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A review by ink_squid
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
5.0
WOW.
I wasn't sure I would like "The Red Tent". It kept coming up in my recommendations. I added it to, and removed it from my "to read" list several times. Although I like Historical Fiction, I have not read any set in Biblical Times. I am not religious and worried the story might be overly pious.
I put all that aside and am delighted I did. This book is like a glass of red wine on a beautiful evening, feet on wet grass etc. etc. It's really really good. I think I have a crush on it.
Initially the flowing language was what I was captured by and found I wasn't taking the story in. I quickly got used to the language and loved how it pulled me into the story rather than distract from it.
It is broken into three parts, each quite separate from the others. Main characters from one part were not in the others. Each part stood on it's own as a part of the bigger picture of Dinah's life. They build to show how she comes to be the strong person she is by the end. By this point of course I was like a madwoman giggling and crying over how much I loved this. There was a random stranger beside me in Starbucks and I really wanted to tell her to read this book now!
I wasn't sure I would like "The Red Tent". It kept coming up in my recommendations. I added it to, and removed it from my "to read" list several times. Although I like Historical Fiction, I have not read any set in Biblical Times. I am not religious and worried the story might be overly pious.
I put all that aside and am delighted I did. This book is like a glass of red wine on a beautiful evening, feet on wet grass etc. etc. It's really really good. I think I have a crush on it.
Initially the flowing language was what I was captured by and found I wasn't taking the story in. I quickly got used to the language and loved how it pulled me into the story rather than distract from it.
It is broken into three parts, each quite separate from the others. Main characters from one part were not in the others. Each part stood on it's own as a part of the bigger picture of Dinah's life. They build to show how she comes to be the strong person she is by the end. By this point of course I was like a madwoman giggling and crying over how much I loved this. There was a random stranger beside me in Starbucks and I really wanted to tell her to read this book now!