She has been trained her whole life not to feel anything so emotionally she is like a child and it was such a beautiful and emotional journey to go with her on her discovery of emotions and how they don't make you weak as she was always lead to believe but how they can be your strength. Your novel brings together two stories about male/female relationships: Douglas Cheeseman and Harley Savage, and Alfred Chang and Felicity Porcelline. Faith has expertly weaved her personal struggles and cultural background together with gospel truth and historical example to produce a deeply comforting and fresh exploration of Christian perfectionism. Desk and exam copies of certain titles are available to lecturers who wish to consider books as course texts.

I love how she recognized her shortcomings and realized that she may be smart but that she still has a lot to learn. The creator, Der Vater, is equally disturbing and demonstrates some very good life lessons for us all.eye roll* I like romance in books, but it happened too quickly and they felt too strongly for each other. Your narration permits us to observe events from three different points of view: Harley’s, Douglas’s, and Felicity’s.

Shaker: Function, Purity, Perfection is an homage to the traditional Shaker values of grace and simplicity. This is a great futuristic concept where appearance and superiority are everything and the only thing keeping you alive depends on the whether you have blond hair and blue eyes. And because all the sidekicks showed interesting layers, just like the protagonists, I cannot wait to find out more about all of them, and to meet even more new characters. What effects do various kinds of “old horrors” have on the way Grenville’s characters live their lives?In my anxious pursuit of perfection, Chang points me to Christ—the founder and perfecter of our faith—and his perfect love casts out my fear. Thus, failure to succeed is figured as personal rather than a result of an unequal societal structure. It can be argued that a person’s failings and self-criticisms engage sympathy only up to a point, after which we are more likely to feel annoyance and frustration. Now it’s not enough to have blonde hair and blue eyes, but you have to have the right shade of hair and eyes.