Against the backdrop of opulent palace life, raging war, and desert escapes, Michal deals with love, loss, and personal transformation as one of the wives of David.
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Against the backdrop of opulent palace life, raging war, and desert escapes, Michal deals with love, loss, and personal transformation as one of the wives of David.
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This is the first in the Wives of King David series. I read book two and three first. I was hesitant to read this one because I never found this character to be endearing, like Abigail or controversial, like Bathsheba. But I should have known this author could take a character like Michal and make you understand her motivation and feelings.
Mrs. Smith takes familiar stories like David and Goliath, Mephibosheth, and Saul's pursuit of David and fleshes them out so you feel like you are there with them. I never considered all her losses before or had any sympathetic feelings for Michal. But Mrs. Smith paints her as a woman in a dysfunctional family, longing for love, torn from the man she loves, given to another, and then returned to David after eighteen years, to a marriage that now included six other wives. Add to that the death of her father and brothers in one day, then the murder of seven relatives to right a wrong done by her father, and her bitter spirit makes sense. I like that Mrs. Smith showed Michal finding peace and forgiveness in the end. Beautiful. It made me cry.
HopenGrace
Apr 12, 2010
History Brought to Life
Jill Eileen Smith had me transported to the time of King Saul and David. The book starts out in Gibeah, 1023 BC, with a young David rising up for the challenge and battle with Goliath. The author says this about David, ?without a doubt, David knew the Most High had called him to this moment, and nothing anyone could do or say would shake his confidence in the Almighty.?
Even after Saul watches David slay Goliath and promises David his daughter Michal in marriage, he makes David pay a very high dowry for her, in hopes he would die before the price could be paid. Through the pages of this story and in the bible God used David to turn the people?s focus back to the Lord. It was amazing to read all that David went through in chronological order.
When David has to flee for his life he is unable to take Michael with him, it?s too dangerous. I enjoyed the way Jill Eileen Smith told of the times, culture and events with so much emotion and insight. This author pens an up-close and personal look at David through Michal?s eyes. Starting when she first falls in love with him and all the drama that plays out before and after David becomes King.
Jill says in the author notes that this book was twenty years in the making. Originally she wrote this book about King David. Later on a publisher suggests she writes it from the point of view of Michal. I?m so glad she did write it through Michel?s eyes, it made the book more intimate. Jill Eileen Smith drew me into the story quickly and captured my imagination from the very beginning with the story of David and Goliath?a story I?m familiar with yet I found myself captivated by this tale and her passionate storytelling
There were events in this book that made me go back to scripture to see if what she wrote was true or she just added it to make the story work. I learned several surprising things about Michal and David that I hadn?t known before. I love when that happens because then the facts stay with me. This is the first book in the Wives of David series. I cant? wait to read the next booking this series called Abigail.
Nora St.Laurent
ACFW Book Club Coordinator
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