God accepting an honest skeptic, or God accepting a skeptical believer,? You choose).When relating to Khaled Hossein who himself talks of Islam in his books and the persecution within Afghanistan, it keeps you wanting flip through each page and not wantin... moreg to put down his books down till the last page. But with this book I felt Christianity was splashed unnecessarily throughout the story being told and plagued with bible verses to start off each chapter and the constant moaning and groaning. It was quite obvious as to what the end of the book would play out to be about. Also the punting of atheism seems to be the rational behind what the North Korean and China were doing rather than the philosophical view of communism and political power that the leaders like holding, which can be seen as being mutually exclusive to atheism.It was a tragic story, and I do wish it doesn't befall anybody but it is life, and we should move on.Suppose it can teach a thing or two about being grateful for the opportunities one has in life, everybody lies to save their own skin, that bad things happen to good people (which is mutually inclusive to bad people as well), and that one should follow their passion no matter what the risks may be.Just on a side note, you're never born into [Insert Your Religion Here], you're born to parents of [Insert Your Religion Here]. Thus all I'm saying is that children are vulnerable, and should given an early start in reading in terms of sciences and religion (not just one or the other), and shouldn't be stopped in questioning everything.
review 2: Alana Terry has written a masterpiece that puts life in perspective in North Korea. That takes me out of the safety of my US life and transports me into the prisons where my brothers and sisters in Christ survive, somehow - or not. It also puts "free" life for Christians in North Korea in perspective. The constant observation of surroundings and suspicious people, the need for places to hide even in the home, to distrust even those people closest to you.Because of Alana Terry's book, The Beloved Daughter, I will no longer be so blase when I hear of prisoners in NK, or of torture of one of my brothers or sisters there. I've "seen" the conditions in those prisons. I don't know how they survive at all. Prayer will be more than a simple "Bless them" from this time on. Thank you, Alana, for painting this picture for me and for all who will read and let it affect them so profoundly.I would recommend this book to any of my Christian friends. It is so easy for those of us in the United States & other countries to take for granted our freedom of religion. less

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