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Liz Curtis HiggsWaterBrook / 2011 / Trade PaperbackOur Price$12.994.8 out of 5 stars for Mine Is the Night. View reviews of this product. 57 Reviews
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cathyKansasAge: 55-65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5great historical Christian romanceNovember 14, 2011cathyKansasAge: 55-65Gender: femaleQuality: 4Value: 5Meets Expectations: 4Mine is the Night is a great Christian romance set in 18th century Scotland. It is a story of riches and titles lost and how these 2 women and their poor cousin learn to live and love and trust again. It is the end of the war and the jacobite cause has lost. Marjory has lost her husband, both her sons, her title and the riches that go with it. Most of all she has lost her beloved home and now with Elizabeth her widowed daughter in law she must go and beg to live with a poor cousin, Anne. Anne has been ignored by her wealthy relatives but takes them in to live in her one room home. Marjory and Elizabeth Kerr learn that when all is lost they must trust in the Lord. They learn what true loyalty is and find friendships among those poor that had been previously rejected. They learn who can be trusted and loved. The three women find that love of family does not depend on monetary values but what is inside themselves. They find strength in themselves and each other then they find the love of a good Christian man.
I liked the way that this book tells a little of the Scottish poor of the 18th century. So many of historical romance books tell of only the rich and though this one also tells of the rich the poor are the major focus characters. I also liked that there was a Scottish glossary in the back of the book to help with understanding the language differences of the times and the country. Great book. It reads quickly and keeps the reader interested by all the turns of the story. Not just a good romance a good story.
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Sandra Cavellini5 Stars Out Of 5August 24, 2011Sandra CavelliniQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5The development of each character was excellent and the story line held my interest thoughout the book.
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Patricia JamesCaliforniaAge: 55-65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Great ending to this story.July 26, 2011Patricia JamesCaliforniaAge: 55-65Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5As usual, Liz weaves a great story and is a great conclusion to this two part series based on Ruth & Naomi. You feel as though you are right there with the characters.
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songbird67Bellingham, WAAge: 55-65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5great historical novelJune 28, 2011songbird67Bellingham, WAAge: 55-65Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This review was written for Mine Is the Night: A Novel - eBook.I love historical novels, and this one did not disappoint. This was a great adaptation of the biblical account of Ruth & Naomi yet set in the turmoil of mid-1700 Scotland. Loved the way the characters grew in their relationship with the Lord.
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MJ5 Stars Out Of 5June 27, 2011MJQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5It was in 2003 or shortly before when I first discovered both Christian Historical Fiction and more specifically the writing from the creative mind of Liz Curtis Higgs in her first Scottish Lowlands Series. I impatiently waited and snatched up each book that came next including the later generation novel on Dinah. It enthralled and entertained me as no other to find Biblical stories retold in Scotland.
I was then beyond ecstatic to learn of a new saga to come from 18th century Scottish Lowlands retelling the Biblical story of Naomi and Ruth. It was with some enjoyment that I read the first book in the saga Here Burns My Candle. Yet it was also a sad and hard book to read.
The time in between waiting for the next novel was torture and thus I turned to other authors to bide my time and hence my current obsession with so many authors and stories today. It seems that it has been a long time in waiting for a new novel from Liz and I was eager to grab this one up. In starting this story, a retelling in Scotland's Edinburgh of the Biblical story of Ruth and Naomi I had some preconceptions for what would happen and was shocked at how slow things seemed to transpire at first, but the story did pick up and sucked me in with it.
Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a Highlander by birth and a Lowlander by marriage it is her story and that of her mother-in-law Lady Marjory Kerr in which the pages are brought to life. Following along as they watch from the recessed side lines of battle between King George of England and Scotland's own Bonny Prince Charlie causes quite a stir of emotions. Learning with them through their own trials as some old ways are forgotten and God makes a difference in their lives is refreshing and eye opening showing his presence in the best of moments and well as the worst.
Knowing that this story was loosely of Ruth and knowing most of the Biblical story by heart, I ended at a point surprised having expected a different part. This just went to show me that I did not know all of the story, just the last part and causes me to have a newly increased thirst to go back and read the scriptures in full to delve into the first eighteen verses which it seems I hardly know at all.
Upon starting the second in Mine is the Night I was unsure what to expect. In the end what I found was my favorite story written by Liz thus far and I am completely impatient and whole heartedly eager for more!
***Special thanks to Cindy Brovsky of Random House Inc. for sending me a review copy.***
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