Garden of Madness by Tracy L. Higley
Filed under: Book Reviews on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 by Deanna Gottreu | No CommentsGarden of Madness by Tracy L. Higley was quite an enjoyable book and I would recommend to anyone who likes Biblical fiction. The research for this time period in Babylon was very well done and was true to the facts as found in the Bible. The first of the book was somewhat slow but by the time I was a fourth of the way through I was completely immersed in the story.
Tiamat, the main character was not the typical princess and at times seemed to be a little too modern such as daily runs on the city wall and other exercises in her special exercise room. She also seemed a little too independent for a princess of the time period of the book. Her uncharacteristic lifestyle kept getting her into trouble but she was usually rescued by Pedaiah the brother of her deceased husband or by the prophet Daniel. However her quirkiness made her an engaging character. I thought that the relationship that Tiamat had with her father Nebuchadnezzar during his seven years of living as an animal to be the most touching part of the story.
In the last part of the book, Tiamat has many decisions to make with the main one being if she will give up everything and follow the God of the Israelites to save herself and her father’s kingdom. The ending was predictable but that did not detract from the book.
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