 Hey, hey, hey, what's going on? Welcome back to Conversations with Carrie and y'all I got that new new I mean like that new new today on my book review and y'all already know it's book review time You better work you better get it. You better work. You better get it All right y'all when I tell you I got that new new I got that new Francine Rivers, okay? The ladies mind if you've seen my previous Francine Rivers book review y'all I'm a Francine Rivers fan So let me first say that before I go into my book review. I am a fan Redeeming love actually did not see it in the movie theaters because I kind of don't want it to take The I love the book. It's one of my favorite books, which I said avid reader That's hard to say, but I will say redeeming love. It's one of my favorite books So when I saw that the ladies mind, I'll say a regular price for a new release on Amazon That means I really want the book, but again, I because I always love Francine Rivers And she'll tell you that this was her pandemic book So she went back to her romantic novel writing, you know, of course with God in and so, you know Everything's pure ain't nobody around here you know fornicating and everything else in the book which I that I appreciate because I Ain't in that place. So therefore I ain't trying to read about it But again, I'm not sure it was a little slow for me And this is even hard for me to say because I love me some Francine Rivers y'all wanted it to be I was kind of like, okay. How long are these people not gonna like each other now? Well, first, let me let me back up a second Let me tell you a little bit about the characters. So there's a one woman in man obviously, but That she is she kind of has gets exiled from her home Her mother's new husband basically doesn't like her and she's an opinionated bold Woman and this is back in like the gold rush time in the 1800s So again, even that part of the book, I probably should have paused and thought it's this gonna like do I want to read this because Back in the 1800s, this is right after basically like civil war and stuff And I was like, oh Lord, that's when like they had some areas hadn't even freed the slaves yet And so I didn't really like love that and then also like the her love interest or for so long She was like, I'm never getting married. I don't want to do this And of course he wins or over but he also finds a relationship with the Lord on his own And that just kind of adds to it But it was almost like a little too perfect at times and I don't know Y'all know yeah, sometimes the romance book it can go either way, but I will say that I Feel like it was very vivid vivid like I can see it and that's one thing that I think Francine Rivers That's really good. The storyline again. This could been a novel probably like pray half the size Let's see how many pages is it? 400 something pages Yeah, it probably could have been 200 something. I mean again, everything came full circle And it's it's a you know a well-written story. It's just that it just dragged a little bit And it was a little very predictable. I don't know. This was no redeeming love. I put it that way So yeah, I mean if you're a Francine Rivers fan You'll probably like love it, but it just doesn't compare to like her like the is it the mark of the lion series? Like it just doesn't compare to like her. Ooh, there wasn't just like this deep moment. It was so it's a fluffy book That's the best way to put it. It's the fluffy if you like fluffy This is here for it and also again ain't nobody trying to be depressed around here reading So let me let me say that so again the ladies mind Francine Rivers that new new I Probably I'm probably gonna send it to have price bookstore Which I normally don't do with books from authors that I really enjoy, but yeah I don't think I need to hold on to this one. I think I'm good. All right y'all Thank you for joining conversations with Carrie. I'll have another book review for you soon. Take care