Reign by Ginger Garrett

Beyond the Drama,
Her Heart Was Real




From the moment her
marriage to prince Ahab thrusts her into the intrigues of palace life,
Jezebel’s exotic beauty opens doors and her will breaks down walls. Torn from
her homeland and wed to power in a strange country, Jezebel vows to create a
legacy and power all her own. Some might call her a manipulative schemer, bent
on having her way. But they don’t know the whole story, and she was much, much
worse.




As she moves through
the halls of power, her heart struggles between devotion to the gods she
worships, the prince who loves her, and her thirst for revenge. She sparks a
battle between her strangely powerless gods and the God of palace administrator
Obadiah—a God who confronts her with surprising might. She will fight, though
victory may cost her everything.




Reign is the fictionalized biography of the notorious Jezebel
of the Bible. The story opens with Jezebel’s hatred of her twin sister and
shoving her to her death in a sacrifice.




The story unfolds through the point of view of Jezebel, her
husband Prince Ahab, and Obadiah, a palace administrator. What makes this novel
unique is the fact that the main heroine is abhorrent to our modern day
sensibilities. As queen, she promotes murder and sacrifice, killing infants, rampant
prostitution, the drinking of blood, worship of numerous gods, and pure evil. You
will not like her, a most unusual predicament for most readers.




Yet the story, although slow in places, was compelling and
shocking enough to hold my interest. I love a good villain - the more vile, the better. Well written and woven with intriguing
historical details, this novel was a very unusual, but interesting read, one that is still haunting me.





 




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