booklogging

I was surprised by how I got into this book I got and how easy it was to read. I found that I cared about the characters [including the possibility that one of the main ones may have been murdered -though we never find out]. What I liked was the way that we see through each charater's eyes and so we develop a multi-perspectival view of events and we are chalenged, implicitly, toremember that other people are really people and not just two dimensional characters in the narrative of our lives. The Father -Reg- is a good case in point. He seems to be the demonised one and yet his redemption comes. The other interesting thing, for me, is the religious dimension in all of this. You can't get away from the God issue. However religion and spirituality are presented in a full way: no simplistic stuff here: there is good and bad and even the good and bad can vary according to where when and who.

I was surprised because this kind of literature is not normally my thing but it's well written and deep enough to keep my interest and the character and plot [in as far as plot is a good description] carried me forward.