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What I Thought of Indivisible & Should I See the Movie?

by Chautona Havig · 8 Comments

“The book’s always better than the movie.”

How many times have we heard that?  And it’s almost always true  I actually liked the end of The Count of Monte  Cristo in the movie better than the book.  The movie offers redemption that isn’t in the book.

But mostly, yeah.  If there’s a book, I’m usually going to prefer it to the movie adaptation. But here’s the thing. What if the movie came first?

The blog tour information came up, and I read carefully.  It was a novelization of a movie instead of the other way around. That left me wondering.  Would the book or the movie be better this time?

What I Thought of Indivisible & Should I See the Movie?

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What I Thought of Indivisible & Should I See the Movie?

Look, I live in a military town.  I’ve seen the pain of deployments and the aftermath in families. I expected it to be a hard book.  And it was.

Unfortunately, most of what was hard was slogging through the narrative. The book read almost like a diary of events but not written in a diary style. Because of that, I felt disconnected from the characters.

Now I cared enough to keep reading even when it dragged and dragged, but not enough that I didn’t have to flip back every now and then because I found myself skimming.

Add to that bizarre lapses into present tense for reasons I feel like I should know but never made themselves obvious, and it was just a difficult, uninteresting read.

Frankly, I feel heartless at the end of it. Because real people were hurting in the pages of that book, and I really didn’t care. It was a very disconnected, “that’s sad” instead of feeling my heart ripped out for them.

As a movie?

I sure hope they manage to tell a cohesive story in a way that holds viewers’ attention because if they do with the movie what happened with the book, an important film is going to flop.  And I’d really hate to see that happen.

As for the Turners, I pray for them.  Why?  Because while I read with a detached attitude about the events in this book, they lived them.  And though it is obvious that they’ve healed from all they went through, the scars are still there.

I appreciate their service to our country—all of them.

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  1. Debra Branigan says

    October 11, 2018 at 9:31 am

    Thank you for hosting the book. I enjoyed looking over your site.

    Reply
    • Chautona Havig says

      October 11, 2018 at 3:21 pm

      My review is finally up. I just was too sick to do it when I was supposed to. Woke up and added. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Susan (DE) says

    October 11, 2018 at 9:06 am

    I’m confused. I thought you were going to say what YOU thought about it? It’s a book, right? Soon to be a movie?

    Reply
    • Chautona Havig says

      October 11, 2018 at 3:22 pm

      It’s up now.

      Reply
  3. Paula Shreckhise says

    October 11, 2018 at 7:03 am

    Would love to read this book. We need more of this kind of story made into films.

    Reply
    • Chautona Havig says

      October 11, 2018 at 3:23 pm

      The review is finally up. This is actually the reverse. They made the screenplay and then novelized it.

      Reply
  4. Heather says

    October 11, 2018 at 5:41 am

    I can’t find your review – just the publisher’s notes about the book!

    Reply
    • Chautona Havig says

      October 11, 2018 at 3:24 pm

      It’s up finally. I was sick and it went up before I could get the review pasted in. 🙂

      Reply

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Before I began the interview with Naomi Craig about Ezekiel’s Song, I kind of went crazy and left it in to give you a chuckle. But Naomi and I chat about her upcoming release, why she chose to write about Ezekiel, and what areas she focused on. Listen in and hear her heart for the Word and for stimulating readers to love it and live it.

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The presence of the Lord is tangible when Shiriel sings in the temple, and her voice prepares the hearts of many to worship. When she is exiled to Babylon, her faith is shaken. Does the Lord’s presence extend beyond Jerusalem and His holy temple?

Ezekiel is struck mute and paralyzed as he begins his prophetic ministry, and Shiriel devises a plan to get the Lord’s message back to the unfaithful people of Judah. Shiriel struggles with discontentment as serving the Lord looks nothing like she’d imagined. Can she provide for her family and carry out her husband’s ministry when her joy is gone, and her own dreams are placed on hold?

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