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I was assured from several sources that if I enjoyed The Red Tent, I would enjoy Sarah. No two books could be further apart in their value. The Red Tent is a fascinating, nuanced, well researched tale that gives voice and agency to women who are only glanced over in the Bible. Sarah is a bland, generically romantic story that bears no resemblance to any characters or cultures from the Bible. I don't normally set books aside, but by page 156, it became apparent that Halter was going to reduce Sarah to nothing but two dimensional desires for romance and children. There is no nuance and no depth to Sarah's character. She exists to love Abram. She is not a person, she is a collection of ideas of what men think women want - a thing far removed from what women want.

The combination of a completely two dimensional heroine, a lack of research into Mesopotamian cultures and a strange disconnect from any Biblical Abram or Sarai renders this book completely unreadable.