Author: Ginger
Garrett
Genre: Romance,
life
Series: Lost Loves
of the Bible
Number in
series: 2nd
My rating
on a 1-10 scale: 8.5
Type: Historical
fiction
Number of
pages: 288
Time
period: Bible times
Publisher
and price: David C. Cook, $14.99
My overall
opinion: This is a very interesting perspective on Queen Esther’s story
from her point of view. I quite enjoyed it, and am really glad I had the chance
to read it. It was a good book – not perfect accuracy to the Bible, but
passable and close enough that I didn’t hate it. It ended up being a fairly
quick though enjoyable read for me, and I’ll read it again.
**Thanks to David C. Cook for sending me this book. I wasn’t
required (or even requested) to read or review it in any manner. However, all
thoughts and opinions are my own.**
Author: Ginger
Garrett
Genre: Life,
Bible times
Series: Lost Loves
of the Bible
Number in
series: 3rd
My rating
on a 1-10 scale: 8.5 (high)
Type: Fiction
Number of
pages: 304
Time
period: Bible time (around 925 B.C.)
Publisher
and price: David C. Cook, $14.99
My overall
opinion: I’m so happy to be telling y’all…I enjoyed this one more than Desired! I read them basically right in
a row, so they’re both fresh in my mind. Now this? Is the story…of Jezebel. Let
me guess…you’ve never read a story about Jezebel. Me either, until this one! It’s
amazing – you fully understand, as you read, just how wicked Jezebel is/was –
you abhor her, practically hate her for what she’d doing. Yet at the same time,
you understand her, and you pity her. She’s such a sad person…your heart goes
out to her. Who knew that one could feel such loathing and compassion for one
character at the same time! I don’t think I’ve experienced that before.
It was also very interesting to get to know the prophet Elijah.
There are also part of the story told from Ahab and Obadiah’s view-points (not
in first person, thankfully). While Obadiah isn’t in the Biblical story itself,
I believe that the Obadiah in this book is supposed to be the one who has a Bible
book named after him. There were one or two times when the book wasn’t quite
accurate to some of the Biblical details – always disappointing. Overall
though, it did a good job of representing the truth. There are a few things
(though not as many as in Desired)
that make me say only for older readers.
All in all? It was good, and I’m keeping this book! Oh, and the
reason it got a (high)? There were some a.m.a.z.i.n.g.l.y. great descriptive
passages in here – great word pictures. Really enjoyed that.
**The Book Club Network Inc. and the publisher sent me this book for
my honest review. I have done my best to honestly portray my thoughts
concerning this book. I wasn’t reimbursed for this review, or required to post
positively.**
Author: Ginger
Garrett
Genre: Life,
romance
Series: Lost Loves
of the Bible
Number in
series: 2nd
My rating
on a 1-10 scale: 8
Type: Historical
fiction
Number of
pages: 349
Time
period: Bible times
Publisher
and price: David C. Cook, $14.99
My overall
opinion: Being a girl with a big enjoyment of Biblical fiction, I knew I
wanted to give this book (and this author) a try as soon as I heard of it. It
took a while, but then I got signed up to review Reign by the same author – and David C. Cook sent me all three of
her books. I started with this one. You know, there aren’t just a whole lot of
books about Samson and Delilah…so this one was definitely a first for me! It’s
got a lot of fiction, but the Bible parts were well done. By fiction, I mean
the author made up a lot of backstory and added in a lot of details – more than
many Biblical fiction books I’ve read. However, most of those were about
characters where we know more about their lives. Some of the material here was
a little more descriptive about matters appropriate for more mature readers than most books like this that
I’ve read – nothing really bad, but I’d still only recommend for 17+. The
switching view points did a good job conveying the thoughts of each individual woman,
but they also annoyed me a lot sometimes…it was a lot of switching, and not
always completely smooth. At the end of the day? It was a good book, very
interesting, well-written, and I enjoyed it.
**The publisher sent me this book as a complimentary copy. I wasn’t
required to review it, wasn’t reimbursed for doing so, and wasn’t obligated to
review it positively.**
