Leah Book

Leah was a good book. Let that part sink in first. I'd hope for some time now that an author would take up the cross to bring Leah's life to us in fictional form.Shott did. The book begins with Jacob being a worker for Laban, as is true in Scripture. Then it wastes no time getting to the nitty gritty of trickery, the part we've learned so well from reading about Jacob, Rachel and Leah. What I liked is that Shott portrays Leah as intelligent wife, the wife with all the smarts even if she lacks sexiness. He gave Leah worth albeit sexual characteristics that Rachel had. At many points in the story, I was sympathetic to Leah's plight of being unloved because she put up no resistance to anything. She accepted Jacob's cruelty without complaint while still supporting him as a wife. There was a little inconsistency illustrating Leah's eyes. First, her eyes were weak but several times throughout the book Shott gives illuminance to Leah's eyes as "big, beautiful and expressive." It should have been one or the other. It was like Shott lost focus in how he wanted to present Leah's weakness. Also missing are scenes that make Jacob and Leah closer after Rachel's death. I mean really, how many walks and conversations can a man and wife have and not have more than just walking and talking? Overall, I liked this book.