Life, Love and Books

    The Prince and The Prodigal by Jill Eileen Smith   This is a retelling of the biblical story of Joseph alongside the story of his eldest brother Judah.  We find Joseph being trained to take over as the heir to his fathers flocks. Which causes much strife between Joseph and his elder brothers  to the point of causing grief for their elderly father. Joseph finds himself in a very foreign land as an servant to powerful man. While back with his family, eldest brother Judah is struggling with the guilt that came with selling his younger brother to slave traders. Weighed down with seeing his father grieving for his beloved son, Judah chooses to move away and settle in a different land. Each of the brothers are taken on very much different journeys that leads them down a path that intersect later in life. Jill Eileen Smith takes a well known bible story and gives us a deeper insight to it. She helps us to see deeper into the relationship between Joseph and his eldest brother. I love readi

          The Lady of Galoway Manor by Jennifer Deibel In this novel we go back to the 1920's Ireland; where we meet Annabeth DeLacy, a young lady whose family moved from Britain. Having an interest in working with craftsman, her father gets her an apprenticeship with the family who descended from the creator the famed Claddagh ring. Stephen Jennings has grown up with the shadow of romance and love all around him. After having his heart broken he no longer want to follow in his fathers footsteps of creating jewelry.   When Annabeth walks into his family's workshop, Stephen  is not happy take on a privileged young lady as others in his village are struggling to survive. After being appointed by his father to teach the jewelry making to Annabeth, Stephen choses to do his best to see that she is bored of it. But what he did not realize is that Annabeth is thrilled with a challenge. The more time Stephen spends with Annabeth, he starts to see a different side to her compared to wha