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Connilynn Cossette's Counted With The Stars

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Connilynn Cossette became a blip on my radar last March when, through social media, I became aware of her aspirations to publish a novel based upon the Exodus. As a voracious reader of biblical fiction, I've been following the progress of Counted With the Stars with Stars with uncontainable enthusiasm. It's not often that this sub-genre of historical fiction welcomes a fresh perspective. Connilyn brings fresh perspective and so much more in her debut novel Counted With the Stars.

A strong point of this novel is it's characters and their development. The narrative is delivered through the first person point of view of Kiya. Ripped from a life of luxury, Kiya despairs over the loss of her family as well as the hardships she must endure in servitude …show more content…
For the first time, I questioned how word of Moses' confrontations with Pharaoh would have been relayed through a nation as large as Egypt. Word of mouth, speculation, and pagan superstitions could have helped or hurt the Hebrews by stirring up a mixture of resentment and fear towards them. Have you ever considered how each plague was a targeted attack the gods of Egypt? I had done so through the eyes of a Christian, but never through an Egyptians perspective. Finally, I've read the biblical accounts numerous times and each time I've skimmed over God's protection of the Israelites from the 5th plague on livestock. By doing so, God (Jehovah-Jireh) provided the sacrificial lambs of Passover. (See also Genesis 22:13-14, Exodus 9 & 12, & 1 Corinthians 5:7.) This book did for me the very thing that endears me to biblical fiction — it sent me searching the scriptures.

I'd like to conclude with a few general remarks. Connilyn's approach to the retelling of Exodus is as unique as it is compelling. She was able to elicit genuine concern for Kiya's salvation to the point that I wondered if she would be "ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding." Finally, I recognized and respect the authors acknowledgement that God sees value in every life. Counted With the Stars has the perfect measure of heart and

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