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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good message gets lost in incredibly poor translation,
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This review is from: Confessions of a Preachers Wife (Urban Christian) (Paperback)
I really wanted to like Mikasenoja's "Confessions of a Preacher's Wife" because I love Christian fiction. But this novel was painful to read. I can read a book in a day or so, but it took me three weeks to finish "Confessions" because the writing was incredibly, amazingly, astonishingly poor. It was the worst I've ever read in my life. Mikasenoja thanked a few editors in her acknowledgments, but was the book edited at all? Bear with me here--I'm a copy editor and I writhe in agony at bad writing. Here's what bothered me:
1. Unnecessary, annoying commas (calling all crabby English teachers) 2. Flagrant misspellings of trademarks (Frappinchino, Scabble, and Kango hat are just a few) 3. Disuse of the hyphen in compound adjectives and misuse of the apostrophe 4. Author often forgets who she's talking about (called the son the father's name a few times) 5. Overuse of words, especially "customary." Used it six times (I think) in chapter nine alone... 6. No use of pronouns (I wear my church hats because I look good in church hats and I like my church hats...) How did this book get published? I really could go on forever, but I want to remain objective. As much as I'd like to, I can't recommend this book to any intelligent person. It was trite, uneven, and overly descriptive. It almost seemed like a seventh grader wrote it. The Christian message--the only reason I gave the novel an extra star--just didn't come across as it could have because the writing was distracting. Mikasenoja, I'm not trying to dog you at all. I'm a Christian woman, too, and I respect your vision. But if you don't get better editors, readers won't take your work seriously.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hallelujah, it's true,
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This review is from: Confessions of a Preachers Wife (Urban Christian) (Paperback)
Confessions of a Preacher's Wife is a wonderfully written adaption to what a preacher's wife go through. In order to survive being a preacher's wife you have to be prayed up. We can't solve all of the problems in the church, we can't stop the women from eyeing our husbands and wanting to be the First Lady of the Church, but we can learn how to take care of our family and keep our husbands eyes only on us. We can pray that God will continually keep them in His care, keep thier feet standing on the rock and their hands in His hands. Even though we are mistreated sometime we can only continue to stand on the promises of God and do His holy will because we realize that it's not all about us (preachers' wives) but it's about the God that is inside of us that shows through for the congregation to see.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome book!,
By Summerbrzz "Bookworm" (Shreveport, LA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Confessions of a Preachers Wife (Urban Christian) (Paperback)
I thoroughly enjoyed reading "Cofessions of a Preacher's Wife"! The book was totally engrossing and dealt with REAL issues faced by preachers/pastors and their wives/families! I loved it and look forward to reading other books by this author---especially since she's a soror!
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