The Sisters of Corinth
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The Sisters of Corinth
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Narrated by:
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Leah Horowitz
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Rachel Botchan
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By:
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Angela Hunt
About this listen
When the new provincial governor arrives in Corinth, the esteemed Chief Magistrate Narkis Ligus, father to Mariana and Prima, is delighted. He sees a golden opportunity to propel himself to greater power and fortune by uniting his and the governor’s households through the marriage of one of his beautiful unwed daughters to the governor’s firstborn son.
Yet complications quickly arise in Narkis’s own family. Mariana, his stepdaughter, holds steadfast faith in Yeshua, rendering her hesitant to marry a man devoted to the Roman gods, despite Narkis’s urging. On the other hand, Prima, his daughter by birth, yearns for a life of wealth and status and is willing to go to great lengths to secure a marriage that fulfills her desires—even if it means betraying Mariana to do so.
“Angela Hunt takes her craft to new heights—and depths—as she fully immerses us in the lives and struggles of first-century followers of Yeshua.”—Tamera Alexander, bestselling author on The Woman from Lydia
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This is hard to offer this judgement, I really enjoyed some of Hunt's Jerusalem Road books; I guess it's much harder to build an original climax better than Jesus' resurrection. A significant part of the story holds on how well you perceive offering of incense as an act of worship, which in my world is hard to identify with. Instead, the emotional weight could be found in the characters relationships. Francine Rivers writes a similar story with A Voice In The Wind so unfortunately I've kind of seen this all before- in my venture of reading biblical fiction it's sad to be able to say this was actually predictable.
If you like faster passed stories this is for you, but maybe the consistent time jumps of weeks at a time were the spaces where we missed those little moments to build cute, mundaine connections.
I kinda doubt this is the author's favorite of their own works.
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