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BOOK REVIEW: The Heavens Before
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by: Barbara Warren Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: The Heavens Before Author: Kacy Barnett Gramckow Publisher: Moody Publishers ISBN: 080241363-3 Genre: Inspirational/Biblical/Fiction Book one of the Genesis Trilogy. I liked this book so much I bought rest of the series. Twenty-five years ago Annah witnessed the brutal murder of her father, by her brother, Yerakh. When he noticed her cowering in the shadows, Yerakh ordered her not to speak. Annah, a young child at the time, took him literally. Shocked and terrified for her life, she hasn’t spoken since. The villagers think she is mad. Then Annah meets Shem, Son of Noah, and suddenly, for the first time she can remember, she is loved, considered a person of worth. Naomi, mother of Shem, makes Yerakh an offer for Annah he can’t refuse and he gives her to Shem in marriage. Finally she is safe, among people who love her and treat her well. Noakh and his sons are building an enormous, dark rectangular structure of wood they casually refer to as the pen. The villagers laugh at them, but the wooden storage chest was built on the instructions of the Most High. Annah doesn’t know what to think of the wooden structure, but then one day the animals arrived, coming two by two, and calmly entering the pen. A short time later the rains came. The Heavens Before is a fascinating story of the people who lived in the days before the flood. Kacy Barnett Gramckow brings Noah and his family to life and gives us a taste of what living must have been like on the Ark.
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