The Pharaoh's Daughter by Mesu Andrews

Anippe has grown up in the shadows of Egypt's good god Pharoah, aware that Anubis, god of the afterlife, may take her or her siblings at any moment. She watched him snatch her mother and infant brother during childbirth, a moment that awakened in her a terrible dread of ever bearing a child. Now she is to become the bride of Sebak, the kind but quick-tempered captain of Pharoah Tut's army. In order to provide Sebak the heir he deserves and yet protect herself from the underworld gods, Anippe must launch a series of deceptions, even invoking the Hebrew midwives - women ordered by Tut to drown the sons of their own people in the Nile.
When she finds a baby floating in a basket on the great river, Anippe believes Egypt's gods have answered her pleas, entrenching her more deeply in deception and placing her and her son, Mehy, whom handmaiden Miriam calls Moses, in mortal danger.
As bloodshed and savage politics shift the balance of power in Egypt, the gods reveal their fickle natures and Anippe wonders if her son, a boy of Hebrew blood, could one day become king. Or does the god of her Hebrew servants, the one they call El Shaddai, have a different plan for them all?


First of all, this book is a novel that is not Biblically based so if that bothers you,  then don't bother. However, if you're open to different interpretations, each resulting in the main aspects of the Moses story being biblically true, then I would highly recommend this book. I love that it is based on the woman who raised Moses, instead of Moses himself or his birth mother. There is so much turmoil and mystery and suspense, surrounded by an unbreakable faith of the Hebrews that it is breathtaking. A great story, graphic at times, but written by a great Christian author.

8 out of 10.