“I LOVED this book. Which was a total surprise. The first one was okay, and I thought I'd feel the same way about this one. And for most of it I did. However, once I got to Chapter 22, everything changed. I was hooked.
Chapter 22 is right after Jesus is baptized when he's tempted in the desert. Here, Rice imagines what the confrontation between Satan and Jesus might have been like. And it's powerful. Once I started connecting her story with the Gospels, her book took on a whole new meaning. I realize it's fiction, but her story helped flesh out things that I've always had a hard time imagining. Her story made them real.
The rest of the book goes through all the events following Christ's temptation - his miracles and conversations. But she gives a whole new perspective on things I've read in the Bible a million times.
I gave this book five stars because for me, it was worth reading the whole thing just for the final chapters.”
btschamler wrote this review Thursday, September 17 2009.
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