Helpful Score: 3
I loved this book! Reading novels is new for me in recent years but since I have discovered Biblical Fiction.........I can't get enough! They seem to bring the Bible alive for me and I use my Bible to reference the facts in the novel. It has made the Bible new again.
I love the character of Leah as she is not perfect as most women in most novels are presented. She has many flaws and one of them being jealousy and envy. There is a lot of that in the Bible. She is not beautiful and agrees to trick Jacob into marrying her, instead of his true love and her sister, Rachel. Though her father does trick Jacob again into working seven more years in exchange for marrying Rachel a week later after marrying Leah. I felt sorry for her through out the book, but I know that was how things were done in Bible times. Sharing my husband with a sister would be hard to do! After Rachel dies though, Leah does fill the roll of his wife and he seems to love her more like a wife then.
I love the character of Leah as she is not perfect as most women in most novels are presented. She has many flaws and one of them being jealousy and envy. There is a lot of that in the Bible. She is not beautiful and agrees to trick Jacob into marrying her, instead of his true love and her sister, Rachel. Though her father does trick Jacob again into working seven more years in exchange for marrying Rachel a week later after marrying Leah. I felt sorry for her through out the book, but I know that was how things were done in Bible times. Sharing my husband with a sister would be hard to do! After Rachel dies though, Leah does fill the roll of his wife and he seems to love her more like a wife then.
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