In My Father's House (Shiloh Legacy, Book 1)

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Summary: A Great Book
Review: 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!

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Summary: JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I READ THE BEST ONE....
Review: 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.

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Summary: A great series- astounding writers!
Review: 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.

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Summary: You live through what the characters did
Review: 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!

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Summary: Gripping
Review: 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!

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Summary: a wonderful inspiration
Review: This was a great book, but frustrating sometimes when it dealed with racism. That's not a bad thing. You really get into this book and feel what the characters feel. It's not hard to read at all. Anyone could read it, and it is very true to life. The imagery is great, but the ending was kind of disappointing. I'm gonna have to read the other two books in the series to really get closure. You just get so drawn into the character's lives. I liked this book so much, that when I lost it (after not even having to buy it) I went out and payed thirteen dollars for another copy, and I only had about thirty pages left. That's how good this book was.