Shadowed in Silk Christine Lindsay 9780976544494 Books
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Winner of the American Christian Fiction Writers' Genesis Award for Historical. Winner of The Grace Award for Adventure Action Epic, and finalist for Readers' Favorite.
Reviewed by Joy H. for Reader's Favorites "At times I couldn't put the book down, because I was determined to find out what was going to happen next. I was scared for Abby and Geoff many times as so much was happening. All these make this an awesome book to read. I encourage you to grab a copy of this book to read and enjoy for yourself. I think you will find it interesting and intriguing. It is a book that will stay with you long after you finish its pages."
She was invisible to those who should have loved her.
After the Great War, Abby Fraser returns to India with her small son, where her husband is stationed with the British army. She has longed to go home to the land of glittering palaces and veiled women . . . but Nick has become a cruel stranger. It will take more than her American pluck to survive.
Major Geoff Richards, broken over the loss of so many of his men in the trenches of France, returns to his cavalry post in Amritsar. But his faith does little to help him understand the ruthlessness of his British peers toward the Indian people he loves. Nor does it explain how he is to protect Abby Fraser and her child from the husband who mistreats them.
Amid political unrest, inhospitable deserts, and Russian spies, tensions rise in India as the people cry for the freedom espoused by Gandhi. Caught between their own ideals and duty, Geoff and Abby stumble into sinister secrets . . . secrets that will thrust them out of the shadows and straight into the fire of revolution.
Shadowed in Silk Christine Lindsay 9780976544494 Books
This book took me by surprise.I didn't read the blurb, preferring instead to go into the book "blind." It was a bit of a difficult book for me to get into - rather confusing. In fact, there were several times that I nearly went and read the blurb just so I could try and make sense of what was going on.
After I got into the book though? I was totally caught up in the time period and setting. Books that include wars are horrifying, but so enlightening to me. I want to shove them in people's faces while yelling about how history repeats itself and to watch out.
This book was stomach-turningly sad without adding (what I consider) unnecessary details. Everything felt so real, so vivid. So beautiful and sad and manipulating all at once. The characters felt real, and the did things they shouldn't have done, and messed up, and grew, and reacted in ways that I was sometimes frustrated with, but that made sense.
The main character did some stuff that was really not good, but the way the author portrayed it was a way that I really appreciate - no sugarcoating or okaying wrong things. And the reasoning the character had made way too much sense. (Meaning, it was really well written.)
I'm not sure who I would recommend this book to because there were some things - violence, unfaithfulness, abuse, etc... - but, it was all written in a way that I was okay with, even though it was very sad.
Overall this book captured my attention and made me want to study more about that time period. I'm very impressed. It was quite hard to put the book down.
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Shadowed in Silk Christine Lindsay 9780976544494 Books Reviews
Christine Lindsay takes us away to exotic, far away India in the early 1900s, a land of turbans and sari's, spicy foods, fragant flowers, and silk! However, it is also a land of great political and religious unrest under the regime of the British Raj. Abby Frazer has not seen her husband in four years, and she excitedly returns to India to be reunited with him, along with their little son, Cam, whom Nick has never seen. Abby is surprised when she descends from the ship, to find that Nick isn't even there, and she must travel three days alone by train, if not for the kindness of Major Geoff Edwards, a man she met on board ship.
Geoff Richards still suffers the horrors of war, and the loss of not only many of his comrades, but his lovely wife and child as well. Feeling sympathy for Abby, and a great affection towards Cam, he escorts them to their new home and promises the boy he will return to see him. However, something is terribly amiss when Abby arrives and the servant puts her bags in a guestroom and she smells a jasmine scent coming from Nick's room. Who is the lovely, Tikah, who mysteriously flits about the house, and why does she seem to hate Abby? As time goes on, Abby realizes that Nick is very abusive, but still does her best to salvage her marriage.
Soon bedlam breaks out and many are killed and wounded, and in her loneliness and feelings of rejection, Abby does something very foolish to endanger her son's life. Will the God that Geoff believes in hear her prayers and save Cam before it is too late? Will Geoff be able to stifle his feelings towards Abby; an abused, but married woman, and also find healing for his own troubled soul? And who is the traitor among them who is a wolf in sheep's clothing?
I was hooked from page one and literally burned the midnight oil reading this one, something I haven't done in a long while! This novel was filled with excitement, romance, and non-stop action! Fabulous job, Christine Lindsay!
I read the description of this novel and was slightly put off, I'd never been particularly interested in British India nor its early twentieth century imperialism. But I had read the sample on and was very impressed with the depth of the authors historical detail and her writing style. Both were exceptional and it was hard to resist buying the novel. Even at a higher price it is worth it. The main characters, Abby, Geoff, Miriam, Eshana and a host of other secondary characters were well fleshed out. Each had depth, consistency and real human flaws. Even many secondary characters came to life, not just cardboard people stuck in a scene as with other authors.
The history too came to life under the author's hand. While she was adept at weaving the facts and figures of real British India of 1918-1919, I found her intriguing detail pulling me to the history texts time and again, wondering about Reginald Dyer, for example, and the political turmoil of the times. The author stuck to her story line and introduced detail in fine fashion by only giving the reader the tidbits that directly related to the characters and their lives. But it whetted my appetite for more information. I say this to applaud her writing.
The only very minor thing I could note as a distraction was the use of Indian terms hard to understand. Silly me, this reader forgot that many authors put a glossary up front. I used Google however. And the context was easy to follow in most cases. My fault really but occasionally it seemed distracting. On the other hand, many terms were unavoidable due to the times and the culture as well as the fact that all the characters were familiar with the culture, so the author couldn't insert an unnecessary explanation into the story.
In summary, it was the story of Abby, who is an American, the daughter of a British General and an American mother, both deceased when the story begins. Abby and her son, Cam, a toddler, are returning to India, her home when she was a girl. She is rejoining her husband, Nick, a British lieutenant, whom she married while he and she were in England. On the boat over she and Cam are befriended by Geoff, a British major. We briefly meet and get to know Miriam, who is Geoff' s spiritual mother, a wonderful Indian woman who runs a mission for the rescue of "temple women" (as another reviewer mentioned, shades of Amy Carmichael, a real missionary whose story can be read in Elisabeth Elliots work about her, "A Chance to Die"). Nick is nowhere to be found when they arrive and Geoff helps her reunite with her husband. The ensuing months are filled with intrigue and both hardship and growth for both main characters as Abby tries to reconnect with Nick (who seems less-than-enthusiastic about their marriage) and Geoff, who is charged by his commanding officer with trying to sleuth out missing rifles and a possible Russian spy as well as dealing with Indian riots and other India civil upheaval of the time. The primary event of the Jalianwala Bagh massacre of the time, the outrage of the Indian people against the very well described British indifference and British atrocities and attitude of superiority were interwoven with Abby as she deals with her failing marriage, her motherhood of Cam, her love for the Indian culture and life and her relationships with the Christian women of the mission on the one hand and the British memsahibs and sahibs, many of whom displayed the British arrogance of the times, on the other. At the same time Geoff, a widower, who has other demons in his life from wartime in France (recently returned from a bloody battlefield), is also trying to reenter his military life but feels drawn to help Abby and Cam in their struggles.
This is a romantic, Christian novel. How, you ask? You will have to read it. I thought the outcome might become predictable, but, while you can already see what might happen, the details were well-done.
One reviewer seemed to note the end was a little too quickly wrapped up. I both agree and disagree, but couldn't exactly pinpoint how to describe it. My personal issue was more the fact that some of the scenes with the villain and Abby seemed to follow a slightly predictably melodramatic outline. But Abby' s strengths (crack shot) belied that at certain points. She had her definite flaws and the inner struggle she showed were well described but she also had a steel backbone. Geoff too, his inner struggles with what was essentially a judgemental attitude as a follower of Christ as well as with PTSD were very realistically portrayed.
For believers, the Christian element was extraordinarily well meshed with history and character development. Nothing was "preached" at the reader, it was all lived-out in the lives and struggles of Miriam, Eshana and Geoff . The two women exuded the love of Christ and Geoff grew as he struggled with his own failings. I personally thought Eshana was too perfect but the scriptural wisdom of "he who is forgiven much, loves much" being evident in her life was believable. She was not complete as a character BUT I already knew from reading summaries of the other two novels in the series that she has her own story, told elsewhere, and the author only included enough detail in this first novel to make her character believable.
All in all I'd say 4.5 stars. Since I am inherently conservative in my stars, I rounded to 4 but I might come back, it's probably worth 5.
This book took me by surprise.
I didn't read the blurb, preferring instead to go into the book "blind." It was a bit of a difficult book for me to get into - rather confusing. In fact, there were several times that I nearly went and read the blurb just so I could try and make sense of what was going on.
After I got into the book though? I was totally caught up in the time period and setting. Books that include wars are horrifying, but so enlightening to me. I want to shove them in people's faces while yelling about how history repeats itself and to watch out.
This book was stomach-turningly sad without adding (what I consider) unnecessary details. Everything felt so real, so vivid. So beautiful and sad and manipulating all at once. The characters felt real, and the did things they shouldn't have done, and messed up, and grew, and reacted in ways that I was sometimes frustrated with, but that made sense.
The main character did some stuff that was really not good, but the way the author portrayed it was a way that I really appreciate - no sugarcoating or okaying wrong things. And the reasoning the character had made way too much sense. (Meaning, it was really well written.)
I'm not sure who I would recommend this book to because there were some things - violence, unfaithfulness, abuse, etc... - but, it was all written in a way that I was okay with, even though it was very sad.
Overall this book captured my attention and made me want to study more about that time period. I'm very impressed. It was quite hard to put the book down.
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