Jerusalem’s Queen is the latest installment of Angela Hunt’s “The Silent Years” series, and what I believe is the series’ crowning glory.
From the back cover,
Born in the small village of Modein, a town made famous by the warrior Maccabees, Salome Alexandra knows better than to harbor grand dreams for her future. She pales in comparison to her beautiful older sister, and though she learns to read at an early age, girls are not valued for their intellectual ability. But when her father and sister are killed, John Hyrcanus, a distant relative, invites Salome and her mother to live with his family in Jerusalem, where her thirst for knowledge is noticed and indulged. When her guardian betroths her to a pagan prince, she questions HaShem’s plan. When Hyrcanus finally marries her to a boy half her age, she questions her guardian’s sanity. But though Salome spends much of her life as a pawn ordered about by powerful men, she learns that a woman committed to HaShem can change the world.
Maybe I’m just the person who almost always likes the sequels and the remakes better than the originals, and maybe that’s an objectionable opinion, but you can’t deny that progress comes with the passage of time. I have enjoyed this book’s predecessors Egypt’s Sister and Judah’s Wife, but I must say this third book is by far my favorite.
I was able to listen to the audiobook version of this through Audible, and it was SO compelling. I felt just as unsure as Salome Alexandra did in the story with each turn of the page and closing of the chapters. This book definitely kept me guessing what was going to happen next, and, like all of the other books in the series, has motivated me to dig deeper into my own personal Bible study to find where the fiction meets fact.
I am eagerly awaiting the next book in the series.
Like. Literally.
I can NOT wait for more!!!
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King’s Shadow by Angela Hunt, Book #4 in the Silent Years series, releases August 6, 2019.
Until next time,
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