Redeeming Love

by Francine Rivers

Disgusting Michael and who you calling soiled dove, you self righteous judgmental “godly” man? Don’t go asking like you weren’t hoping for an ounce of her attention now, show some respect

Oh Michael is so great, “impressive body” okay then explain to me what he got? Present to me the details otherwise I’m imagining a chicken with a cowboy hat

F*ck you Michael, what if she doesn’t want you? Take the hint and hit the road you pathetic loser.

For the love of god, leave the poor woman alone, she doesn’t want or need you coming like a knight in shining armor idiot

Oh how very presumptuous of you Michael Hosea… you suck

Oh how VERY PRESUMPTUOUS of you to think she is going to marry you especially now that you have confessed that’s your plan for paying a visit to her, acting like you will save her like she asked for your help dumbass just go back to selling vegetables and mind ya business

Excuse me you have no right to who she is, so hit the road you naive fool

Basically this book is just telling ladies “hey if he wears you down, he could be the one” while it’s telling men “hey you can wear her down, just don’t give up or take no for an answer” which I think is a harmful and dangerous message to be taken from this stupid book with a terrible love interest and a poor protagonist who suffers so much just to be “saved” by this holier than thou man who acts like he is the answer to her prayers.

I don’t appreciate the fat shaming here so -1 point

Okay all this shaming is really bad and sad to hear/read, I wish the portrayal of these women was something more united and showing togetherness since they all understand their own dire situations so I’d like to think they all could have each others backs when no one else does, they are all just trying to survive

Leave her alone you loser

Lol rapped twice

You don’t get to be mad for her not reciprocating your feelings, just LEAVE HER ALONE MAN

Go away, mind your own goddamn business and let her be, it doesn’t matter if you don’t like the way she lives her life, you don’t get to choose how she lives

You don’t get to judge her you asshole, she didn’t ask for you to come and waste your money (gold dust) just to talk and try to somehow convince her to run off and be your wife so you don’t get to be mad and angry at her that she isn’t doing what you want and now you lost a lot of gold dust, in your own words, “all for nothing”

Ew he kissed her

Omg is that supposed to be god talking to him?! Lol

No, Lord. No! I’m just another faceless man in a long line of faceless men in her life. This can’t be what you had in mind!”

Hypocrite Michael

As soon as he got back to his valley and forgot about that hell-bound girl, he would feel better.

I would probably feel better too so yeah go away

And the next time he prayed for God to send him a woman to share his life, he would be a lot more specific about the kind he wanted.

🖕🖕

If only she could be like one of those mountain men who went out into the wilderness and stayed there, hunting their food and building their own shelter and never having to answer to another living soul for anything. Just to be left alone, that must be heaven.

This should have been her destiny. This was her dream, why couldn’t she have the one thing she wanted

A man doesn’t want a harlot for a wife. Men say all kinds of foolish things when they’re lonely and aching for a woman and there’s no one else around. Ah, but they come to their senses quick enough.

Ba Dim Tss

“How many men have I served so you can stuff yourself like a pig and dress up like a grotesque parody of royalty? Duchess from where? Duchess of what? You’re nothing but a fat old harlot no man wants anymore!”

There was always going to be someone to enslave and use her, someone to profit from her flesh and her blood.

~Michael Hosea~

He couldn’t escape her. She danced before him, like Salome before King Herod.

Mara, wait!

F*ck you Michael

Lucky looked up at him. “Get her out of there, Mister. Even if you don’t care anymore, even if Angel don’t. Just get her out of there.”

Bad friend, Michael is a bad man

“I’ll leave, all right,” Michael answered. “And I’m taking her with me.”

Kidnapping ???

“I want to marry you before we leave together.”

…This idiot cannot read the damn room, that’s not a priority right now Hosea!!

Someone took her hand. She thought it was Lucky at first, but Lucky’s hand was soft and small. This one was large and hard, the skin rough with calluses. “Just say yes.”

Coercion, really Michael?? This is not the time or place to be trying to propose to Sarah/angel, she is beaten up and falling into unconsciousness so stop!!

She would agree to wed Satan himself if it would get her out of the Palace. “Why not?” she managed.

Same girl but also sorry you gotta marry this Hosea joker

Angel wanted to ask who she had married, but what did it matter? The pain gradually receded. She was so tired. Maybe she would die after all. It would all be over then.

💡

“Do you feel up to eating something, Mara?” Mara.

Once again, f*ck you Michael

Of all the men in the world, it had to be him.

I’m asking myself the same thing.

“I’m not going to hurt you, Mara,” he said gently. “I love you.”

Ewww

“Angel is who I am.”

That’s right Hosea…b*tch, it’s her stage name obviously but like you don’t have the right to her actual name

“I’m a patient man.”

Liar

“Relax.” His caress was neither exploring nor intimate, and she eased. “By the way,” he said, “my name is Michael. Michael Hosea. In case you didn’t remember.”

I wish I could forget

“God sent me.”

Yeah and he was very pushy about it while you were self righteous and judgmental, wishing that god sent you a whole other woman that wasn’t a prostitute

“I want everything.”

Again eww

Rather than be free, she was in bondage to another man.

EXACTLY, this is not what she wants!!! She shouldn’t have to give into it, he should have just helped her as the god loving man that he was and not kidnap her then forcing her into marriage in order to “help” angel/Sarah

Hosea was the one man she had wanted most to avoid, and now he owned her.

A nightmare

Worse, she had to rely on him for food, water, shelter—everything.

Her utter dependency on him chafed bitterly. She was raw with it. And she hated him...

He was a mountain of granite. She could not wound him. His quiet determination unnerved her.

Lies, she bothered him before when she was “tempting” him

She just wanted him to leave her alone.

You and me both girl

Angel felt a trap closing in on her.

She wanted to ignore him, but he filled the cabin with his presence. Even

We get it, Michael is like god I guess tbh I don’t know the original story (I’ll read it later)

With nothing else to occupy her, she did. And he was right. The silence changed, and she heard sounds breaking through. It was like the rain used to be when she put out the shiny tins in the dark little shack.

Poor angel, she deserves so much better than “I’m a nice guy” incel Michael. You suck my guy Also the whole beating angel almost to death was a lot like she is so vulnerable right now and hear Michael walks up like a little creep thinking “here’s my chance to trap her as my wife” disgusting piece of sh*t ALSO clearly the author is not able to properly write about all these kinds of things like abuse and the difference between sex work and prostitution and child trafficking AND how to practice empathy apparently, it’s clear in her writing and I wish she just never tried to handle this subject and MAKE IT INTO A LOVE STORY HE IS GROOMING HER, he is 26 and she is 18, ugh sicko He should have helped her be able to work her way into getting her own little place like a cabin and be self sufficient because that’s what she truly wants, respect her dreams asshole When she falls for him, that is literally Stockholm syndrome

Finally, Angel stood on her own feet.

Look if he respected her, he would have waited for her to show the same feelings toward him that he has for her. Wouldn’t it be better if she reciprocated them as your wife I mean, you forced her into a marriage she didn’t want and you are just trying to wear her down because she has no other options and you are exploiting her when she is in a vulnerable state. I believe the gestures would have been more genuine and wonderful if he didn’t marry her while she was almost unconscious and barely able to understand what was happening (consent cannot be given if she is not in her most sober, consciously aware state) like couldn’t you just be a good person, a good Christian even, and help this woman by just giving her the food, shelter, and time to heal and then let her decide what she wants without having to deal with being tied to a man she is obviously uncomfortable with 🙄🙄