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Aug 11, 2024 Tien rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, read-on-kobo

This is the story of Dinah, Jacob's only daughter who was barely mentioned in the bible. However, this author has weaved her imagination over who she was and what her life was like as a woman in that time of ancient history. Of course, she had to keep the main (well-known) part of the story.

For the (approximately) first 100 pages of the book was about Jacob and his wives. This is not my favourite bible story. If you know me, you would know that I very much dislike love triangles. And I hate sibl ...more

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Mar 15, 2008 Avigail rated it really liked it

Diamant has created a wonderful story about the women of biblical times, our fore-mothers Rebecca, Sarah, Rachel, and Leah, from Dinah's point of view. Although I was eager to read this book, I didn't expect it to have such an impact on me, nor did I expect to love it as much as I did. Highly recommended. It is especially gratifying to find a sympathetic, detailed, and believable account of an Old Testament woman's life set in this era and part of the world. The book was a pleasure for even this ...more

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Nov 03, 2008 Book Concierge rated it it was amazing

Shelves: book-club, family, historical-fiction, favorite, library, concierge, strong-women, women-writers, culture

5***** and a ❤

What a wonderfully told story! From a relatively small reference in the Bible, Diamant weaves a historical novel that completely captivates. Dinah, sister of Joseph, daughter of Jacob and Leah, tells her tale. The story is brought to life with vivid descriptions of the hardships and pleasures of everyday life, the sorrow and despair following tragedy, the anger and fury of one betrayed, the passion and sweetness of new love, the comfort of a mother's love for her child, the endurin ...more

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Oct 05, 2010 Kim DeCina rated it it was ok

Shelves: historical-fiction, spiritual, mediocre

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Full disclosure: While I plan to finish this book, I'm not done with it yet; I've just finished the five minutes that are actually based on the original story, the murder of Dinah's husband. I also am a Wiccan who has barely read any of the Bible, so my interest in this as a book is pretty much entirely literary. From the other reviews I'm seeing here, I'm not missing all that much.

I've had to keep myself from dropping this book a good five or six times, since I'm reading it for a group's readin ...more

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Mar 24, 2009 Sue rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: chick-lit, re-telling

Although this book was fairly well-written and there were some lovely literary passages, I didn't really like it. Except for Dinah's two husbands, the men in the book were portrayed as selfish, crude, ignorant pigs with no real purpose in life except to provide good sex and children. And there's a lot of sex. I also found the female characters' reliance on idolatry and fertility rites and goddesses at odds with the family religion of one God, and strange that the men and women seemed to have the ...more

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