Heart of the King: An Epic Fantasy Adventure (The Lords of Alekka Book 4)

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The Heart of a King by Jill Eileen Smith is an intriguing imagining of the life of King Solomon and “the women he loved.”

Overall, The Heart of a King was an intriguing, gripping look into the life of one of history's most famous kings. Highly recommended for fans of well-written Biblical fiction.If, as is to be hoped, the Guardian is successful in exhuming his letters to ministers, we may shortly enjoy some further, not necessarily encouraging, insights into Charles’s interior life. It is regrettable, though all too characteristic, that neither Charles nor his advisers recognised the arrival on his planet of a journalist as shrewd, respected and notably well-disposed as Mayer, as a divinely ordained opportunity for him to say, in somewhat more detail than Shakespeare’s Henry V, “Presume not that I am the thing I was.”

Before I dive into the women, I want to talk about the cameos that King David and Queen Bathsheba had. I just LOVED them and the wisdom they gave to Solomon and the women. Bathsheba was more crucial in the romance while David was crucial in Solomon's kingship. They were some amazing parents and their love was beautiful -- even though it started off rough in sin. Each thing I did, you had to meet another lot of people who have all sorts of views of you beforehand, all sorts of prejudices,” he wittered at a broadly sympathetic Mayer in their original interview, which he declined to supplement with a second.I liked reading about his relationships but I totally understood how Naamah and Nicaula both felt-that they wanted the love of one man and didn't want to share him. What a complicated time! Abishag, the young wife-nurse of David selected by Bathsheba knowing Solomon would marry the young wives of his father. Solomon and Abishag fall in love through grief and love of music. First: There are details and characters in the story that aren’t in the Bible. Jill Smith’s done a great job of explaining this in her “Note to the Reader” at the end of the book. Don’t miss reading this. She explains her heart for this story and the spiritual emphasis that was her guideline for writing it.

In “ The Heart of a King” Jill Eileen Smith adds Solomon’s point of view to her previously published “The Loves of King Solomon” ebook series. I absolutely adored this story. I'm a major fan of both Abishag and Nicaula 😍😍 Naamah was cool. As for Siti 😡⁣ King Solomon pissed me off quite a bit. For all his wisdom, he was a complete fool.⁣ I loved the cameos that King David and Queen Bathsheba had. Truly enjoyed this!!With tenderness and hopefulness, this story will wrap you up and put you in the center of a time, that is only read about in the Bible, of a time many have forgotten to remember. The rich historic detail is vivid and captivating and Smith has once again managed to make me fall in love with yet another amazing book. This is beyond 5 star worthy and I hope you, too, will fall in love with the story of Solomon and his loves. I enjoyed being able to see, not only through the viewpoints of the different wives, but also through Solomon’s eyes as well. This novel is very imaginative, very emotional, and very thought-stirring. It displays King Solomon (and some of his many loves) in a way I’ve never considered before. As each love interest made her appearance, the character of King Solomon became more alive and more understandable. And I could not tear myself away from that inside look! What I loved most about this novel was that it gave Abishag – a personal caregiver to King David and someone I’ve always wondered about – a special and surprising place in the story. I’m still thinking about the connection Jill Eileen Smith made between the woman in The Songs of Solomon and the women highlighted in this novel.