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    Counted With the Stars
    Counted With the Stars
    Counted With the Stars
    Audiobook10 hours

    Counted With the Stars

    Written by Connilyn Cossette

    Narrated by Sarah Mollo-Christensen

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    About this audiobook

    Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was supposed to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a mistress who takes pleasure in her humiliation. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya is in the middle of it all.

    Choosing to flee with the Hebrews, Kiya finds herself reliant on a strange God and drawn to a man who despises her people. With everything she's ever known swept away and now facing the trials of the desert, will she turn back toward Egypt or surrender her life and her future to Yahweh?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 8, 2017
    ISBN9781541480957
    Counted With the Stars
    Author

    Connilyn Cossette

    Connilyn Cossette (www.connilyncossette.com) is a Christy Award and Carol Award-winning author whose books have been found on ECPA and CBA bestseller lists. When she is not engulfed in the happy chaos of homeschooling two teenagers, devouring books whole, or avoiding housework, she can be found digging into the rich ancient world of the Bible to discover gems of grace that point to Jesus and weaving them into an immersive fiction experience. Although she and her husband have lived all over the country in their twenty-plus years of marriage, they currently call a little town south of Dallas, Texas, their home.

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    • 5/5
      Excellently done. I`ll sure be listening ti more of your writings.
    • 5/5
      I loved the book. I have read the book but not a fan of the audio version.
    • 5/5
      Great story about the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt! But a wonderful story of love and what can happen through terrible situations and trials! Loved the story but loved the historical aspect and true depictions of what the people went through after they were guided by Moses through the wilderness!
    • 4/5
      Beautiful! A wonderful story about the goodness of God and a tension of our human understanding of Him. My only criticism is that at the end of almost every chapter some of the audio was cut off. I can’t be sure of how much I missed.
    • 4/5
      I'm always wary of biblical fiction because I have really high standards but Cosette did a great job. The narrator did well with a variety of voices.
    • 5/5
      This ways a pleasant surprise. It was an engaging, well told story.
    • 5/5
      Wonderful encounter with the God of freedom! This book has given me a whole new perspective on the God of Israel!
    • 4/5
      I’ve been wanting to read this book for years, and thankfully, it didn’t disappoint me! Even as a debut author, Cossette has had a knack for writing solid Biblical fiction. I’ve always wondered what it must have been like to be an Egyptian at the time of the Exodus, and she gave me an excellent picture of that in this book. There were one or two things that made me wonder if they really would have happened at that time, but overall, this closely followed the Biblical account. A satisfying read; highly recommended!*Story does include some violence.
    • 3/5
      *** They would not have had tomatoes in Egypt.***

      Just had to say that first.

      I liked parts of this book and enjoyed seeing some possible interpretations of the miracles of Exodus. I also liked the point of view of the Egyptian woman rather than Israelite. I did not like the romance, insta hate to insta love. Parts of the story were slow and didn't feel very compelled to keep reading once they left Egypt. I did especially like the message that faith cannot be based on miracles or what you see with your eyes. Even the most amazing miracle can be explained away or just ignored. Miracles can increase faith that's already there but are not a foundation for faith. Faith is a choice to hope, a decision to trust.
    • 5/5
      The sub-genre of Biblical fiction is, surprisingly, new to me. I have never encountered it prior to reading Connilyn Cossette’s Counted with the Stars. I enjoy Christian fiction and cannot get enough historical fiction so I eagerly delved into this novel.This is the story of the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt. I didn’t understand the terminology of the timeframes (i.e.: 1st Day of Akhet, Season of inundation), but that didn’t interfere with the story at all. The timeline for the novel is basically 1447-8 BC. That was enough for me to place the story.A thirteen-year-old Egyptian girl, Kiya, is sold into slavery to settle the debts her father incurred from his failed business. She is sold to his friend, Shefu, as a handmaiden for his wife, Tekurah. Tekurah lives to humiliate her slaves, and the fact that Kiya is a favorite of her husband’s infuriates her. She treats Kiya worse, if that is possible, than the Hebrew slaves. Kiya befriends another slave, Shira, and the girls become best friends. Together they endure their indentured life. As Kiya does her best to satisfy her mistress, the ten plagues are visited upon Egypt. Author Cossette does an amazing job in making reader’s skin crawl with the lizards, lice, frogs, grasshoppers, etc. that invade the desert country. They came a little too close together in my mind. It was like one day for each of the plagues.As the Hebrews are forced to flee Egypt to escape the deaths of first-born sons, Kiya decides to follow them. As the review from Publisher’s Weekly stated, “Readers will smell the fear on Passover night, feel the wonder of the Red Sea crossing, and sympathize with the starving and thirsting of those escaping in the wilderness.”Attention of detail and well-developed characters make this a stand-out novel. As I read in “A Note From the Author,” I learned that names in Ancient Egyptian culture are extremely important. I wish Cossette had given us more information about that, but since I didn’t know that while I was reading, that is really an afterthought. There is one area where the names were an issue, especially in the beginning. Many of the characters names began with “s,” which was confusing. Sometimes I had to flip back to remember who was who, especially in regards to the secondary characters. It is for this reason, I give Counted with the Stars (Book 1: Out of Egypt series) 4 out 5 stars.
    • 5/5
      Kiya was expecting to be wife to Akhum. But one day her world is turned upside down. She is sold into slavery to pay off her father's debts. She has a disabled brother who her mother has to take care of. She is the property of her father's friend, Shefu. Kiya is Egyptian and she becomes friends with a Hebrew slave girl, named Shira. Her mistress, Tekurah, Shefu's wife is very cruel to Kiya and she doesn't know why. Then Egypt is visited by the plagues and when her master, Shefu finds out what the last plague is, the death of the first born, Jumo, Kiya's brother is first born son. He convinces her to get her brother and mother out of Egypt and with the Hebrews, Shira's family. She is having a conflict within herself about who to serve. The gods she has served all her life or this new scary god who is all powerful.She is also having a conflict of hers feelings for Shira's brother, Eben, or still longing for her lost love, Akhum.She also has a personal discovery that comes from her mother.Join Kiya, Jumo and her mother as they go through life changing experiences, both personal and spiritual.I love this book. You will too.Pick up a copy, you won't regret it.I received a complimentary copy from Bethany House for this review.
    • 5/5
      Kiya was expecting to be wife to Akhum. But one day her world is turned upside down. She is sold into slavery to pay off her father's debts. She has a disabled brother who her mother has to take care of. She is the property of her father's friend, Shefu. Kiya is Egyptian and she becomes friends with a Hebrew slave girl, named Shira. Her mistress, Tekurah, Shefu's wife is very cruel to Kiya and she doesn't know why. Then Egypt is visited by the plagues and when her master, Shefu finds out what the last plague is, the death of the first born, Jumo, Kiya's brother is first born son. He convinces her to get her brother and mother out of Egypt and with the Hebrews, Shira's family. She is having a conflict within herself about who to serve. The gods she has served all her life or this new scary god who is all powerful.She is also having a conflict of hers feelings for Shira's brother, Eben, or still longing for her lost love, Akhum.She also has a personal discovery that comes from her mother.Join Kiya, Jumo and her mother as they go through life changing experiences, both personal and spiritual.I love this book. You will too.Pick up a copy, you won't regret it.
    • 5/5
      Truly inspiring!A beautiful story that takes the Book of Exodus and gives it a human face. Not just that, but we see the experience from the viewpoint of the Egyptian young woman Kiya. Kiya's life has changed when her father's business fails and she is sold into slavery to allow her mother and much beloved brother to go free. Her life goes literally from great riches to the depths of agony and despair. As a slave she comes into contact with a young Hebrew woman, Shira.This is at a time just before the Exodus out of Egypt begins. The failing of Kiya's gods in the face of Yahweh and then the flight from Egypt and the challenges of journey in the wilderness is fascinating. The picture painted of the plagues that beset Egypt are vividly painted and entirely believable. As Kiya's whole belief system is being destroyed, the story argues for the 'stranger within the gate' concept when Shira aka Kirya, her mother and her brother to join her family on the night of the last most devastating judgement on the Egypt. The novel brings to reality the experience of the various plagues visited upon Egypt--exposing to Aliya, in visitation by visitation the powerlessness of the various Egyptian gods in the face of Yahweh.What comes through is the freedom to choose, the love and grace of Yahweh, and Yahweh's awesomeness.The enormity of the trek from one group of exiles perspective unfolds brilliantly, and the extent of Yahweh's grace is masterfully portrayed.A NetGalley ARC
    • 5/5
      I can't wait for the next book in the series to come out! I feel as though this book is just the start of an amazing journey and I want to be a part of every step, heartbreak, and trial. Kiya's strength through the book was AMAZING. Even though it is based in biblical times I see a lot of myself in her.