Review: Without Rival: Embrace Your Identity and Purpose in an Age of Confusion and Comparison

Without Rival: Embrace Your Identity and Purpose in an Age of Confusion and Comparison by Lisa Bevere
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

I started reading this long ago through Prime Reading. This is the one book that I could not finish in my memory.

I started reading it without having any idea of what kind of book this would be. That's how I like to start reading my books, by letting the book tell me what it is, rather than any description written by someone else. So I didn't know that this would be 1) a self-help book, 2) a Christian self-help book, and 3) a feminist Christian self-help book.

All three of those things are strikes against the book, but none of them would have caused me to stop reading, even in combination. The reason why I stopped reading was the way Bevere "quoted" the Bible. I don't know if this is common in Christian self-help books, but it seemed to me that Bevere paraphrased the Bible in whatever way convenient to her message, and printed it as a direct quote. Now I realize the quotes are from the Message Bible from reading some of the other reviews here, but that doesn't make me want to read that or this book.

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