Rachel isn't very likeable.

Interesting take on the story of Jacob

This had to be a difficult book to write since there are 4 women in the story, and much of it had to be left to the authors imagination. I think he did a pretty good job though and still tried to stay as true to the story as possible, while attempting to fill in gaps.

Sad part 2 so slow to be released...WAITING

I struggled with this book because it didn't align with what is written in the Bible. If it was written about women from that time period, instead of about Rachel and Leah I would have enjoyed it more. It was written well otherwise.

This are well written and appear to be accurate within the confines of the biblical notions of women in the Bible. However, Orson Scott Card's views on other issues stopped me from continuing the series.

This was my least favorite of the 3. Very contrived.

I loved this book and how it told the classic Bible story with language that was understandable and with rich characters that you could relate to. Which is really cool, to relate with people from the Bible!

This is the 3rd in series. I liked them all.

Hi I am Leah and I am 15 years old.

I don’t know...a little too trite? All who follow “The One True God” (tm) are decent people. Everyone else sucks. Sorry for the spoilers.

Myths, fairy tales, stories told in the oral tradition of ancient people have always a compelling fascination, even for modern readers.  However, being a modern reader, I also love in-depth character development, psychological analysis, detailed dialogues, and exploration of complex relationships, so I have an especial fondness for the novels in which an author tells one of those ancient stories and builds in those modern components.  This is precisely what Orson Scott Card does in Rachel and Leah, developing strong, unique personalities for all the familiar but flat Biblical characters.  He devises events and emotions to provide comprehensible motives and reasons for actions that, in the Biblical telling, sometimes seem baldfacedly cruel—such as Laban’s trickery in substituting his daughter Leah for Rachel in Jacob’s marriage bargain.  In Card’s story, everyone’s motives are good, and the trickery becomes a misunderstanding, leaving the reader feeling sympathetic towards all the characters, and villainizing no one.