Title: Not faithful at all
Product review: This book was a quick read, but it was deeply flawed. To begin with, in place of depth of information about the time period, we get repetition, such as constantly describing the same beauty regimen. Esther isn't much of a character; she comes across as a bored whiner. Mordechai is basically slandered by Kohn's writing that he's discarded his faith and only rediscovers it at the end. The Book of Esther is short but there are many explanatory stories that flesh it out pretty well. Kohn seems to have either not heard of them or ignored them so anyone who knows the Book of Esther and the other stories will find this book very unfaithful because only the bare bones of the plot have been kept. Finally, the Gilded Cage is billed as a feminist story, yet it is anything but. One of the subtexts in the Book of Esther is that men and women need to respect each other, while in the Gilded Chamber this is completely missing.
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