Review: WAY too preachy
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2011
I understand it's religious fiction but it was condescendingly preachy. If any religious zealots know of a girl pregnant or with a child out of wedlock this is the handbook they would give to them to make her feel as low and bad as possible about her big bad 'sin'. She feels the need to publicly confess her sin. Just give them the avenue they need to stone you Vivian. That is ridiculous!Billy is a nice man but he's too preachy. Lessons about God can be given without copy/pasting scripture. As a Christian, this book made me sick and ashamed like I am when I see people who claim to be Christian and do nothing but judge and judge other people. This is the nauseating type of Christian.Vivian has a baby out of wedlock and is always thinking she's about to be smite down for her grave sin. The relationship between her and her baby is weird. Sure she was raised in an orphanage from 14 to 20 but still. EVERY woman knows you breastfeed a baby. How she never clued in that the baby needs to be breastfed is ridiculous. Billy notices but never mentions it.She didn't act like the baby's mother and she even mentions having a friend at the orphanage who was good with the babies. Well, Marie sure didn't tell her anything about babies because even monkeys have better natural parenting skills. They say if baby is lost in the jungle a monkey would be the best protection for them. But Vivian doesn't even have monkey sense as a mother.That and WAY TOO PREACHY. If you want a great religious novel about forgiveness and coming to terms with your past and realizing that God loves you READ Heart of Stone: A Novel by Jill Marie Landis. It's religious but not preachy. THIS is preachy.