About this title: In this story set in mid 19th-century Appalachia, young Cadi learns a valuable spiritual lesson about Jesus Christ after she confronts a mysterious man who comes to absolve her guilt over her grandmother's death. Now a major motion picture from Fox Faith, starring Henry Thomas ("E.T."), set for theatrical release on February 16. Photos.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780842335706ISBN:0842335706
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Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tyndale House Pub, Wheaton, Illinois, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780842335706ISBN:0842335706
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Date Published: 1999
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Date Published: 1998-08-01
ISBN-13:9780842335706ISBN:0842335706
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tyndale House Pub
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780842335706ISBN:0842335706
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"I really wanted to like this book because a friend recommended it to me who absolutely loved it, so I scarfed it down in three days so that we could go watch the movie in theaters together. I came to a conclusion, my friend mostly reads Christian fiction, and I mostly don't. I just didn't care for how straightforward Rivers is with the spiritual dialogue. It seems unnatural and slightly uncomfortable (and I'm a Christian!). The story is an interesting concept, but the characters were just a tad too unbelievable. The movie was even more of a disappointment. This review makes me seem cynical...I'm really not, I just don't like spiritual treats to be handed to me unwrapped. I want to discover them for myself...I think I get more out of it that way, and appreciate it more."
"Let me begin by saying that this book starts out so captivating that I wanted to weep at times. The story is set in the 1850s West Virginia Appalachians and is about young ten-year old Katy who considers herself the propagator of her younger sister's death and suffers from major league depression therefrom. Because of her pain, she decides to, and is encouraged by an enigmatic, imaginary(?) friend seek out the village's Sin Eater, a man who is chosen by lot to be the one who takes the sin of the recently deceased upon himself so that the dead man or woman may be saved, though as a result the Sin Eater is condemned to hell, or so the belief goes.
Meanwhile a Man of God arrives in the valley and begins to proclaim the Word of God and the village Kai (forgive me if the spelling is wrong, I listened to this book; I did not read it), who is the village leader and also the son of the man who revived the Sin Eater practice from old Scottish/Welsh traditions forbids the village from listening to him. Katy, however, is as stubborn as she is depressed and finally, after asking the Sin Eater to take her sin away (and though he agrees, he fails to do so), she goes to the Man of God and has a conversion experience, which finally releases her from her pain. This is about halfway through the book, so though I have just provided you with a small spoiler, the best is yet to come and of that I will not say much.
Here the book runs into trouble, however, and I became less and less able to suspend disbelief as I listened. First of all Katy begins bringing The Word to people who need to hear it. That's okay, and for my Orthodox Christian background, I had no problem with it. However, the young girl (and later her best friend a young boy only four years older than her) begin quoting Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and some of the minor prophets from the Old Testament perfectly only a few hours after their conversion. She also throws around such lingo as "the Spirit moved me" and "I was inspired by the Holy Spirit to say..." and other such colloquialisms. Now I've no doubt that God could grab hold of a child's mouth and make her spout perfect King James Biblical verse mere hours after her conversion, and use her through the Holy Spirit, but this perfect King James quoting, not to mention the lingo, was just way to much for me to accept. Even the most celebrated conversion on the New Testament, the Roadside conversion of the Apostle Paul did not prepare him immediately for his massive and most important work, which started a few years later.
In the end, as the dust jacket says, a hideous truth is revealed and the village Kai is brought low. The Village is more or less redeemed and Katy's family is bound back together. The Sin Eater finds happiness and surcease from his loneliness. None of this should be much of a spoiler; one guesses fairly soon in the timeline that such will be the fate of the major characters. Besides, as with most predictable novels, it's the journey that counts.
This book was satisfying to listen to, I admit. The characters were well defined and the imagery vivid and the prose a delight to listen to in its own right. Francine Rivers did a really good job of researching how an 1850 back-country Appalachian village might look and feel and speak, and all of that research goes into the story. There is a particularly memorable scene of an old woman receiving a back-woods remedy for what I assumed was arthritis, and that, all by itself, made the book memorable. But for the reasons I cited earlier in this review, all I could manage to give it is three stars.
If you are a fundamentalist Christian, this book will seem rich and worthy of great praise. If you are a mere orthodox Christian like myself, this book will start out like gang busters and then turn slightly sour, though in the end the story will be memorable, and the doctrine right on. If you are someone who does not hold to the Christian Faith, this book will be one you put down about half-way through, unless of course The Spirit falls upon you and you are converted by the story, but that is the only way non-believers will be able to get through this story, in my humble opinion.
In closing, this book was written to entertain believers. That's a shame, because there are a lot of people who could use the good and powerful message contained in it."
"Someone recommended that I read this book and I thought the message of salvation came through well as far as the story goes. But I just could not warm up to any of the characters. I'm not a fan of Appalatian mountain lore anyway and that hindered me in liking the book. As far as the mother goes, she says at the end of the book that the guilt she felt was why she couldn't look at her daughter...you'll see if you read the book. But the daughter felt nothing if totally unloved and ignored by her mother. In fact, giving two stars is generous. Sorry. I'm surprised that I even finished this book..."
"Wow! Despite the unusual title I picked up this book at the library because I have liked everything else I had read by Francine Rivers. The story takes place in the Smoky Mountains in the 1850's. The residents of this small hamlet believe that opon death one's sins are removed by offering food and drink the the sin eater. The sin eater taker the sins open himself and the person can be clean before God. Young Cadi Forbes questions this and sets out to meet the Sin Eater. Along the way she meets a man of God who has come to preach the truth that only believing in Jesus can set you free. The story line and the characters all are a parable of sorts , showing how people can be deceived and how God can shine his light in the world."
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