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His Other Wife (2011)

by Deborah Bedford(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0446698679 (ISBN13: 9780446698672)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

FaithWords

review 1: Overall, it was a nice story. The reader did a good job of keeping me interested because I think if I decided to read this book myself I would have been a little bored. The title was a little misleading in that it really wasn’t much about the other wife, but more about the accident that takes place. It only hits the surface of Hillary’s healing after the divorce, coming to terms with her faith, and acceptance of her ex-husband’s new wife. There were a few times that I felt for Hillary and just wanted her to lose it and go off on Pam (the other wife), but Hillary stayed sensible and sweet. Almost too sweet. She always kept her cool and all the tribulations or hardships she and her family faced worked out just perfectly. Too perfectly. The ending was just too ... moreneat. Given this is Christian fiction, I’ve found that it wasn’t too thick with Christian references or bible passages, but there were times where I felt that the faith was worked into the story as a late addition.
review 2: The title is a hint that the plot is loosely based on the story of Hannah, Samuel's mother, in the Bible. Her husband Elkanah had another wife who was unkind to Hannah because she couldn't have a child. The parallels are stretched in this story about a woman whose husband leaves her and their son for another woman, marrying the woman and having a child with her. I didn't connect with any of the characters in this story, and the section where the protagonist is crying out to God in prayer about a situation involving her son, when another character accuses her of being drunk (another connection with the Biblical narrative), was very forced. The 'faith' of this character was not very believable. She would toss out some prayers periodically, but seemed to have little true intimacy with God. Give me a Jamie Langston Turner novel any day! less

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