Angela A. (kidibelle) reviewed on 2/15/2012 + 39 more book reviews

I have OCD which means if I start a book, I feel compelled to finish it.... thirty pages into this and I returned it to the library unfinished. The Biblical inaccuracies are inexcusable, especially when the author notes at the end of the book that she tried to remain as biblically accurate as possible. But then the perverse sexual explicitness portrayed so early on.... Jacob masturbating, Laban and the shepherds sexually abusing the sheep..... She treated these people as if they had no sense of self worth or self control, as is they were crude, crass, baseist and animalistic. Granted the Bible is filled with real people who did genuinely sinful and disgusting things but that was not what I was expecting to read when I popped open this book!
According to other reviewers, Diament wrote that Joseph and Potipher's wife were involved sexually... the Bible is VERY clear that they were NOT and as a believer that the Bible is the inspired word of God and every word is real and true... I was very disappointed with the liberties that the author took. Some reviewers rave about the beauty of womanhood that this book portrays but I couldn't get past the perverse sexual explicitness so early into the story and so I never got that far.
If you're wanting a clean and respectful biblically accurate fictional story about the Founding Family.... try something else. The Christian market has come a long way in the last decade since this book was published and has quite a few nice stories to offer!

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