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Title: Dreamers (Legacies of the Ancient River, 1) by Angela Elwell Hunt ISBN: 1-55661-607-4 Publisher: Bethany House Pub. Date: January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (14 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Well researched, but bloodless
Comment: I like Egyptian history and the biblical story of Joseph, so I eagerly picked up this book. The author obviously did her work well, and gives a strong sense of day to day life in Ancient Egypt. I also liked how Hunt chose to link Joseph's time in Egypt to actual historical pharoahs.Still, the book read a bit like "The Ten Commandments" to me: the basic story from Genesis was there, but there were many added characters and subplots that are transparently fictional. Joseph and Tuya are so saintly and the bad guys so obviously evil that there wasn't much character development or suspense. Also I couldn't help but feel I was being preached to a bit. The book is also very simplistically written: I could certainly recommend it for children or young adults as it is quite "G" rated throughout.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fleshes out the Biblical tale
Comment: I liked this book because it had more meat than the biblical tale. I know that many of the supporting characters are fictional, but everything taken in context adds so much more depth than we usually read. I thought it was interesting how Joseph, Tuya, Sagira, and the pharaohs all had lives that intertwined at various points.
This book has loves stories, murderous plots, and forgiveness. I liked how the interplay of the different religions came into focus with Tutmosis. It was different, reading about a Pharaoh as a human being.
I can't wait to read the next book in the series.
Rating: 3
Summary: I won't repeat earlier criticisms but
Comment: I'lll add that there are historical and Biblical problems. However what does not seem to be mentioned in other reviews is the strange brief introduction to Egyptian family "history" before the story begins. Over and over I asked "where did she get ideas like this" and had to conclude since her "facts" are not cited or documented in any way that she must be reading Herodotus or some modern pseudo-historical work based on misconceived ideas about the benefits of finding matriarchical, matrilineal, and matrifocal cultures. Aside from the questionable family "history" there is also the fact that the story itself does not make reference to the introduction in almost any way until we get to the plot to kill Pharaoh in the last third of the book. The idea of creating female character who could have contact with Joseph and playing up the competition of religions is very well played out in the story. The plot and characters were interesting enough to keep me reading. It is less "G-rated" than many stories based on the Joseph tale or almost any modern fictional retelling of a society that readily embraced slavery -- still not as accurate as it could be but is our society truly ready for such accuracy?
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Title: Brothers (Legacies of the Ancient River, No 2) by Angela Elwell Hunt ISBN: 1556616082 Publisher: Bethany House Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Journey (Legacies of the Ancient River, No 3) by Angela Elwell Hunt ISBN: 1556616090 Publisher: Bethany House Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: The Immortal : by Angela Hunt ISBN: 0849942187 Publisher: Word Publishing Pub. Date: 03 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Canopy : by Angela Hunt ISBN: 0849943450 Publisher: W Publishing Group Pub. Date: 07 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Truth Teller by Angela Elwell Hunt ISBN: 0764221558 Publisher: Bethany House Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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