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Lädt ... Televengevon Pamela King Cable
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Televenge takes the reader into the world of the mega-church. Not the nice, comfortable church around the corner but the 10,000 seat stadium kind of church. The kind led by charismatic leaders asking for money to "do God's work here on Earth." It is also a story about a fear; fear of God, fear of a pastor and fear of going to hell. It's a story about the manipulation of people and the use of that fear to keep the church growing and the congregation in line. It's also a love story. That is a lot of substance for one book and Televenge packs it all in and more. It does a really good job of it too! It kept me tapping my e-reader to keep the pages turning and despite its 584 page length I read it in a day and a half. The writing and the story just pulls you in and doesn't let you go. Andie is a woman reared with a strong faith in God and she falls in love with Joe Oliver whose family are ardent members of the House of Praise run by Calvin Artury. They believe Reverend Calvin is the only way they will find heaven when the Rapture comes. Despite some family objections Andie marries Joe right out of high school and dreams of a white picket fence and children. What she gets is a trailer park and Joe suddenly deciding - by Calvin's instruction - that there will be no kids. What follows is a twisty, turny very involved and heart rending tale of the control that one man can hold over people both simple and complicated. Calvin uses people to reach his goals, and he will reach them no matter what and no one is going to stop him. If anyone dares to try he has judges in his pocket and loyalists that will kill for him. No one can say a word against him. Andie manages to have children and when Calvin arranges for Joe to get custody she reaches the end of her rope and that's when she makes a life altering decision. Ms. Cable develops her plot slowly and surely so that you don't see the twists coming and many of them managed to catch me completely off guard. A couple I saw coming but many of them almost knocked me off of my chair. The characters were all very well defined and except for Calvin and a few ancillary church members they were a solid mix of good and bad. It really was difficult to put the book down! I did feel that it probably could have been a touch shorter and it wouldn't have hurt the overall book as the Job-ish section of Andi's fall into despair went on for seemingly forEVER. I was beginning to wonder if ANYTHING good would ever happen to the poor girl. Overall, though a fantastic read with a look into a world about which I knew absolutely nothing. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Andie Oliver is a faithful woman-to God, to her handsome husband Joe, and to televangelist Reverend Calvin Artury, a Godfather in a Mafia of holy men. Raised in the 1970's to be subservient and submissive in the tradition of the Bible-belt South, she becomes a prisoner of that tradition. As a reluctant member of Artury's evangelical megachurch, the House of Praise in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Andie's dream of children, home, and marriage falls apart when Joe is hired by the ministry team. Joe had been a gentle lover, a kind man, and a hard-working and faithful husband. Only lately had Andie felt him turn his attention more to church than her. The charismatic Reverend conducts faith-healing crusades, creating the largest religious television audience in the world, surpassing the income and followers of Oral Roberts and Billy Graham. Working limitless hours, Joe is sucked deeper into the ministry while Andie attempts to free him from the Reverend's control and far-reaching influence. But it is Mavis Dumass, Andie's best friend since birth, a sassy, gorgeous African-American woman and aspiring recording star, who holds the secrets to Reverend Artury's carefully veiled debauchery. Mavis is fiercely protective of Andie (and just as fiercely disdainful of both Joe and Reverend Artury). What happens to Mavis leaves Andie near mental collapse and struggling for freedom from the cult's grip. Andie is still unaware of the extreme danger their pastor wields until she witnesses the murder of a church member. Fearing for her life, she plummets from a dreadful existence into a horrific one as she uncovers Reverend Artury's long-hidden truths, and loses everything, including her children. But she strikes back, threatening to expose the Reverend to the world. Raised by two psychopathic aunts, Reverend Artury reverts to the twisted cleansings of his childhood. As his mental stability declines, Andie quickly realizes she must go into hiding. Fighting for redemption for her family and herself, Andie confronts the very definition of evil personified. Evading ruthless adversaries who will go to any lengths to protect Reverend Artury, Andie battles the darkest side of televangelism. Vivid and tragic, Televenge exposes chaos in the megachurch, and embraces those who discover their destiny in unconditional love in a world fraught with fear and intimidation. With more twists and turns than the Blue Ridge Parkway, Televenge takes you from the Piedmont South to the Hawaiian Islands, to Nigeria, Africa, and back to the high country of North Carolina. In pitch-perfect voices, Pamela King Cable's emotionally rich debut novel creates four extraordinary characters who will stay with the reader long after they finish the book. Suspensful and deeply moving, Televenge will be one of the most talked about books of the year. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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There are some graphic scenes of violence. That is the saddest part that the violence was done in the name of God. Through Andie's struggles however, we see that the real message of God is love and that love does indeed conquer.
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