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Redeeming Love

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The story is about a young girl sold into prostitution at the age of eight who later is rescued by a man named Michael. The epilogue of this book is straight out of a bodice ripper, and the more I found out about her backstory - neglect, abuse, rape, assault, incest, probably PTSD - the more I sympathized with her. Now, I don't know enough about the romance genre to say whether this is endemic within it, but I have seen my fair share of romantic comedies, and there is a sort of love narrative that I don't approve of.

Set in California’s gold country, in 1850, there is a gold rush and with it, men would do what they want and women would sell their bodies for a place to sleep. Even after we are away from the subjects of child rape, human trafficking, auctioning of women, and seduction, it talks a great deal about nakedness and marital relations.

The double standards for men and women is something that pisses me off all the time, and here I almost wanted to burn the damn book. the devil tries to make us think that we are not good enough for Good, that we should run away from him (like angel felt with Michael) but God wants all of us, with a our hurt, past and mistake! I can't get past how much the main female protagonist is talked down to and slut-shamed by her own husband (and that's not even all). Back to the darkness, away from her husband’s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she can no longer deny: Her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael Hosea does…the One who will never let her go.

I think this may be only the second Christian themed novel I've ever read, which means its the first one I ever finished.I will say that the story manages to stand on its own fairly well and I was engaged for the majority of the book. It appears best to see Gomer as chaste at the time of marriage to Hosea, only later having become an immoral woman. He [God] will rescue the poor when they cry to him; he will help the oppressed, who have no one to defend them. And in this case, I don't mean that Jesus is an important figure in the characters' lives or that their belief system informs their decisions.

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