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The Masterpiece
The Masterpiece | Francine Rivers
New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to her romance roots with this unexpected and redemptive love story, a probing tale that reminds us that mercy can shape even the most broken among us into an imperfect yet stunning masterpiece. A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly wantmoney, women, fame. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The demons of Romans past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. But Grace doesnt know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious but unidentified graffiti artistan alter ego that could destroy his career and land him in prison. Like Roman, Grace is wrestling with ghosts and secrets of her own. After a disastrous marriage threw her life completely off course, she vowed never to let love steal her dreams again. But as she gets to know the enigmatic man behind the reputation, its as if the jagged pieces of both of their pasts slowly begin to fit together . . . until something so unexpected happens that it changes the course of their relationshipand both their livesforever.
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Nik_reads
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Loved this book. Great writing and an uplifting story. Will definitely be reading more from this author.

Bren912 She‘s one of my favorite authors!! 14mo
Nik_reads @Bren912 which do you recommend for my next read? I have Leota‘s Garden and Mark of the Lion trilogy. 14mo
Bren912 @Nik_reads absolutely Mark of the Lion. 14mo
Nik_reads @Bren912 I will start reading the trilogy, Thank you! 14mo
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NatalieR
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I am unfamiliar with this author, so I was unprepared for the emphasis on religion. I practice spirituality. I was drawn to this book for the subject of art. The artist, Roman Velasco, reminded me of Bansky in the beginning. Roman started out anonymously painting graffiti and worked to avoid capture by the police. Anyway, this quickly becomes a love story between Roman and his personal assistant and life changing events. #MountTBR

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𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚊 𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚗 𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚝𝚑𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚣𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚜. - 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚁𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚌𝚎

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Books0846
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When this came out I was so excited! She is my favorite author so I was not let down when I read this book.

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Biblionut
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Francine Rivers is amazing. I always enjoy her books.

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AmyK1
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Day 3 of #7days7covers #covercrush

@SanjanaGhosh would you like to join in?

SanjanaGhosh I would love to 😊 5y
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wlpark7856
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I have loved Francine Rivers‘ books for years. She is without a doubt, one of the finest Christian Fiction authors out there. However, I was highly disappointed in this book. The plot was incredibly predictable. You kept hoping you weren‘t correct about what was coming next, but you were. It‘s a nice enough story, but does not reach the heights of “And the Shofar Blew.”

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MystiqueeVee15
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He's deep water and i don't know how to swim.. Grace Moore, Master piece by amazing writer Francine Rivers.

#fiction #christianfiction #francineRivers

Eggs Welcome to Litsy 🌺🤗 5y
LitsyWelcomeWagon Welcome to Litsy! Hope these #Litsytips by @RaimeyGallant http://bit.ly/litsytips and #LitsyHowTo videos: goo.gl/UrCpoU are helpful. There‘s so many fun things to do: book exchanges, buddy reads, photo challenges and more! #LitsyWelcomeWagon
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StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego Welcome to Litsy 💖📖💖 5y
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bodacioustchr
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Highly recommend. This is a wonderful story about two people that grew up in damaged family circumstances. The story relates how the two grew and changed. Reading about their growth as Christians was inspiring.

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Tiffanie
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Another enjoyable book by Francine Rivers! Hard to put down. Proves even the lost kids can find their way in this world and share their God given gifts.

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bookish_wookish
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Quick stop yesterday at BN before we headed to the casino! A new book and new Pops! Im so excited about the Pops i got! 🙃

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Nae-nae
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Not as good as River‘s earlier works but never-the-less a page turner!

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emmie_mcm
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Another one down in a weeks time. I cannot get enough ❤️

RaimeyGallant Good to know! And welcome to Litsy! #LitsyWelcomeWagon Some of us put together Litsy tips to help new Littens navigate the site. It's the link in my bio on my page in case you need it. Or if you prefer how-to videos, @chelleo put some together at the link in her bio. @LitsyWelcomeWagon 5y
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GlitterGirl
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Finished this late last night as the first #readingwithfriends book of 2019. And as always, this was beautiful!
😍😍😍
Our past does not define us, what we do with our future is what matters!

Desha ❤️❤️❤️ 5y
wordslinger42 I loved this book so much!! 5y
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RavensCarm
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First book I read in full since getting run over by a car back in November. Grateful for the ways it pointed me to remember that love wins and my Father in Heaven loves me, I needed that!!

Crazeedi And I hope you are on the mend and doing well, so sorry to hear your unfortunate accident! 5y
Crazeedi I have this on my tbr list! 5y
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GlitterGirl
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Our "reading-with-friends" books for the year! The tagged book was already drawn for Jan!

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BitchinBooks
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In the back of the book, “A Note From The Author” explains exactly what I was hoping this book would be. but it missed the mark 😭 I also wish my girl, Francine, would go back to historical fiction. I think part of it is that I just have such high expectations for Francine Rivers that I get disappointed if the book isn‘t life changing lol 🤷🏻‍♀️

rather_be_reading awww love this pic! 5y
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NotDrWatson
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I was definitely entertained, but in a cheap way. No doubt that Francine Rivers is a talented writer, but I thought the characters relied too heavily on stereotypes and were pretty superficial. And the plot was convenient. It‘s just a fantasy, which is fine, but I felt like her talent could have made it more.

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Cailey_Mac
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Has anyone heard of this book, The Masterpiece by Francine Rivers?? It sounds like a contemporary romance, and the cover art is just BEAUTIFUL 😍 #mountTBR

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Books88
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My library haul. My Nana loves her writing and recommended this one to me. It's a 14 day loan so I better get cracking!!!

Laura317 Francine Rivers is wonderful! I hope you enjoy. 6y
RadicalReader @AJBowers most gorgeous book cover ever cannot enjoy a cover more esthetically pleasing 6y
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InnerSavvy
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Wow. Just wow. Loved the depth of the flawed characters. Favorite book read this year.

Laura317 I love Francine Rivers. Have you read 6y
InnerSavvy @Laura317 I have not read that one yet. But hope to. Do you like to read Charles Martin too? Love his flawed characters too. 6y
Laura317 @InnerSavvy I haven‘t yet, but wanted to read the Mountain Between Us - any particular book you‘d recommend I start with? 6y
InnerSavvy The Mountain Between Us was my first book of his a couple if years ago. Loved it. Have not seen the movie. My favorite was Water From My Heart. @Laura317 6y
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Sydsavvy
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Wonder if this book is as good as it is beautiful? #coverart #coverlove #cover

Sydsavvy It‘s really good. So intriguing 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Missing you. Everything okay? ❤️ 6y
Sydsavvy @BarbaraTheBibliophage thank you, yes! I‘m directing a play on top of my day job - so no room for anything extra. We will be producing it in our beautiful old courtroom. I could pinch myself! I‘ll try to post some pictures soon. 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @Sydsavvy Oh my, that sounds busy but super wonderful! ❤️❤️ 6y
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JenlovesJT47
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I normally really love Francine Rivers, but I was sorely disappointed in this book. I disliked the main character, Grace, immensely, and found the story to be way too long and drawn out. I thought Grace was incredibly unlikable and couldn't figure out what Roman saw in her. Most of their actions ring false to me and unrealistic. Such a bummer I didn't like this, I usually love everything she writes. 😔 2.5⭐️

Daisey That's disappointing. I'll probably still give it a chance sometime, but it will keep my expectations in check. 6y
JenlovesJT47 @Daisey what other books of hers have you read? Her Marta's Legacy series is my favorite, I read it once a year or so. 💚 6y
hes7 Aw, bummer. I was excited when I found out about this book months ago, but I keep seeing disappointed reviews. 6y
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JenlovesJT47 @hes7 yeah I was really bummed about this one. 😔 Took me two weeks to finish it. 6y
Daisey My favorite is The Scarlet Thread, but I also really enjoyed Redeeming Love and the Lineage of Grace novellas. I even managed to track down one of her pre Christian writing romances, which was interesting to compare. 6y
JenlovesJT47 @Daisey oh really?? What's the name of that one? Sounds interesting. The Scarlet Thread and Redeeming Love are great, I haven't read The Lineage of Grace yet. So many books so little time! 😱 6y
Daisey It was called Not So Wild A Dream, but it seems to have now disappeared from my shelves. 6y
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hannac
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I enjoyed it but found it a bit long at the end. Francine has a wonderful voice in her writing that displays a personal relationship with God very well in the characters

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MeganAnnabell
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Not my normal type of book but Redeeming Love is one of my all time favorites so I had to try out her new one. This Christian-based novel did not disappoint. I may have cried my eyes out a time or two. (Also, I can‘t figure out how to tag a book in the comments so if anyone could tell me that would be great! Haha)

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JenlovesJT47
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Normally I love Francine Rivers' books. She only has a new one come out once every 2 years or so. I was super excited to get this chunkster from the library. Sad to say I'm very disappointed so far and I've been slogging through it for 2 days already and am only halfway done. 😪I still plan to finish it, just might be taking a break for a few days to read A Man Called Ove before my hold expires. Sigh.

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#Scarlett

Sace Oh... I thought the cat was the masterpiece 😁 I went through a Francine Rivers phase years ago. I loved everything I read. Sorry to hear this one has been disappointing. 6y
JenlovesJT47 @RestlessFickleBookHoarder we'll just go with that, Scarlett is the masterpiece lol. 😻Yeah, normally I really love her books. Her Marta's Legacy series is in my top 5 books of all time. With this one, I just really despise the main character and really want to punch her in the face. And I can already see the ending coming from a mile away. Meaning why is it so long, you could take out 150 pages and not miss anything! 6y
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JenlovesJT47
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1. Florida! ☀️
2. Historical fiction. 🐴
3. Tagged book 👆🏻📚🤓
4. Crab legs! 🦀🤤🦀
5. 5 kitties! 2 that live with my parents (they couldn't bear to part with them when I got married) and 3 at home. Chipper, Scarlett, Nala, Marnie and Maverick! 😻😻😻😻😻

Thank you @Kaye for posting this for the newbies especially!

#LitsyWelcomeWagon
#LitsyQuestions

Erinsuereads I swear my body is like ninety percent butter and crab meat at this point 🤤🤤🤤 6y
GarthRanzz Love your fur babies names! 6y
Kaye You‘re welcome. It was fun. ❤️ 6y
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JenlovesJT47 @ErinSueG lol 😂😂😂 doesn't sound like a bad thing to me! 🤤🦀🤤 6y
JenlovesJT47 @GarthRanzz thanks! 😺 I'm a big movie buff and they're all named after some of my favorite movie characters (except Chipper, who is named after my favorite baseball player Chipper Jones!) ❤️😻 6y
Erinsuereads @JenlovesJT47 we live really close to a casino that does this bottomless crab leg Buffett that is to die for and if you play on the floor for thirty minutes you eat free. It‘s a terrible combination 😂😂 I can make ten dollars in pennies last way longer ham thirty minutes. 6y
JenlovesJT47 @ErinSueG omg that would be so dangerous for me!!! Lucky you!! 6y
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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post 1! Set for a February release. Successful LA artist Roman Velasco has money, women, and fame. But he has demons of his past haunting him. He fends them by being graffiti artist The Bird at night. Only his new personal assistant, Grace, is aware of what he's fighting. They'll find that their pasts come together, and their lives may never be the same again. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

GypsyKat Pretty cover! 6y
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