Book Review of JERUSALEM MAIDEN
Let me start off by saying that Jerusalem Maiden is going to piss off the feminists among us. Author Talia Carner's main character, Esther, is a woman from an ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism called Haredi...in the early 1900s. So, to say that Esther has limited freedom is putting it mildly. Reading Jerusalem Maiden was extremely eye-opening for me, in many ways. I love historical fiction, but I feel like the market is over-saturated with WW2...