Unafraid
Mary

I didn't like this book as much as the previous 4. She lost me at the beginning when she had 2 mary's in the same family... I mean really, 2 sisters both named Mary. The whole book was far too protestant for me. I would have only given it one star except it did do something good for me... i'm now mor......more

I really liked this book. I love reading fictional books that fill in what real people of the Bible's lives may have been like. I had never read one on Mary or Jesus as a child, and their family life. I thought the Author did an excellent job. She made Mary the mother of Jesus in this book very re......more

This book caught me off guard. In all honesty, I thought I had a general idea of how this book would go. I was mistaken. In the way only Francine Rivers can do, she took me deep into the heart of the story of Mary, and into the depths of what she must have experienced as the mother of Jesus. Not jus......more

3.5 stars, maybe? Unafraid tells the story of Mary (the mother of Jesus, not one of the other Marys that I always get mixed up with). It is the firth and last book of the Lineage of Grace series, which tells the story of the five women included in Jesus' lineage. Surprisingly, I didn't like Mary in th......more

"Unafraid" was an enjoyable, thought-provoking historical novella about Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. It sticks to the facts given in Scripture and then fills in the information not given in the Bible accounts with the author's ideas about what Mary and Joseph were like and so on. Readers might......more