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Her Daughter's Dream (Marta's Legacy #2)
In the dramatic conclusion to the "New York Times" best seller "Her Mother's Hope," Francine Rivers delivers a rich and deeply moving story about the silent sorrows that can tear a family apart and the grace and forgiveness that can heal even the deepest wounds.Growing up isn't easy for little Carolyn Arundel. With her mother, Hildemara, quarantined to her room with tuberc...more
Hardcover, 580 pages
Published
September 14th 2010
by Tyndale House
(first published 2010)
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This book picks up where HER MOTHER'S HOPE left off, and continues the family saga into present times. I won't try to relate the plot, but since the chronology of this book was similar to my own life, I could identify with the characters who were impacted by the Vietnam War and the social revolution that took place around that time in history.
I will repeat the following from my review of HER MOTHER'S HOPE because it applies to both books:
The story has many parallels with the author's own family,...more
I will repeat the following from my review of HER MOTHER'S HOPE because it applies to both books:
The story has many parallels with the author's own family,...more
I liked Her Mother's Hope so much more than this sad story. Dawn develops a closer bond with her grandmother, Hildemara, than with her mother, just as Carolyn did with her Oma, Marta, causing more rifts between generations of mothers and daughters. Frustrating story with the characters not seeing they were repeating the same mistakes over and over.
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It was shocking how a break in communication can create so many misunderstandings and results in so much hurt.I hated Hildie for being so rigid when dealing with her daughter. Even though she didn't want to transmitt the TB bug to her, but an explanation in a language a chiuld could understand was all it required to keep the love in that relationship. I totally blame Caroline's rape by the neighbour on her parents. She was neglected. However, her behaviour at university was uncalled for. I was s...more
“Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took hitting rock bottom to make someone reach up and grasp hold and be lifted from the mire to stand on a firm foundation.”
In the conclusion of Francine Rivers Marta’s Legacy Series we continue to learn about Oma, Hildemara Rose her daughter Carolyn and daughter May Flower Rose. Rivers continues to weave a story that links you to the characters but also teaches you lessons about your everyday life. Every fam...more
In the conclusion of Francine Rivers Marta’s Legacy Series we continue to learn about Oma, Hildemara Rose her daughter Carolyn and daughter May Flower Rose. Rivers continues to weave a story that links you to the characters but also teaches you lessons about your everyday life. Every fam...more
Hildie becomes ill and Marta(Oma) comes to stay with the family while Hildie is sick. Marta and Carolyn become very close, so close it creates problems between Hildie and Marta resulting in Marta returning home leaving Carolyn. Whithout Marta Carolyn is lost and she feels and turns to Charlie her brother to comfort her. When the family relocates Carolyn has trouble fitting in, but soon finds out what can happen when someone acts out of desperation. Hildie then starts working again and like her m...more
Aug 13, 2011
Meagan Myhren-bennett
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Book Group, Fiction fans, Young Adults, Adults
Recommended to Meagan by:
Tyndale Summer Reading Program
HER DAUGHTER’S DREAM
By Francine Rivers
What drives us to push away those who love us the most? This multi-generational story delves into the dangers of tough love and its far reaching affects.
What Marta did out of love for her daughter Hildemara has far reaching consequences that affect the third and fourth generation. Carolyn, Hildemara’s daughter, feeling that her parents lack of attention is due to a lack of love looks for love in all the wrong places. As a result Carolyn becomes a single mom...more
By Francine Rivers
What drives us to push away those who love us the most? This multi-generational story delves into the dangers of tough love and its far reaching affects.
What Marta did out of love for her daughter Hildemara has far reaching consequences that affect the third and fourth generation. Carolyn, Hildemara’s daughter, feeling that her parents lack of attention is due to a lack of love looks for love in all the wrong places. As a result Carolyn becomes a single mom...more
This second book following 'Her mother's hope' continues to trace the relationship between mothers and daughters over the generations. I found the book very interesting when I pondered about the friction and hidden messages and nuances that passed between mom, daughter and grand-daughter. Marta's daughter Hildie...Hildie's daughter Caroline....Caroline's daughter May Flower Dawn. The book dwells on how each of these women behaved with her daughter in the best way she thought to do trying not to...more
Her Daughter’s Dream
continues the fascinating character study Francine Rivers began in Her Mother’s Hope. This book covers the lives of Marta’s daughter and granddaughters. The characters seemed so real to me and the hurts they inflicted upon each other so damaging that, again, I found this book difficult to read yet impossible to put down.
Spanning from the 1950s to present day, this book tells the story of Hildemara’s battle with tuberculosis. Because of her illness, her daughter Carolyn for...more
Spanning from the 1950s to present day, this book tells the story of Hildemara’s battle with tuberculosis. Because of her illness, her daughter Carolyn for...more
Jun 19, 2011
Melanie
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
mother-daughter,
christian-historical-fiction
Her Daughter’s Dream is part two in Marta’s Legacy by Francine Rivers. To fully understand and soak in the story you need to start with part one, Her Mother’s Hope.
Part two picks up where one left off in the early 1950’s. Hilde is suffering for a second time with TB and is in a hospital room quarantined from her family. Her husband Trip calls Oma Marta to come and help them so that Hilde can come home to recover and care for the children. Hilde is surprised that she does. Marta and Carolyn form...more
Part two picks up where one left off in the early 1950’s. Hilde is suffering for a second time with TB and is in a hospital room quarantined from her family. Her husband Trip calls Oma Marta to come and help them so that Hilde can come home to recover and care for the children. Hilde is surprised that she does. Marta and Carolyn form...more
I love all of Francine Rivers books and I love them because of the theme that runs through each one of them: God redeems. He takes broken people from broken places and heals them. He makes all things new. This book (and the one preceding it) was a little different kind of book for Francine. This book grew out of her desire to understand the relationships between the women in her own life. She did a good job of accurately portraying the complexity inherent in human relationships and in particular...more
Again the frustration continues with Carolyn and Hildie as it did with Marta and Hildie. I basically figured out that most of carolyn's security and relationship issues had to do with her being sexually abused by Dock. I knew the minute his character was introduced that he was no good.
OK good parts were I thought Jason and Dawn's relationship were more realistic that the rest. It showed the true rawness of sin and consequences as well and healing and forgiveness. It was hard to read about all t...more
OK good parts were I thought Jason and Dawn's relationship were more realistic that the rest. It showed the true rawness of sin and consequences as well and healing and forgiveness. It was hard to read about all t...more
I enjoyed this, although not as much as Her Mother's Hope. At times I just felt too annoyed and frustrated by all the conflict that could just be so simply resolved if these women just opened up and said what they were feeling instead of bottling it all up and letting it fester! The women in my family are very much the sort to tell each other immediately and bluntly if they have a problem with something, so I couldn't relate to all the secrecy and repression and found it exasperating, even thoug...more
Her Daughter's Dream is a follow up to Her Mother's Hope, a Christian novel. I chose these books to read during a rather busy and somewhat stressful time preparing to move to CA. They are "light and fluffy" novels, easy to read but do have a good message of practical life and highlight the experiences and misunderstandings that can disrupt relationships between mothers, daughter, grandmothers unless they are addressed through honest conversation.
The author underscores Jesus' message of love, un...more
The author underscores Jesus' message of love, un...more
I have been blessed to receive a review copy of the sequel to Her Mother’s Hope. This is a very personal story for Francine Rivers. She says, “I wanted to explore what caused the rift between my grandma and my mom during the last years of my grandmother's life. Was it a simple misunderstanding or something deeper that had grown over the years? Many of the events of this story were inspired by my family history that I researched and events I read about in my mother’s journals or experienced in my...more
After reading Her Mother's Hope, I couldn't wait to get my hands on Her Daughter's Dream. Rivers created such a compelling, and heartbreaking, mother/daughter relationship in book one, I wondered how she would follow it up.
In Her Daughter's Dream, we are treated to the stories of Marta, Hildie, Carolyn, and May Flower Dawn... four women who are bound together by blood, yearning for unconditional love, yet certain they are letting down the women they want to please the most. It's a cycle that's...more
In Her Daughter's Dream, we are treated to the stories of Marta, Hildie, Carolyn, and May Flower Dawn... four women who are bound together by blood, yearning for unconditional love, yet certain they are letting down the women they want to please the most. It's a cycle that's...more
After reading this book, it’s no surprise that Francine Rivers has won numerous awards and continues to hold rank as a New York Times best-selling author. Her Daughter’s Dream is Book Two (and the conclusion) in the Marta’s Legacy series. Although the book is over 500 pages long, I found it to be an engaging read and very hard to put down. Francine has a way of drawing her readers in and making them feel like they are right there with the characters in the story.
Although I didn’t read the first...more
Although I didn’t read the first...more
Francine Rivers
2010
Fiction/General
Tyndale
Reviewed by Cindy Loven
Her Daughter's Dream, takes up right where Her Mother's Hope left off. Francine Rivers, has such a wonderful gift of telling a story, that it will stand alone without reading the first book, but it does help to know the story of the first book.
Marta, now known as Oma has come to the realization that she should have done some things in her life different, perhaps a bit of kindness with Hildemara, instead of the harshness she had sho...more
2010
Fiction/General
Tyndale
Reviewed by Cindy Loven
Her Daughter's Dream, takes up right where Her Mother's Hope left off. Francine Rivers, has such a wonderful gift of telling a story, that it will stand alone without reading the first book, but it does help to know the story of the first book.
Marta, now known as Oma has come to the realization that she should have done some things in her life different, perhaps a bit of kindness with Hildemara, instead of the harshness she had sho...more
It took four generations for the hurts and anger and bickering between a family of four women to come to an end. "Her Daughter's Dream" continues the story begun in book one, Her Mother's Hope and they should be read one right after the other. Which is what I did.
There are so many character struggles in this book. So much heartache, so much learning to be done and through it all I did find myself a bit indifferent. But there were many moments though the book that tugged at my emotions. Both joy...more
There are so many character struggles in this book. So much heartache, so much learning to be done and through it all I did find myself a bit indifferent. But there were many moments though the book that tugged at my emotions. Both joy...more
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As I wrote in my review of Her Mother's Hope (the first book in this series), you will NEED to read this book, when you finish that one! I don't remember when, or if, I've ever read a series that held me captive from the very beginning to the end, as this did.
I kept wishing I could grab these women and shake some sense into them, so they could see what they were doing to each other. May Flower Dawn was the saving grace in this family, as you knew she would be. There is a lot of anger & sadne...more
I kept wishing I could grab these women and shake some sense into them, so they could see what they were doing to each other. May Flower Dawn was the saving grace in this family, as you knew she would be. There is a lot of anger & sadne...more
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The first book had me hooked enough to finish reading Marta's Legacy. Once again, I was interested in the storyline and the characters kept me reading. The writing makes it an easy read and keeps you wanting to find out what happens.
Unfortunately, all of the characters in the book seem very stubborn and tight-lipped, at least when it comes to mother-daughter communications. The story focuses on mother-daughter relationships, but the message seems to be more that only mother-grandaughter relatio...more
Unfortunately, all of the characters in the book seem very stubborn and tight-lipped, at least when it comes to mother-daughter communications. The story focuses on mother-daughter relationships, but the message seems to be more that only mother-grandaughter relatio...more
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Francine Rivers purpose in writing this book was to show the world the love that mothers have for their daughters can be so strong that mothers are whiling to do whatever it takes to raise their children into strong faithful women. She shows the reader that without communication a situation can be so misleading and misunderstood to the point that, it can drive a relationship so drastically apart over time. The impact this book has on the audience is very heavy due to the way Rivers describes the...more
Very good book. This is the second part of the story, the first being 'Her Mother's Hope'. I think it could stand alone and is the better of the two but of course reading the first one first gives richer history. A quote from the book that summarizes the 'moral' (without giving away any of the story) is "We try to do a little better than the previous generations and find out in th end we've made the same mistakes without intending. Instead of striving to love as God first loved us, we let past h...more
All the tragedy page after page at the beginning of the book was frustrating and depressing to get through. It finally started to turn a corner with the birth of May Flower Dawn. Once this character joined the mix, I really started to enjoy the book. It is such a lesson in how miscommunication and past hurts can really hinder relationships and the importance of taking the time to talk things out to understand where someone is coming from if you really care about the relationship. The underlying...more
Her Daughter's Dream Her Daughter's Dream is the sequel to Her Mother's Hope Her Mother's Hope . This book does an awesome job of exploring the Mother/daughter relationship and how misunderstandings in the relationship can easily happen. It also explores how this can be passed down generation to generation as it portrays the lives of four generations of women in the family ( throughout both of the books). It brings out that only God can heal those hurts if we let Him. I found the characters and...more
I am a bit at odds with how I really feel about this book. The very premise of the lack of necessary communication between mother and daughter, the resulting repressed feelings, the lashing out in harmful ways and the overall denial that there is anything essential to confront, became overly redundant for me. In fact, Oma (Marta) reiterated this process herself when she wrote in her journal to the extent that in the effort of one generation to raise the next generation by doing the opposite of w...more
I was not impressed by the first book. Boy was I wrong. The ending of this series made me realize that whether boring or exciting, a story has to start somewhere. In other words, it's not how you start but how you finish.
Francine Rivers has done it again. Although not one of my favorite of her books, it still holds its own. This book made me think about the relationships I have and how things that I do (or don't do) can be interpreted differently. Also on how I interpret others actions or words...more
Francine Rivers has done it again. Although not one of my favorite of her books, it still holds its own. This book made me think about the relationships I have and how things that I do (or don't do) can be interpreted differently. Also on how I interpret others actions or words...more
I am such a fan of Francine Rivers. Christian Fiction can sometimes be cheesy, or just cleaned up Harlequin style romance novels. Rivers has always written with depth, bringing out spiritual truths. In this series (this is book 2/2), relationships between generations of women are explored. We see where dysfunction enters, and how it begins to be transformed through grace and through truth. I related to so many aspects of this story as I thought about my mother, grandmother, and great grandmother...more
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New York Times best-selling author Francine Rivers began her literary career at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in English and journalism. From 1976 to 1985, she had a successful writing career in the general market, and her books were highly acclaimed by readers and reviewers. Although raised in a religious home, Francine did not truly encounter...more
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