Helpful Score: 2
I came very close to not requesting this book due to the way the jacket reads. I'm spiritual, not religious and I thought it would be a biblical retelling and therefor unexciting. I can not express how happy I am that this was not the case!
This book's timeline falls in between the era of Goddess worship and the beginnings of Christianity, exploring the traditions of both. It's an amazing story of not just one woman's life but of the women who made her the person she became. Romance, jealousy, a mother's unconditional love, hatred, slavery, murder, redemption. It's all here wrapped in enchanted script. The beginning may be a little slow but never boring and once the wedding begins (somewhere around the third chapter)the book sky rockets, never looking back.
This book kept me up late into the night and made its way into my daily life taking up lunch times and sneaking into the gym, made me burn dinner, and caused my phone's voice mail to overload. I give it 5 stars!
This book's timeline falls in between the era of Goddess worship and the beginnings of Christianity, exploring the traditions of both. It's an amazing story of not just one woman's life but of the women who made her the person she became. Romance, jealousy, a mother's unconditional love, hatred, slavery, murder, redemption. It's all here wrapped in enchanted script. The beginning may be a little slow but never boring and once the wedding begins (somewhere around the third chapter)the book sky rockets, never looking back.
This book kept me up late into the night and made its way into my daily life taking up lunch times and sneaking into the gym, made me burn dinner, and caused my phone's voice mail to overload. I give it 5 stars!
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