Review: Bible quotes overwhelm and distract
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 22, 2011
I found this story very hard to read for all the wrong reasons. I understand the need to share your beliefs, but I really felt that this story was being overwhelmed by the bible quotes. The quotes did not feel relevant or necessary to the flow of the story. Combining the quotes with the authors mostly detached prose, made it very hard for me to read.There were times that you could see the raw honesty, and feel the magnitude of the author's story. Those points in her story were absolutely amazing. For instance, when she described finally getting home after all that had happened. The description of her emotions and actions gave me the chills. Unfortunately, most of the story did not have that honesty and emotion to it. I guess that the story frustrated me because you could tell that this woman is so very capable of writing with all that she is, yet the book for the most part feels like it is written in a trance. It is like you get a peek at the honesty, and then it was gone.  I felt like I could put it down at any time. Considering the subject matter,  that should not be.