Well, there was one character that was easy to hate, but otherwise, I loved them all. The characters were really well developed and even when they made bad choices or the storyline took an unexpected turn, it was still hard to hate them. The plot took so many twists and turns that even 1600ish pages went quickly. The story in the Bible only gives us a few short paragraphs where Liz Curtis Higgs unfolds the story over 3 books at about 1600 pages, so she’s got plenty of room for creative liberty, while still maintaining Biblical themes of love, forgiveness, and truth. It’s set in 1800ish in the Scottish Lowlands and it is beautifully written. Whence Came a Prince starts exactly where the 2nd book leaves off with no review of what’s happened so far. The whole Lowlands of Scotland series is a retelling of the Biblical story of Jacob, Rachel, & Leah. I breezed through the first two books ( Thorn in My Heart is the first, Fair is the Rose is the second) rather quickly and got distracted by my TRB list for several months (said no bookish person ever…) before returning to Whence Came a Prince for the culmination to a riveting story. My sister in law had lent me all three books last summer. This is the 3rd book in the Lowlands of Scotland series.
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