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Category: Book
Author: Liz Curtis Higgs
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Studio: Brilliance Audio
Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio
Label: Brilliance Audio
Format: Abridged, Bargain Price
Language: English (Published)
Media: Audio Cassette
Number Of Items: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 1400150620
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781400150625
ASIN: B000VYX2H8
Publication Date: March 18, 2003
Release Date: March 18, 2003
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Product Description
In the autumn of 1788, amid the moors and glens of the Scottish Lowlands, two brothers fight to claim one father?s blessing, two sisters long to claim one man?s heart.
Leana slipped beneath the woolen covers, leaving one taper burning high on the dresser where it would not disturb her slumber. Clouds had moved in and blotted out the moon, for the window was dark, and her whole room, except for the tiny flame, remained pitch black. "As dark as a Yule midnight," Neda would say.
Darkness was nothing to fear. Far greater fears gnawed on Leana?s soul. A life without love, without a husband, without children. For her it was no life at all. But what if that was the life the Almighty had chosen for her? If it pleased him, could she bear it?
"Wise, heart wrenching, and ultimately triumphant. I couldn?t put it down." - Francine Rivers, author of Redeeming Love
"A moving account of love, deception, redemption, and hope. I was hooked from the first page."
- Tracie Peterson, author of Treasures of the North
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| Customer Reviews: Read 38 more reviews...
 Gets better the more you read. December 6, 2008
This book is based on the Biblical story of Jacob and Esau. The first several chapters were a slow read, but as I continued, my interest grew to the point that I couldn't put it down. Word for word, line by line, page by page, chapter by chapter, book by book until all three in the series were read. If you find yourself struggling to get through the beginning, keep reading, it's well worth it. I loved them all!
 Fantastic July 14, 2008
This is a wonderful book that is a bit slow to start but once it does...
WONDERFUL!! June 27, 2008
This is a great book! I started reading and I couldn't put it down. Liz Curtis Higgs is a wonderful author. I really felt like I knew the characters by the time I finished.
Wonderful on its own! June 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is marvellous for its own sake. I believe that Liz Curtis Higgs should have stopped here and not written the other books, though I loved Whence Came a Prince and Grace in Thine Eyes. The story of Jacob and Laban's daughters is from a polygamous culture and difficult to apply to a later time when polygamy is not practiced, not legally anyway. I have read all of this series for the most part and think that Leana suffered undeservedly in Fair is the Rose, my least favorite book of the series, but the Christian path is filled with suffering.
This book made me ask questions about the characters' biblical couterparts, mostly Rachel and Leah. Rose's initial reluctance in "Thorn"
toward marriage, her assertion that she is too young, caused me to wonder what Rachel's initial feelings for her cousin were. Yes, I know Jacob kissed her at the well, and the Bible clearly states "Jacob loved Rachel,"
but it is never clearly states that Rachel loved Jacob; people assume that. Leah's exact feelings are never revealed either though in her book "Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible," Higgs mentions that Laban "TOOK his elder daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob," indicating that there was some reluctance on her part. Later in Genesis she is desperate to win his love, but is she simply trying to make the best of things? This vagueness in Scripture makes one thing clear; women's feelings were not considered so important in Biblical times! Thank goodness that Higgs is kinder to her women. I just can't help wishing she had ended it here.
Wonderful! January 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this series. In fact, I've bought multiple copies of it to give to friends. I agree with most of the other reviews here about the basic plot and feeling of the story, so I won't go into that, but I do want to give a couple "warnings" about the series.
Warning #1--This first book starts out kinda slow. It's setting the stage and giving a background of the culture and I found it very hard to get past the first half or so of the book. Once I really got into it, though, I loved it and flew through the other books! (I also realized while I was reading the last book that in the back of the books there's a dictionary of sorts to help with the words they use if you can't understand their meaning).
Warning #2--This is not a "fluffy" romance. It's intense and I wouldn't recommend it for a reader who is not mature (I'd say college age and up). I read it about a year after I got married (in my early 20s) and thought it was perfect.
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