good with some minor annoyances

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	• The Atonement Child Francine Rivers Tyndale House Publishers, 1999 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 120 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent Read

This book was so engrossing and if it was in my power I would pass it along to all teens. The rape of a Christian college student was horrendous, a girl who tried every day to live a life that would honor God. The ordeal she went through with her friends, boyfriend and even the college dean was enough to make anyone feel hopeless with nowhere to turn. This was a girl who had her head screwed on right and looked forward to a bright future, but when her parents did not respond with a positive attitude, she felt abandoned.

This scenario could easily happen and the courage Dynah showed was very uplifting and inspiring. Those who are pro-choice are not likely to recommend "The Atonement Child" for obvious reasons but I gladly do. As you can gather, I am against abortion simply because common sense tells me that if I do anything to prevent the birth of a baby then I have killed a child.

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A great book.

This book will change your life. It is probably the best book (besides the Bible) I have ever read. Read it and pass it along.

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good with some minor annoyances

I hated this book at first. The main character did not seem real to me at all, with her perfect life and perfect Christian boyfriend and all that. The first few pages kind of gave me a sick feeling, like I had eaten too much cotton candy. But I kept reading anyway and I'm very glad I did.

As time went on Dynah became very real to me, as did her questioning God and her anger. I liked that the author was not afraid of getting angry at God or questioning Him. So many Christians are. I think that most of the "realness" of the situation was expressed through Dynah's pain and crying out to God for answers. There was no sugar-coating of human emotions in this book, and I liked that.

The one thing I didn't like about this book was that adoption was not even *mentioned* as an option until the last part of the book. All through the novel we are given a black and white scenario: Dynah gets an abortion or haves the baby and ruins her life by trying to raise a child on her own. I just wanted to scream, "Hello?!? What about adoption!!!" It seemed too unlikely that no one in the story was considering that option.

Something else I didn't like was that everyone seemed to have dealt with abortion at some point. It was unbelievable. I thought the mother's story was interesting and surprising, but after that you start hearing about the grandma's abortion, Joe and his girlfriend, the doctor, the lady at the clinic, the grandma's friends. Come on. Not everyone has had an abortion. I thought the book would have been great if it had just stuck to the fact that Hannah had had an abortion that was now ruining her marriage and making her doubt herself, leading her daughter down the same path. But it just wasn't necessary to the plot that everyone else had had one too at some point.

Overall, I liked this book a lot. I read it straight through in two days. I highly recommend it. Some stuff is annoying, but the book as a whole is definitely worth reading.

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