Book Review - Harvest Of Rubies by Tessa Afshar

Genre:
Biblical/Historical

Harvest Of Rubies
Harvest Of Rubies book 1
by Tessa Afshar

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-From the back cover-

Remarkable talent
Threatens to cloud a life

The prophet Nehemiah's cousin has been catapulted into the center of the Persian court – working long hours, rubbing elbows with royalty, and becoming the queen's favorite scribe.

Not bad for a woman living in a man's world. But a devastating past has left Sarah believing that God doesn't love her and her achievements are the measure of her worth – a measure sh can never quite live up to.

Darius Pasargadae is accustomed to having his way. A wealthy and admired aristocrat, the las thing he expects is an arranged marriage to the queen's scribe, an intelligent woman who scorns him.

Can two such different people help one another overcome the idols that bind them?

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For the first time in my 20+ years of reading a book did what I thought was the impossible. I have gone through the gamut of emotions with the characters in literally hundreds of novels. Some of them tugged at the heartstrings and some were sad, but until Harvest Of Rubies not one book had brought me to tears. In those pages Nehemiah tells Sarah that her worth isn't defined by her abilities and that she has been hiding behind the gifts God gave her. Those words struck like one of Darius's arrows. I don't have a Nehemiah to tell me the truth and I don't yet have the hope of a Darius. But what I do have is that same God using the pages of a novel, penned by a woman who's life has been far removed from mine, to tell me that it is His opinion alone that matters and that His view of me is much different than how others, and even I, see myself.

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This Book earned a 5 Bark rating.

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Tessa Afshar

Author's Website

Honestly, it is how IT made me feel and even think, that makes Harvest Of Rubies such a good book in my opinion. Yes, the book is well-written; the research and rich detail that Tessa Afshar put into it are wonderful. But is the way she caught my attention and made me feel as if Nehemiah and the others were speaking directly to me, not preaching at me, but telling the honest-to-goodness truth. 

I started reading the book and thanks to the internet being down I had few distractions, I actually finished it over the course of the afternoon. Even now after I have finished it I still find my mind going back to what I read. A truly good book is one that long after you might forget the character's names you still remember what it contained.

I am usually fairly skeptical of Biblical fiction, questioning how accurate to the Bible and history the book is, but Tessa Afshar has won me over as a new fan with Harvest Of Rubies. 

Tell Tale Book Reviews gives Harvest Of Rubies by Tessa Afshar an unreserved 5 Bark rating.

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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: River North (May 1, 2012)
ISBN-10: 0802405584
ISBN-13: 978-0802405586

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