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Jun 12, 2012modestgoddess rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I didn't love this. It was okay, but was, unfortunately, your typical American-has-to-have-a-happy-ending novel. Really stretched credibility. Did provide an interesting window onto an unfortunate past, but the characters' personal lives were very difficult to believe. One example: at one point, the deaf-mute, Homan, escapes from a church that allegedly heals people's physical ailments and handicaps, with a young man in a wheelchair. They run from the front of the church, up the aisle through lots and lots of people who miraculously get out of their way, out to the parking lot - and somehow, Homan gets the young man, in his wheelchair, loaded into his special vehicle and gets in himself and the young man indicates where the keys are - conveniently, in a purse sitting on the front seat - and away they go, before people come flooding out of the church to stop them. Sorry, don't buy it - no way could he have done all that before someone caught up to them and stopped them. There were a few odd moments here and there, like this one, that just tripped me right up, and I really resent that in a book. I want to be able to keep reading and believing, not stopping and thinking, "No way could that ever have happened."