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In My Father's House (Shiloh Legacy)

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I read numerous books by numerous authors, and Theone is by far the best I have ever read. I have read her Zion Chronicles and Galway Chronicles and Shiloh Autumn. But the Shiloh Legacy is definantly the best one. Theone defines hisorical fiction and makes it real to life. She is a master in descriptive writting. Her characters come alive and you find yourself becoming a part of them and their joys and struggles. After reading one of her novels I learn and understand so much more the events and places in history that she is writting about. I haven't read the second book in this series but I know that it will be just as good as the first book or even better.

The Shiloh series is the best of the Thoene's work, but all of it is excellent. What really stood out to me, reading this book, was the experience of the black soldier. He served many more hours on the front lines, fighting in the most dangerous positions. He was honored while overseas for his service. Then he went home, proudly wearing the uniform in which he served his country, and was condemned for being uppity. Who did he think he was?

These black men were beaten, accused of crimes they didn't commit, and lynched.

As a white woman, I could never live that experience. But I lived it vicariously along with Jefferson Canfield.

The characters are real, with strengths and flaws, just as the people we meet every day. They experience good things, but they also experience horrible, awful things too. That's life.

It isn't light reading, but it IS riviting. And it is educational, because you experience things along with the people in the books, things that really happened at the time. I loved the love story between Birch and Trudy and the biding friendship that developed between Jeff and Birch.

This ties in with the Zion books, too, because Max Meyer and Ellis Warne were the fathers of two of the main characters in the Zion Chronicles, I believe, David Meyer and Ellie Warne.

They are worth reading. The only drawback is that once you've read the first, you HAVE to read them all, and they are LONG books!

In My Father's House got me started on Thoene books. Then I read the whole series of Shiloh Legacy. After thatI read Shiloh Autumn (which I think is the best book I ever read.) I have kept going on Thoene books and never regretted buying one of their books. Anything the authors write is a cut above. No wonder they dominate all the awards for Christian writing.

I highly recommend Bodie Thoene's novels. I have thoroughly enjoyed the Shiloh Legacy, the Zion Chronicles, the Zion Covenenant, and the first two books of the Galway Chronicles. My only frustration with Thoene is that I am now at the point where she is still writing the series I am reading! Oh, well, just have to wait until July...

In My Father's House got me started on Thoene books. Then I read the whole series of Shiloh Legacy. After thatI read Shiloh Autumn (which I think is the best book I ever read.) I have kept going on Thoene books and never regretted buying one of their books. Anything the authors write is a cut above. No wonder they dominate all the awards for Christian writing.

I've recently become a Bodie Thoene fan and have loved everything I've read. The story is compelling and true to life, and the characters are exciting and original, yet you get a real sence of the tragedy and triumph experienced through different eras of history. I've recommended this and other Thoene works to many of my friend and family. I can't wait for more from this author.

This book is about post-world war America.It deals with the racism and bigotry of some of the people of that time.It had me in tears by the end of it,but I didn't stop there,I had to read more books of the series.A masterful storyteller,Bodie Thoene knows how to historicly enlighten while keeping you on the edge of your seat.An A+ for this book,which is one of my most favorite of her books!

Bodie Thoene has always been one of my top Christian authors, and this was another great book. I really enjoy how the Shiloh Legacy, Zion Covenant, and Zion Chronicles all involve the same group of characters. You really establish a relationship with all of them when you can see how their families have intertwined over the years. Though I've read both of the Zion series, this is the first chance I've had to read this book, and I liked having a background to all the characters in the other series. For everyone who enjoys good books with a complex plot and compelling characters, this is a great book to read!

I have read every series from this writing team and every book is a 5 Star reading experience that leaves you wanting more, leaves you more informed about a period of time, leaves a fire in your heart, but this series holds a very special place in my heart now. I am misting up thinking about it. This series shows eerie parallels to what's happening in America today as we repeat history from the Great Depression errors to today. America is coming out of the Great War, the men of Wall Street are gambling with the average Joe's money from stock investments to savings accounts meant for safe keeping, and the crash that follows. Meanwhile, you get to know characters from all different backgrounds and how they lived, and in some cases, survived the times. I walk away from this series with greater understanding of how this period of time shaped our modern era that is lost to so many of us. The Theone's have been powerfully gifted at delivering incredible historical accuracy in content with spiritual insights that leave you richer and spiritually fed. I was so sad the story ended!

Pay attention to the order of the book series. They are all connected by a seamless thread and, when read in order, will really delight. Careful, every woman I have recommended and started on the first series "Gates of Zion" didn't stop reading till they cleared 38 or so books! My Jewish and Christian friends agree.

This book is, in a word, fabulous. I've said it before: Thoenes have a God-given talent of portraying true human
feelings, from suffering to joy and everything in between, through their books. Please give them a try!