I just finished another wonderful book by my best friend in the entire world.. Liz Curtis Higgs. This book is "Grace in thine Eyes". It's the last book in the series that I read out of order. I actually read this book about a year or more ago and loved it just as much reading it the second time.
Visit my friend Liz. Oh she is a wonderful author. I signed up for her newsletters and she sent me a ton of stuff in the mail and a personally signed card :)
Read on, dear reader:
Examine the Genesis 34 story of Dinah through a 19th-century Scottish lens...
Davina McKie is a bonny lass of seventeen, mute since childhood and fiercely guarded by her belligerent twin brothers, Will and Sandy. When the lads are forced to depart the glen, Jamie McKie escorts Davina to the Isle of Arran, where her lively cousins, Catherine and Abigail, make her welcome at the manse.
One moonless eve Davina blithely entertains the gentry of Arran with her grandfather’s fiddle, unaware of the dramatic turn her life is about to take.
A story of passion and revenge, of lost innocence and shattered dreams, Grace in Thine Eyes explores the sorrow of unspeakable shame and the gift of immeasurable grace.
A young woman trapped by shame.Two brothers bent on revenge.Can her father rescue her?Or is there only One who can set her free?
P.S. If you've read Thorn in My Heart, Fair Is the Rose, and Whence Came a Prince, I hope you'll enjoy meeting the next generation of the McKie family. But if a series isn't your style, here's good news: Grace in Thine Eyes is a stand-alone novel, written with new readers in mind. If that's you, sis, get ready for Grace!
From the Publisher, WaterBrook Press...Grace in Thine EyesA timeless tale of passion, revenge, and redemption When Liz Curtis Higgs emerges from her writing studio after long months absorbed in 19th-century Scotland, she’s often surprised to find modern cars in place of carriages and falling leaves instead of the blooming spring flowers she’s just left in her imagination.Critics are impressed by the emotional intensity and depth of research found in her historical novels, based on biblical stories and reset in 18th- and 19th-century Scotland. Readers of her three recent bestsellers have embraced Grace in Thine Eyes, a stand-alone novel introducing the next generation of the McKie family, even as it parallels the tragic, yet compelling account of Dinah from Genesis 34.Pitied by some commentators as a victim, chastised by others as a disobedient daughter, the biblical Dinah is a woman whose story is cloaked in mystery. Was it defiant curiosity that made her stray from home, seeking out the “daughters of the land,” or was it simply youthful innocence? When her brothers exacted their revenge, was Dinah greatly relieved or deeply grieved? Did she live in shameful seclusion or was she restored to society? Does her story end in disgrace…or grace?Not one of those questions is answered in the biblical account, in part because neither Dinah’s voice nor her viewpoint appears in the narrative. Grace in Thine Eyes explores those unanswered questions from Dinah’s story, yet without tampering with Scripture, moving this dramatic tale to the Scottish Lowlands of 1808.
Davina McKie is a bonny lass of seventeen, mute since childhood and fiercely guarded by her belligerent twin brothers, Will and Sandy. When the lads are forced to depart the glen, Jamie McKie escorts Davina to the Isle of Arran, where her lively cousins, Catherine and Abigail, make her welcome at the manse.
One moonless eve Davina blithely entertains the gentry of Arran with her grandfather’s fiddle, unaware of the dramatic turn her life is about to take.
A story of passion and revenge, of lost innocence and shattered dreams, Grace in Thine Eyes explores the sorrow of unspeakable shame and the gift of immeasurable grace.
A young woman trapped by shame.Two brothers bent on revenge.Can her father rescue her?Or is there only One who can set her free?
P.S. If you've read Thorn in My Heart, Fair Is the Rose, and Whence Came a Prince, I hope you'll enjoy meeting the next generation of the McKie family. But if a series isn't your style, here's good news: Grace in Thine Eyes is a stand-alone novel, written with new readers in mind. If that's you, sis, get ready for Grace!
From the Publisher, WaterBrook Press...Grace in Thine EyesA timeless tale of passion, revenge, and redemption When Liz Curtis Higgs emerges from her writing studio after long months absorbed in 19th-century Scotland, she’s often surprised to find modern cars in place of carriages and falling leaves instead of the blooming spring flowers she’s just left in her imagination.Critics are impressed by the emotional intensity and depth of research found in her historical novels, based on biblical stories and reset in 18th- and 19th-century Scotland. Readers of her three recent bestsellers have embraced Grace in Thine Eyes, a stand-alone novel introducing the next generation of the McKie family, even as it parallels the tragic, yet compelling account of Dinah from Genesis 34.Pitied by some commentators as a victim, chastised by others as a disobedient daughter, the biblical Dinah is a woman whose story is cloaked in mystery. Was it defiant curiosity that made her stray from home, seeking out the “daughters of the land,” or was it simply youthful innocence? When her brothers exacted their revenge, was Dinah greatly relieved or deeply grieved? Did she live in shameful seclusion or was she restored to society? Does her story end in disgrace…or grace?Not one of those questions is answered in the biblical account, in part because neither Dinah’s voice nor her viewpoint appears in the narrative. Grace in Thine Eyes explores those unanswered questions from Dinah’s story, yet without tampering with Scripture, moving this dramatic tale to the Scottish Lowlands of 1808.
And here is what I started reading this afternoon. The last book in the Bad Girls of the Bible series. I have already read the other ones, last year. Liz takes bad girls of the bible and puts them in a modern day setting and then goes back to the discuss them in biblical times. You can see them all on her website.
Happy Reading :)
1 comment:
Once I finish school I can't wait to re-visit your list of all the books you've read...I MISS READING and drool at yours and Jacquie's lists!! Happy Reading!! :)
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