Review: Is Hero Really a Strong Christian Man?? Very Questionable!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2013
First, Rick plots with Sarah's mother to get a date with Sarah. He meets all of the qualifications, especially since he is of strong Christian faith...which I find very questionable although I did really liked him. Everything he does is deceitful. What a shame.He does not come clean on his own about his background (career) and he lets her think he is a poor gardener, but she finds out quite by accident that he isn't who he says he is. Not good. Dishonest, deceitful and cowardly. But before she finds that out...He "pretends" and asks her to help him look at lots to build his home on someday. Then he insists they go shopping and he explores what she would want in the house...if someday it could be hers (pretend). Clear deception, isn't lying a sin? I never heard him confess it to God or pray for forgiveness for all his deception and lying.She is so hurt and upset because everyone always seems to try and control her life and her mother wants her married asap. She begs her mom to stop the matchmaking but she does it anyway! A Christian mother who will not take her daughter's feelings into consideration, even her feelings about her own future and who she does and does not want in it. She isn't a child and parents do not always know best, not when their child is an adult, supporting herself and living in her own home. Just introduce them for crying out loud, don't deceive and lie to her. Did her beloved mother ever repent...not that it told us.After Sarah finds out about the lies, she leaves the country. He finally comes to get her (after two months of letting her think...please) and what I hear is an awful lot of apologizing coming from Sarah to Rick...is she the one that is dishonest? I haven't heard him groveling and believe me, that's what it would take for me to ever take him back.Never was there a resolution to the fact that he went ahead and purchased a lot, had a house built, and completely furnished it for her and kept that a secret. She didn't get to be involved in the process and share in the excitement of them doing this as a couple, she was completely and totally left out. Yes, she played along and picked out items but never knew it was a house for her. It was a pretend game he insisted on. What it was was an out and out lie. He told her he would buy it from the people someday who had already purchased it, when in fact he owned it...YET AGAIN another lie and deceit. He had her looking for the house and furniture and they had not even professed their love for each other.Just a shame when there was so much opportunity to see a grown man seek forgiveness from God and Sarah, to teach a listen in honesty and openness. The deceit and lies got all the page time, not what should have/would have been the right, honorable thing to do, even if it came at the very end.Would I recommend this book...No I would not. It was too frustrating and after I rethought how it was all handled I couldn't help but feel disillusioned.As much as I liked Rick, which was a lot, it would have been hard to commit to him with all of the dishonesty without him showing repentance to God for the hurt, pain and mess he had caused and that he pray to the Lord for the strength to not be deceitful anymore.