Counted With the Stars Book Review

Title: Counted With the Stars

Author: Connilyn Cossette

Genre: Christian, Biblical Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Action/Adventure, Egypt,

Plot: Young Kiya has everything that wealth can bring, including an indulgent father, loving mother and sweet big brother. But her reality comes crashing down when her father's ships sink, taking down the family's livelihood with them and Kiya finds herself sold into slavery to pay the debts incurred. Thankfully, she is bought by the close family friend Shefu. Unfortunately, Shefu's bitter wife hates her and takes delight in Kiya's reduced status and humiliation. And on top of that, her handsome betrothed soldier Akhum abandons her for another wealthy girl of status.

But all is not lost. Kiya befriends a sweet Hebrew slave girl named Shira and watches in increasing horror and awe as ten devastating plagues sweep through her beloved Egypt, each one more terrifying than the last until, in order to save her brother's life, Kiya flees Egypt with the Hebrews. Homeless and godless, Kiya agonizes over whether or not she made the right choice, not realizing that she is on the very path that God wants her to be on.

Likes/Dislikes: This is a very unique story of Moses and the mass exodus out of Egypt from the eyes of an Egyptian slave who flees with the Hebrews. I really enjoyed that angle of the story though it flet like the author rushed through the plagues a little. It's rather obvious that this is a debut novel; it's very fancy worded which was close to overkill in some areas. "My chest ached after enduring the abuse of my furiously thrashing heart." Still, there's a lot of potential from this author. The main character, though apparently eighteen, is very immature for most of the book which annoyed me, though that's just my own personal thing. I like mature main characters and female main characters are often extremely hard for me to like cause they're just so wishy-washy and whiny. Kiya was okay mostly but wasted an awful lot of time being infatuated with Eben. All in all, a pretty good book.

Rating: PG-16 and up, mainly for content {some suggestive hints of attacks on women and bloody deaths, etc.}.

Date Review Written: September 27th, 2016

I received a free copy of this book courtesy of the publishers in exchange for an honest opinion. I wasn't required to write a positive review and the opinions expressed in the above review are y own.