Review: Capturing Freedom

Capturing Freedom by Angelique Conger
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

​I did receive an ARC of this book. I purchased a copy as well to support the author.

Capturing Freedom is the second book of a series by Angelique Conger. The series follows two children, grandchildren of Adam and Eve, in the time of the Bible. Man has fallen by this time and are following a collection of Gods. Nat has been kidnapped and sold to a series of evil slave owners. Because of his knowledge of reading he has worked his way up to the personal servant of high priest of one of the Gods. His sister, Ziva, was a little bit luckier. She was bought as a child to replace the child of a wealthy man. The young girl who had passed away when she was involved in an accident in town with her mother. Mother survived but not for long. The father kept her, not as a slave, but as a daughter. All of this is told in the first book and is back storied in quite nicely.

In this book, ZIva is expecting her first child, and then several more. Nat has committed himself to a young woman before the God Jehova. When the sneak time together, hard to do when you are a slave, she finds that she is with child. Any child born to a slave woman belongs to the master so they do not want this child born there. Nat, working with Ziva and her father work together to get the pregnant woman to be free. Meanwhile, the home of Ziva is attacked. If it had been an army it would have been easy. But disease is running through her home.

Ms. Conger blends the stories together quite well. Even though we can guess the ending (look at the title of the book) it still is interesting how we get there. This is a clean book that I would have no problem suggesting to any age. It is purely fiction, we do not know who lived at these time, or how their societies worked. I can imagine that this was the way of life for these people quite easily.

I recommend this book to any who are looking for a Biblical times story. If a movie, it would be rated PG for some scenes of violence, Nat being flogged is one of them. Enjoy.

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