Book Review: Esther Royal Beauty
For the past few months, my daughters and my mom have all been studying the book of Esther in their Sunday school classes. Somehow my husband and I ended up in a class with a different lesson plan, but I've loved seeing my girls studying with my mom from a book that I love. Esther is inspiring to me. She isn't a perfect example for us to live up to, rather a girl faced with choices that ultimately lead to saved lives. Isn't that, in fact, just what we should be striving for after all? The question I ask myself from that story is what if I was put here for such a time as this.
Angela Hunt's newest release: Esther: Royal Beauty (Dangerous Beauty Series #1)
is the first book in her Dangerous Beauty series. (Bathsheba and Delilah are planned next.) Hunt is an award winning author. This book looks at Esther in a different way than I have read about her before. It is a fiction book based on facts. The story is shared from a first person point of view, first as a young girl dreaming of being a queen, then as the queen who plays such an important role in saving so many Jewish lives. It isn't a Bible study, but a novel, and as such is a different approach to presenting truths from God's Word.
My daughter started reading it this week and shared these thoughts:
"I like the story line. I definitely do not think this book should be read as if it were based on the Bible, though. Of all Esther's characteristics described in the story, I don't remember most, if any, being described in the true story. But it is kind of neat to imagine what someone could have been thinking. If I were writing this novel, from reading the first few pages, it would seem like a point about our spiritual beauty being more important, rather than physical beauty, should be made, or maybe the heroine of the story would realize that that is more important."
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My daughter started reading it this week and shared these thoughts:
"I like the story line. I definitely do not think this book should be read as if it were based on the Bible, though. Of all Esther's characteristics described in the story, I don't remember most, if any, being described in the true story. But it is kind of neat to imagine what someone could have been thinking. If I were writing this novel, from reading the first few pages, it would seem like a point about our spiritual beauty being more important, rather than physical beauty, should be made, or maybe the heroine of the story would realize that that is more important."
Disclosure: The book shared above was provided for this review. Family Christian will provide certificate to winner. Affiliate links are included in this post. This is disclosed as per FTC guidelines.
Click below to enter a giveaway for a copy of this book, provided by Family Christian:
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