Mary Magdalene
A Novel

2.5 stars Mary Magdalene, a rather enigmatic and fascinating Bible character whom we don't know much about, comes alive in this rather interesting take on her story. We know Mary as a woman of ill-repute, a sinner and a prostitute, and we also know that she was possessed by demons. She was marginali......more

While at this point I am fairly certain that I can tell you that Mesu Andrews is perhaps my favorite Biblical Christian Historical Fiction author, because of her books I have a big desire to jump more into other Biblical retellings. Diana Wallis Taylor is an author that many of my friends recommend......more

Diana Wallis Taylor does an excellent job of nailing down biblical fiction, she is in a class with a few others who do this job very well. I love biblical fiction that causes me to go back to scripture and dig into it more deeply. This story is about one of the women of the bible that who has had de......more

I enjoyed this story. There were parts toward the end that were just like the stories in the gospels, so that came together nicely. Mary's descent into darkness following her childhood trauma was believably written. I cannot imagine how horrible it was for her or her husband to have that experience.......more

Although written as a novel, it was an excellent study of Mary Magdalene, the one from whom Jesus had cast out seven demons and recorded in the Bible as the first person to see the risen Jesus. “Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of who......more