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Book Review | Eve, by Wm. Paul Young (Audiobook)

3/30/2016

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I'm back with an audiobook review.   This is another one of the titles I finished a few months back and finally had time to sit down and put my thoughts on paper.  Read on to find out what I thought of Eve and if it measured up to 'The Shack'!
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Publisher: Howard Books | Simon & Schuster Audio
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Format: Audio MP3
Pages: Hardcover: 320 pages | Audio Length: Approx 9 hours
Narrator: Roger Mueller
Source: Sribd
Genre: Fiction, Christian Fiction
Review Date: March 30, 2016
Rating: 3 bookmarks

Synopsis: When a shipping container washes ashore on an island between our world and the next, John the Collector finds a young woman inside--broken, frozen, and barely alive. With the aid of Healers and Scholars, John oversees her recovery and soon discovers her genetic code connects her to every known human race. She is a girl of prophecy and no one can guess what her survival will mean...

No one but Eve, Mother of the Living, who calls her daughter and invites her to witness the truth about her story--indeed, the truth about us all.

Eve is a bold, unprecedented exploration of the Creation narrative, true to the original texts and centuries of scholarship, yet with breathtaking discoveries that challenge traditional misconceptions about who we are and how we're made. As The Shack awakened readers to a personal, non-religious understanding of God, Eve will free us from faulty interpretations that have corrupted human relationships since the Garden of Eden.

Eve opens a refreshing conversation about the equality of men and women within the context of our beginnings, helping us see each other as our Creator does--complete, unique, and not constrained to cultural rules or limitations.


Eve is a pretty different take on Adam and Eve's story, it was entertaining if nothing else.  After all, it is a work of fiction. It's essentially a retelling of the Creation story.  This review will include several opposing opinions, but that's how I felt about it. Sometimes I really liked it, and other times I didn't.  I tried to consider this book on it's own merits, but I found it very difficult to not compare it to 'The Shack'.

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Throwback Thursday | Review Edition: The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity, by Wm. Paul Young (Audiobook)

6/6/2013

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Throwback Thursday is my weekly feature which I created to post a review that I've written from the past. Every week I will post a review that I've written prior to my blogs existence. I'll be sharing both the books that I think you'd enjoy and the books that I should warn you against wasting your time on! ;-)

Recently I've been feeling that I want to really keep myself in a positive frame of mind. I thought to share this book because it will motivate you and you'll feel great after reading it.  My regular readers know that this is not the type of book that I usually read, but I really felt this had a great story, delivered in a  non-preachy way. I especially recommend it in the audio format. Check it out!

Publisher: Windblown Media
Release Date: July 1. 2007
Format: Audio CDs
Pages: 248
Source: Library Borrow
Genre: Christian Fiction
Original Review Date: March 8, 2011
Rating: 4 bookmarks 

Synopsis:  Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his "Great Sadness," Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.

Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever.


Honestly, this book really surprised me. When this book was chosen as a book club read, I almost set myself up not to like it. I really dislike the feel of being “preached “ to, for lack of a better word. In addition, in general, I’m not a huge fan of Christian fiction. I really didn't want to read it, so I ended up borrowing the audio version from the Library. I thought, I can at least listen on my drive to and from work. I ended up listening on my lunch hour too! 

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