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Love Without Limits Review



Author Nick Vujicic wears many hats.   Born without arms or legs, he has overcome many obstacles and now serves as a motivational speaker and evangelist.  He also shares Christ worldwide through his position as the director of a non-profit organization called Life Without Limbs.

Love Without Limits is cowritten with his wife Kanae for the purpose of "inspiring those in search of love and those hoping to sustain loving relationships."  It is a book that includes pieces of their stories, but it reads more as a sort of how-to on what one should look for in a spouse.

 I commend their efforts and am thankful for the ministry and the encouragement I am certain they have been to many,  and this review is in no way meant to be critical of the authors themselves, but I am not a big fan of this book.  Here are my main reasons for drawing this conclusion.

1.  They seem to operate on the premise that if God puts marriage on your heart then you will get married.  It's worded a little differently than that - he says on page 25, "If God puts something on your heart, He will never shortchange you."  Then a few lines down, "I can't promise you will find that one person who is meant for you,  but God can...You can doubt me,  but don't doubt Him.  Just look at the person God eventually brought into my heart!"  I think this is faulty theology, even though it sounds good. What about those who desire marriage but never get married?  Or children,  but never conceive?  Or that dream job or house or a life to be spared?  Does this mean they're being shortchanged?  I know this isn't the message he is intending to send,  but it's there implicitly.

2.  They've been married for 3 years and some change.  It's one thing to share advice with some newlywed friends, but to write a book on the subject?  This doesn't mean they don't offer any valuable advice or have anything worthwhile to share (they do!),  but I value longevity in a marriage to show how "true love will triumph."

3.  I was expecting this book to be more vulnerable, but I found Nick and Kanae to be fairly vague in their struggles with insecurities and they don't address how they have worked through those.  (Or how they continue to do so practically).

4.  The book seems a bit scattered and unorganized.  In one chapter Kanae describes her birth story, which while fascinating to me as a mom, has nothing to do with the purposes of this book. She does address the difficulties and challenges associated with being a new parent and the postpartum experience, but the birth story itself gives a good illustration of the unnecessary details included throughout.

5.  The writing style was really just not very engaging.

The story is interesting, because I'm a sucker for marriage/proposal/baby related things, and because it points to Christ, but I don't think I would recommend this book based on the above reasons.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from bloggingforbooks.org in exchange for writing this honest review.

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