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Title: Promising but Blasphemous
Review: Despite being well written and having a very interesting premise, this book was a disappointment overall. Considering how the bible, especially in Genesis, covers hundreds of years within a handful of pages - there is a lot of room for exploration, and even some creative license with such fiction. However, to take figures beloved by the Jewish and Christian communities, and to add things contrary to their known characteristics, is apt to upset some as it did me. Jacob was portrayed as an idolatrous and cowardly man. Sure, he wasn't perfect in real life, but I do wish the author had stayed a bit more true to the Jacob of the Hebrew Scriptures. There was plenty else she could've, and in some cases, did do - to be interesting.
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