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The story line was random, didn't make sense, and had too many holes and connections that didn't fit for me. A couple characters were interesting but the majority just left questions. I finished the book because I am a fast reader and was hoping it would turn and get better; but it just got worse for me. There were moments where I was saying, "OK, I want to know where this goes" but most moments were just wishing I understood why the author would go that direction.
This is definitely not what most should see as "Biblical fiction" . There is more reference, connection, and respect of culture and history from other sources than the Biblical perspective and characters. I normally love Biblical fiction and historical fiction, seeing how the history of the Bible is connected to what is happening in those surroundings and time frames. I just could not connect or make sense of it. I was looking forward to a story about an otherwise forgotten character but ended just forgetting the story (or wishing I could).


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Angels at the Gate TK Thorne Books Reviews

This is the second book that I've read by this wonderful author and I am hoping that she continues to do more. The biblical themes are interesting because I have long-time deep knowledge of the Bible. I like the way she takes well-known characters, fleshes them out with exquisitely careful great detail into real people and then takes liberties with the story line. It is courageous on her part and it appears to have worked extremely well in the case of the two books that I have read. It would be so nice for her to another book to create a biblical trilogy. Ms. Thorne breathes life into her characters, resulting in page turning action to such an extent as to make it difficult to put her books down. Yet, the tales are told in such an interesting and entertaining manner that one desires to extend the reading enjoyment for as long as possible. I am so looking forward to another exciting Bible story. I commend this read to all with no reservations of any kind. It is time very well spent.
Adira—daughter of Zakiti, a caravan chief relative of Abram—is fifteen years old and all her life she has posed as a boy in front of her people based on a promise her father made to Adira’s dying mother. Already on the brink of womanhood, her way of life seems in jeopardy because Sarai, Abram’s wife, who knows their secret, wants to arrange a suitable marriage for Adira with Zakiti’s consent.

Meanwhile, three giant strangers have joined the caravan. It is rumored they are El’s angels who bring tidings for Abram and Sarai. Adira falls in love with one of the strangers, but when desert people kill her father and kidnap her beloved, she will leave the safety she knows to avenge her father and rescue El’s angel. In her quest, she will cross the desert and will arrive at the very gates of Babylon. Little does she know that through twists of fate she will end up becoming Lot’s wife and the famous pillar of salt on her escape from the burning city of Sodom.

The trouble I initially had with Angels at the Gate seemed to stem from a marketing mistake, in my opinion. It was billed as "if you liked The Red Tent you will like Angels at the Gate". You know how in families there are two beautiful siblings but one seems to garner all the attention while the other suffers in comparison? It is that way with The Red Tent and Angels at the Gate. I loved The Red Tent; I discovered with it the profound mystery of femininity, something most women take for granted. That was the greatest accomplishment of Anita Diamant.

Angels at the Gate is absorbing, a page-turner. It reads like an ancient text and benefits from a rich and complex biblical tableau, but the similarities with The Red Tent end there. Angels at the Gate is its own story. It starts with the story of Adira passing off as a young boy traveling with her father's caravan through the edge of the known ancient world, and ends up becoming a tale of tenacity and unspeakable tragedy. The fact that things didn't get necessarily better after she got married anchors the story in a reality that I can easily understand.

The Red Tent can be classified as historical fiction or alternative history, but Angels at the Gate is more of a fictional novel developed over a rich historical setting that works very well.

What I learned the cult of El didn't turn monotheistic from the beginning. Throughout the ancient world the goddess was venerated in several forms, under different names, such as Asherah, consort of the god Baal, as known in Canaan, and Ishtar, as she was known in Babylonia.

What bothered me to no end the depiction of Mika-el the archangel as a healer and of Raph-el as a warrior when it is the opposite; once I learned to ignore that, I could enjoy my reading experience.

In summary, Angels at the Gate deserves the status of bestseller as The Red Tent. It is a minor sibling but it should be recognized on its own merits.

DISCLAIMER I received from the marketing team a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Review by Sharon Cook, 9-6-18
Other than issues of barrenness and servitude, women are rarely described in the Bible,
certainly not as multi-dimensional characters with thoughts of their own and curiosity. But, surely, we know they were there with feminine wisdom and personality. It is gratifying to have these women of the Bible illuminated in TK Thorne’s stories, Noah’s Wife and Angels at the Gate. Though the stories are fictionalized, surely some of the true character and feminine impact come thru. We know this because of the considerable research Ms. Thorne puts into her novels.
Mrs. Thorne leads the reader into the multidimensional world of Bible times with details of people who seem life-like and displaying the culture and ways of the times. This includes descriptions of the limited choices, hardships and brutality shown to women in these times. Both books are fast-moving. The heroines, Na’amah (Noah’s Wife) and Adira (Angels at the Gate) capture the reader quickly with their curiosity and adventuresome-ness, unlikely traits of most women described in these ancient Biblical times. They spark the possibility or how the evolution of a more vibrant femininity might have developed over the millennium. Ms. Thorne is to be commended for crossing boundaries in writing about women of the Bible as real people in a way that few authors do. She is imaginative and yet maintains cultural integrity.
My only criticism is that some of the situations/coincidences seem a bit far-fetched and contrived making them a little less believable. However, all-in-all, I find both books immensely readable, imaginative, entertaining and educational; certainly, progressive in promoting women as multi-dimensional characters in our very ancient history.
The story line was random, didn't make sense, and had too many holes and connections that didn't fit for me. A couple characters were interesting but the majority just left questions. I finished the book because I am a fast reader and was hoping it would turn and get better; but it just got worse for me. There were moments where I was saying, "OK, I want to know where this goes" but most moments were just wishing I understood why the author would go that direction.
This is definitely not what most should see as "Biblical fiction" . There is more reference, connection, and respect of culture and history from other sources than the Biblical perspective and characters. I normally love Biblical fiction and historical fiction, seeing how the history of the Bible is connected to what is happening in those surroundings and time frames. I just could not connect or make sense of it. I was looking forward to a story about an otherwise forgotten character but ended just forgetting the story (or wishing I could).