mark of the lion trilogy francine rivers

I felt fear for the main character and I really hoped that she would be able to find love even in the impossible situation she found herself in. Her explanation of Rome at that point and all the surroundings helped me to feel like I was there watching it all unfold. She must have done so much research for this book and it paid off. Francine definitely knows how to write a book that you can’t wait to see what happens next! Francine also quickly became one of my favourite fiction authors to read, especially Christian fiction. This was the first Christian fiction that I had read and I was blown away.

This is the time of Rome’s decline and the decadence of a civilization on the verge of self-destruction serves as a powerful backdrop to the Barbarian’s struggle for survival in the arena. Is it possible for a love between Hadassah and Marcus to flourish considering not only their differing stations in life but also the gap between Hadassah’s unrelenting faith and Marcus’ lack of belief in anything? Simultaneously, Atretes, a captured soldier from Germania, is forced to become a gladiator.

But Julia’s brother, Marcus, is a different sort altogether. Reckless, impulsive, and villainous, Julia tries to undermine Hadassah at every turn. Hadassah struggles to walk in the footsteps of Jesus and to treat her masters in a manner in keeping with His teachings, but she is forced to keep her religious identity a secret in order to survive.Ĭonfused and alone, she has only her faith to cling to as she tries to subtly bring God into the lives of her captors. Brought to Rome, she is pressed into service as a personal slave to hedonistic Julia Valerian. Following the prides and passions of a group of Jews, Romans, and Barbarians living at the time of the siege, the narrative is centered on an ill-fated romance between a steadfast slave girl, Hadassah, and Marcus, the brother of her owner and a handsome aristocrat.Īfter surviving the massacre of her family and the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, Hadassah is captured and sold to a well-to-do merchant’s family. “The city was silently bloating in the hot sun, rotting like the thousands of bodies that lay where they had fallen in street battles.” With this opening sentence, A Voice in the Wind transports readers back to Jerusalem during the first Jewish-Roman War, some seventy years after the death of Christ. (From Top 10 all time favourite books and why) About the book

Mark of the lion trilogy francine rivers