Out of Egypt Series

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I’ve been hearing the stories about the Jewish peoples enslavement and subsequent journey out of Egypt since before I had the ability to remember. The stories have always been somewhat removed and far-feeling….ancient even. However, The Out of Egypt series by Connilyn Cossette brought these stories to life and I now see the people in the Bible stories with faces, and emotions, and with reality.

Counted With the Stars follows Kiya, a young lady who was once a member of the wealthy families, being sold into slavery by her own family. As one can imagine, this comes with some difficulty after such a lavish lifestyle. Kiya is sent to the home of an old family acquaintance to take care of a demanding wife of a merchant. Along her journey to survive her new surroundings, Egypt is experiencing plagues and she is caught in the middle of her two paths in life.

In the second installment, Connilyn Cossette continues Kiyah’s story but focuses on Shira, a Hebrew girl who helped rescue Kiyah out of Egypt. Set in the first part of the 40 years of wandering, Shira is being tested along with the Jewish peoples. She is being torn in becoming who her family says she should be and who God wants her to become. Will Shira find her voice and take up her calling?

The third book in the Out of Egypt saga was my least favorite but still a good read. I had hoped for a continuation of the characters I had grown to love and know but instead they were only barely referenced with no details. Thus, this book could be read as a standalone.

Alanah is a fierce girl who is determined to gain revenge on the Hebrews who destroyed her life by killing her father and brothers. After being wounded in battle, a Hebrew man named Tobiah comes to her aid. They are married under Jewish law but the differences in their cultures soon become evident and Alanah must decide if she wants to join a family with Tobiah as her husband or if she wants to remain an outsider and seek the revenge she was so eager to get.

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