That child would carry on the name and inheritance of the dead brother, and would provide for the widow in her old age. Her husband, a wicked man, had died, and the Jewish law at the time was that the husband’s brother would marry the widow and give her a child. This is one of my favourite stories! Tamar was the daugher-in-law of Judah, one of the twelve sons of Jacob. Nabal died 10 days later, and Abigail became David’s wife. Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.Ībigail’s actions saved the lives of the servants that were depending on her. May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. She gave a diplomatic speech that persuaded David not to do what he was planning on doing. Abigail realized what was going on, and, without her husband’s knowledge, gathered gifts and offerings together and met David along the way, presenting him with the peace offering. Nabal went out of his way to offend David, and David and his men came to seek justice. She was married to a horribly abusive, foolish man named Nabal. So yeah, read this for so much trans joy! I found it really empowering and heartwarming and just super loveable.Abigail, who was intelligent and beautiful, lived during the time of King David. The book might be short but it really shows how there's many ways to be non-binary - one of them uses they/them pronouns and one of them uses she/her pronouns, for instance. The second first is that I don't think I've previously read a romance between two non-binary characters, which was just absolutely amazing. I often get the impression that authors and/or publishers shy away from this and I think it does so much in terms of normalization and acceptance to just embrace it and go for it. This book also meant two firsts for me: my first book where the person using they/them pronouns is writting from third person POV, meaning you see A LOT of their pronouns. Seeing so much trans joy just makes me so happy and it makes me feel like I get to be happy too.
I absolutely adore that because it's something I really crave. This novella really reminded me of Xan West's books, which you know I love, because they had the same kindness and the same joy and the same care. This was absolutely delightful and such a fluffy Christmas novella, and I think I may have just found a new favourite author. Oh my god I'm literally grinning like a dork over here thinking about what I've just read.
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