BOOK REVIEWS: THE PRINCE'S PSALM

TITLE : THE PRINCE'S PSALM

AUTHOR: ERIC SHAW QUINN

I always love a fictionalization of historical events let alone biblical. This book is an epic tale of love and tragedy and faith as what most of the stories in the bible are. Yet despite how complex and often time contradicting the tales written in the bible, it takes a master story teller to put all things together and weave a beautiful story of David and Jonathan. I have all praises to the author for pulling the strings. Eric's talent in story telling is compelling and I could see that he treated the story and the characters with utmost respect. The way he created the characters of David and Jonathan are so real and relatable. He is so brave to even tackle this topic in the bible. It's not about homosexuality anymore as the story progressed, it's about love, loyalty and duty and how to go beyond the call of human emotion just to answer the call of faith. The book is beautifully written.

Yes! You're right. this is the story of the famous David who killed the giant Philistine warrior named Goliath by hurling a stone with a slingshot. In the bible, the God favored David. The prophet anointed him while the people of Israel placed him in a pedestal as one of the nation's heroes. In the end he became king.

But there is more to the story than what we normally know and this is a fiction writer's job to do their magic and recreate the tale. Writers often cheat us when it comes to pulling all these information. They're ability to go beyond imagining as to what really happened, read between the lines, putting pieces together and creating compelling dialogues and scenes through extensive research and later on masterfully and eloquently put them in words to create a beautiful masterpiece like the The Prince's Psalm.

I enjoyed this book so much I didn't want it to end. As a reader, I was rooting for David and Jonathan's love for each other and that their bond and commitment is enough to save everyone. But we all know the biblical tale and how the tragedy of their relationship ended to give way for David to become King. But still, because the characters were created with love and realistically - it was easy for me to see them as men who's love for each other was beyond grave and not just the biblical characters of a hero and a king.

I highly recommend this book to those who are open minded readers who just wanted to be entertain. This is one of my great reads for this year I have to say and I'm hoping that the master Eric Shaw Quinn will write more of this type of books.

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