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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6219.Kristin_Lavransdatter_III_The_Cross?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555558m/6219.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6219.Kristin_Lavransdatter_III_The_Cross?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4203.Sigrid_Undset">Sigrid Undset</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24583688?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>I've been following and scrutinizing the life of Kristin Lavarnsdatter and the people that surrounded her for more than a month now. Certainly an epic story, multiple plots intertwined filled with love, death, birth, scandal, betrayal, politics, confusion, sin and more sin. i enjoyed getting wrapped up in the mid-evil culture and Nordic life style with all the poetic descriptions of the geography, homesteads, and celebrations. And the church with all of it's flaws and beauties was there within every inch of every sentence-ahh. there were times that I so desired to drop my reformist convictions long enough to go run to a confessional and experience the comfort of a little righteousness via works. <br/>There were too many characters that I loved to name them all; but Kristin-my feelings towards her and her life choices wandered in different directions through each of the books. It took nearly 500 of the 1000 plus pages of the trilogy before I acknowledged to myself that many of my frustrations with Kristin were a result of my unfair judging of her realness, she just wasn't the pure, fair and righteous heroine that I felt she should have been. But ultimately, in the end, in the last few pages, she let go and was. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/258722?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>