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April 2018

April 27, 2018

Voice in the Wind: Mischaracter Summaries

Many of my readers here noted that Rivers was a romance novel author before she...

April 20, 2018

Voice in the Wind: Some Original Research

Ah, so this is interesting: Rivers' view of research is to read primary sources like Josephus...

April 13, 2018

Voice in the Wind: A Study in Abusive Men

As far as I can make out, there is only one real difference between Michael...

April 06, 2018

Voice in the Wind: Hadassah Is Saved by a Doctor (and her Mojo)

What started as a joke about Hadassah's "mojo" has turned out to be anything but....

March 2018

March 30, 2018

Voice in the Wind: A Fatal Miscalculation

Julia has miscalculated so badly it is almost painful. I'm not sure I've ever read...

March 23, 2018

Voice in the Wind: Freedom from Fear

Hadassah is being kept in a dank cell with a "mass" of other prisoners, most...

March 16, 2018

Voice in the Wind: The Odd Message of Hadassah’s Life

Vitellius, you see, is an anti-semite. And that sash? It really does identify her as...

March 09, 2018

Voice in the Wind: Weirdest Proposal Ever

Ok, Marcus, protip. Have the documents drawn up first. Be 100% sure that Hadassah is...

March 02, 2018

Voice in the Wind: Is Calabah a Vampire?

Rivers, through Calabah's language about "a man's issue," is almost certainly trying to connect Julia's...

February 2018

February 23, 2018

Voice in the Wind: Marcus, King of Gaslighting

WTF with Marcus just showing up like this. He's intending to marry Hadassah, as we'll...

February 16, 2018

Voice in the Wind: Hadassah Is Given in Marriage (Sort Of)

So technically Hadassah did what Julia told her to do---Atretes definitely seems to have believed...

February 09, 2018

Voice in the Wind: The Bottom Falls Out

But that is not why Marcus has come. He has come because, like everyone else,...

February 02, 2018

Voice in the Wind: Things Go Downhill

Julia is taking out her own pain and confusion on Hadassah. She desperately wants Atretes...

January 2018

January 26, 2018

Voice in the Wind: A Web of Misunderstanding

This is one of those moments where the whole story could have gone in a...

January 19, 2018

Voice in the Wind: Julia Breaks Free

And Julia? Damn, girl. Rivers seems to think that she's governed by Calabah now---because apparently...

January 12, 2018

Voice in the Wind: An Anti-Semitic Gospel

In general, evangelicals are not cognizant enough of the problems with the narrative that is...

January 05, 2018

Voice in the Wind: Calabah Hatches a Plan

Calabah is a straw feminist. The thing is, an actual feminist would respond to situations...

December 2017

December 29, 2017

Voice in the Wind: Meet Abuser #3

You know what? I'd be more concerned about Julia's imperfections if she hadn't been dealt...

December 22, 2017

Voice in the Wind: Julia Cares, Y’all

Early Christians wouldn't have told people to "ask Jesus to come into your heart." That...

December 15, 2017

Voice in the Wind: The Worldly Woman Returns

Calabah comes in and sweet-talks her way back into Julia's life, and all we get...

December 08, 2017

Voice in the Wind: Temple Prostitute

As I read this section, I actually felt fairly happy for Julia. She has been...

December 01, 2017

Voice in the Wind: Attempted Rape

There are lots of trashy romance novels out there. LOTS. The problem is that, as...

November 2017

November 24, 2017

Voice in the Wind: Ephesus, and Thoughts on Genre

I'm not sure whether Rivers realizes this, but this book is beginning to read something...

November 17, 2017

Voice in the Wind: Marcus, the Evangelicals’ Abuser

This book was never light, but it has grown darker in the last few months...

November 10, 2017

Voice in the Wind: A Religion of Rules

What's weird, here, is that Hadassah is a literal slave, but the questions being grappled...

November 03, 2017

Voice in the Wind: Marcus Gets Angry

Do you know what I learned from this passage? I learned that Marcus hasn't done...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

Voice in the Wind: The End of Innocence

In Rivers' telling, Hadassah does nothing but serve, and her purity and "pristine beliefs" are...

October 20, 2017

Voice in the Wind: This Is Not a Good Look on Marcus

As I've already let on, one thing that eats at Julia as this book goes...

October 13, 2017

Voice in the Wind: Marcus Makes His Move

This is a tactic and a rhetoric that abusers use. It's the "you know you...

October 06, 2017

Voice in the Wind: Those Very Evangelical Persecuted Early Christians

Marcus' claim that he could have Hadassah killed for being a Christian, in 75 AD,...