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sarahetc's Reviews (1.17k)
This is how you write Christian fiction. You take a real historical event (Titus's destruction of Jerusalem) and from it build bold, believable characters. You give them real problems (slavery, forced marriage, Rome in general) and weave their stories slowly but surely together. True, this isn't the best written, most lyrical or even notably subtle book ever. But it's certainly not the clod-hopping, praise-and-worship quoting, just-just-just didacticism that passes for most Christian literature. Hadassah is imperfect in her Christianity. Julia is not wholly evil in her pagan hedonism. And while they could be better written, I enjoyed the story no less for its straightforward ease of storytelling. I'll pursue the sequel with all haste and probably everything else Francine Rivers has written, too.