I just love Tracy Higley. I love her books too.
I was excited to read and review her re-release of Isle of Shadows (formerly Shadow of Colossus). Get the first three chapters and more!
The main character, Tessa, is very likeable and believable. I immediately saw her as a heroine and wanted her to succeed in everything: life, love, happiness.
This is the ultimate redemption story, similar to that of many women of the Bible. A fallen woman doesn’t know she needs God and she finds living water. All her problems don’t go away, but having God and other believers help her makes it all more bearable.
I especially love this book because it takes place during Old Testament times. The history is impeccable and accurate. I would love to travel with Tracy as her assistant on one of her research tours!
As always, Tracy Higley weaves real Bible characters into her story. In Isle of Shadows, our Bible character is Simeon, who trusts God to see our Savior before death. I too wonder if they might have been really like that…
Tracy Higley’s books are a beautiful tapestry of Biblical history. The right amount of love story satisfies all audiences. The books don’t glorify evil, but show how God and believers can overcome all evil. I encourage my eldest daughter (12) to read Higley’s books when they coincide with our history studies!
Book Description
Revised and updated from the original, Christy-award finalist Shadow of Colossus.
Enslaved in a World of Money and Power, Tessa Dares to be Free.
Raised as courtesan to wealthy and powerful men, Tessa of Delos serves at the whim of her current patron, the politician Glaucus. After ten years with him, Tessa has abandoned all desire for freedom or love, choosing instead to lock her heart away.
But when Glaucus meets a violent death in his own home, Tessa grasps at a fragile hope. Only she knows of his death. If she can keep it a secret long enough, she can escape.
Tessa throws herself on the mercy of the Greek god Helios, but finds instead unlikely allies in Nikos, a Greek slave, and Simeon, Glaucus’s Jewish head servant. As Simeon introduces her to a God unlike any she has ever known and Nikos begins to stir feelings she had thought long dead, Tessa fights to keep her heart protected.
As an assassination plot comes to light, Tessa must battle for her own freedom—and for those to whom she has begun to open her heart—as forces collide that shatter the island’s peace.
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