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Dwars Door De Nacht (2011)

by Liz Curtis Higgs(Favorite Author)

4.27 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Kok

series

Here Burns My Candle

review 1: This book does not deserve any stars and I have to say it is a pretty annoying one... yet I listened to the whole thing asI hate stopping partway through a book, so I stuck with it and kept hoping the writing would get better but it was a vain hope. The characters were not well developed and many of them are utterly unrealistic (child Peter) (cousin Anne), the story was incredibly predictable, the 'christian' factor rrrreeaaaeallllllly overdone. This author clearly has never had children. She writes about 7-year-old Peter Doglish as if he was 2 or maybe 3. This is a little boy in an era in history where children grew up a whole lot faster than in our spoiled, coddled child era. Even in this age, a seven-year old would be far more mature than this boy is. At 7, he would kno... morew his way around his neighborhood like the back of his hand. Peter is portrayed as a bright intelligent boy who has no mother and whose father works incredibly hard to support them both. If he got 'lost' at the fair, which takes place in his neighborhood, it is utterly silly to think that he'd be found scared and weeping. If he was found hurt or terrified of something, yes, reasonable thought, but not just in his own neighborhood in an era when children, if mentally 'normal', were only children for a very few years of their life.I like 'historic novels' for their history - telling me something about different times and places and ways of life in world different from mine. But this book clearly misses a lot about the era. Is Annie economically 'poor' or is she what we might think of as middle class - 'linen napkins', a 'dining table' in a 20x20 room - as if it's likely there is more than one table in such a small space (as well as a bed, numerous chairs, a trundle bed and often enough food to question just what level of society she falls under. Not a book I'd recommend to anyone... took me to SOuthern Scotland but... it was not a very note-worthy trip.
review 2: My favorite bible story is Ruth the moabitess. So when I saw a reimagined version of this story, I just had to read it. After the first book (which spans the first chapter of Ruth) I was really excited for this one because this is where the romance happened. Truthfully I was so mad when I was done because it was such an amazing story. It was beautiful and poiniant. Had everything an updated Ruth needed. less

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