Writing style
Descriptive · Direct
Apple BooksRedeeming Love
Romance · Allegory
- First published
- 1991
- Print length
- 416 pagesFanfare / Bantam Books, 1991
Description
Redeeming Love is a historical romance set during California’s 1850s Gold Rush and inspired by the biblical Book of Hosea. The story opens in New England in 1835, where young Sarah learns that she was born from her mother’s affair with Alex Stafford. Raised amid prostitution and the surrounding town’s rejection, she becomes emotionally guarded and is orphaned after her mother dies. After years of captivity, she escapes and reaches California, only to be taken into a brothel. There, under the name Angel, she becomes a guarded, high-priced prostitute whose earnings are withheld, placing her life within the novel’s larger focus on divine redeeming love.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Moderate
Tone
Dark · Earnest · Hopeful · Romantic
Structure
Linear
Focus
Character · Ideas · Relationships
Emotional intensity
5 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 3 / 5
- Structure
- 3 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 2 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Fanfare / Bantam Books
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553293685
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