A Lineage of Grace

Five Stories of Unlikely Women Who Changed Eternity

2009 Retailer's Choice Award winner!

In this compilation of the five books in the best-selling Lineage of Grace series by Francine Rivers, we meet the five women whom God chose - Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary. Each was faced with extraordinary - even scandalous - challenges. Each took great personal risk to fulfill her calling. Each was destined to play a key role in the lineage of Jesus Christ, the savior of the World.

©2009 Francine Rivers (P)2019 Francine Rivers

A Joy to Listen

it was a joy to experience the lives of these biblical ladies through the eyes of Francine.

Dislike narration

This book is full of my pet peeve, a narrator’s miss pronunciation of basic words. “Didn’t,” “wouldn’t” and “couldn’t” are not pronounced correctly but they come out as “dinent,” “counent,” “wounent.” The T’s and D’s at the ends of words are altogether dropped. Also words like “skin,” “chin” and “him” are pronounced with “e” instead of “i” resulting in her “lifting her ‘chen’ to ‘hem.’” So annoying. I find myself focusing more to the poor pronunciation then to the story itself.

Narrator low vote!

The Narrator voice was not pleasant for me to listen to. Speeding it up made it worse!

Interesting perspectives

I enjoyed the story, but I was really distracted by the narrator's accent and odd pronunciations.

Couldn’t stop listening!

The stories the author wrote about women who lived in biblical times, highlighted their were incredible strength and devotion to God. Fantastic writing skill held me at the edge of my seat! I have already listened to two of Francine’s books and plan to listen to more!