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essentiallynovel's review
5.0
This book is so unique and beautiful, and I loved it! It's part historical biography, part travel memoir, part Christian nonfiction... it doesn't fit in just one genre. The musical group All Sons & Daughters decided to take a trip, alongside some friends and a pastor, that covered the British Isles and Europe to visit towns and sites that poets and saints who contributed to the Great Commission were from. From Oxford to Assisi to Rome, I liked that as the team traveled to these towns the author shares a few details from an experience they had there to a brief overview of that location's poet or saint's story, as well as took some time to point out things we can learn from their life and questions for our faith to reflect on. This book isn't meant to be anything truly in-depth, whether with these individual's histories or even the biblical truths, but it was fun to go on the journey with the AS&D's team as they engaged firsthand with the legacy these poets and saints left behind.
a_payne's review
5.0
This book was exactly what I needed right now. What an interesting outlook on poets and saints. And to think we are all vital. We are all poets and saints that God will use. We all have a song to sing, a story to tell.
maynovalis's review
3.0
I wish I could give this 3.5 or even 3.75 stars. It was a good read and had many nuggets that make it worth reading for sure. A lot of the book was about the author's personal travel experience in Europe, and while that was anecdotal, it made the book more like a blog in some ways.I think I expected it to be more tied to the songs that inspired All Sons & Daughters' album of the same name. All in all, a good read.
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