Thursday, May 1, 2014

Bethany House Blog Tour: For Such a Time


Author: Kate Breslin

Genre: Life, historical fiction, adventure

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 9

Type: Historical fiction

Number of pages: 430

Time period: 1940s, World War II

Publisher and price: Bethany House, $14.99

My overall opinion: Wow. This book blew me away. It is set perfectly in World War II, excellently accurate and very realistic. I should know, I’ve read a lot of World War II books, both fiction and non-fiction. But this book isn’t just a World War II story. It’s also the Biblical story of Esther, brought forward and retold in a Biblically accurate way in the newer time period. The amount of work that Kate clearly put into this is stunning. She pays an amazing amount of attention to the little details. I also love how she uses a lot of adjectives, and even a few words that made me pull up my dictionary app – hey, gotta love learning new words to throw at people! ;) I was so wow-ed by how the author brought the Biblical story to life (realistically) in World War II. She has great skill. And I really loved the main characters, Aric and Hadassah/Stella. This is a book that I will keep and re-read! I’m really excited to see more books by this author.

**Bethany House sent me a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. I wasn’t required to review it positively, and all opinions etc are my own. I wasn’t paid for this review.**

3 comments:

Delvalina said...

All your book that you have reviewed are awesome. I don't have idea to find one here, I wish I could find one in the book stores.

:)
Thanks for sharing.
Blessing to you friend!

Hamlette (Rachel) said...

Whoa! Esther is one of my favorite people from the Bible. I will definitely seek this out. You know how much I love the WWII era!

Charity U said...

Thanks, Delvalina!

Hamlette, as you can see, I highly recommend this one! Pretty awesome. :)