The Nativity Story
Written by Angela Hunt
Narrated by Renee Raudman
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Angela Hunt
Angela Hunt (AngelaHuntBooks.com) is a New York Times bestselling author of more than 160 books, with nearly 6 million copies sold worldwide. Angela's novels have won or been nominated for the RWA RITA Award, the Christy Award, the ECPA Christian Book Award, and the HOLT Medallion. Four of her novels have received ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award, and Angela is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from both the Romantic Times Book Club and ACFW. Angela holds doctorates in biblical studies and theology. She and her husband make their home in Florida with mastiffs and chickens.
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Reviews for The Nativity Story
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5All was not calm on that long-ago evening in Bethlehem; all was not bright. For desperation shadowed the hearts of men, and evil fully intended to blot out the light.And then begins The Nativity Story by author Angela Hunt, based on the screenplay by Mike Rich. Given that the film is one of my all-time favorites, I was (years late but) excited to find out this novelization exists.This isn't the first novel I've read based on the biblical account of the nativity, and the movie certainly wasn't the first or only dramatization I've seen. So I was glad to find that a few of Mary's and Joseph's questions and uncertainties in this book are ones I hadn't seen before.Even so, I can't say the characters fully came alive for me in this novel, and my interest in the story dipped at times. One minor but important character's storyline ends with a disturbing question that's never answered for him, and the characters who appear in the modern-day prologue don't appear again. I don't like to find out that a prologue is just a standalone scene that doesn't tie in later and that the rest of the story doesn't need.Still, I appreciate that this novel illustrates the darker, unjust, and violent side to this story, giving the light its meaningful backdrop. (I especially would not have wanted to be a woman living in that time and culture.) And my favorite parts of the story surround the shifting and shining of that brilliant star in the sky...
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A good adaptation. I kind of hoped the author would have expanded the story some, but I enjoyed it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved listening to this version of THE Christmas Story. Only halfway through did I realize this was the book that the film was adapted from. Watching that movie at a younger age has helped shape how I view Joseph & Mary during this time so it was very cool to gain even more empathy through this book.