2010 Books
Mar. 2nd, 2010 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordlj7. Angel Time - Anne Rice
Awful. I don't know why i persevered. The story blurb says it is about a hit man who finds redemption after a guardian angel whisks him back to medieval Norwich to right a wrong. I'm paraphrasing here. I thought that sounded interesting. the first bit of the book was all about the hit man and his works and how he likes to visit missions in the area. It's very Catholic dogmatic. Then this angel appears and shows him back over his life, ie. shows us his childhood. Grim. Also lots of religious content. This is getting to feel like a sermon. Now we're back into medival Norwich. ah, maybe it will pick up now. He's transformed into a Dominican. There's a Jewish family who has been accused of murdering their daughter after she went into the cathedral to see the Christmas spectacles. They didn't of course, she got ill and died but they in their ignorant wisdom and anti-Semitism of the age, not long after similar events in Lincoln caused a child to be martyred and sainted, get them whipped up into a similar frenzy. Enter Brother Toby. And then the story stops again and we get chapter and chapter and verse about the life of the mother of the girl. Why? No idea. More religion. Oh look, the girl that died has a twin sister who's living in Paris with her biological father, who became a monk since he fathered the children. He didn't know about the children, but the minute he did, he came and took one back with him. You know what's going to happen next of course. And it had a very Bobby Ewing like ending. Was it all a dream or not? It makes me feel like the author must have rediscovered her religion, a born again Catholic, and frankly, i felt like the book was more about that than the thin thread of story. Bleh.
Awful. I don't know why i persevered. The story blurb says it is about a hit man who finds redemption after a guardian angel whisks him back to medieval Norwich to right a wrong. I'm paraphrasing here. I thought that sounded interesting. the first bit of the book was all about the hit man and his works and how he likes to visit missions in the area. It's very Catholic dogmatic. Then this angel appears and shows him back over his life, ie. shows us his childhood. Grim. Also lots of religious content. This is getting to feel like a sermon. Now we're back into medival Norwich. ah, maybe it will pick up now. He's transformed into a Dominican. There's a Jewish family who has been accused of murdering their daughter after she went into the cathedral to see the Christmas spectacles. They didn't of course, she got ill and died but they in their ignorant wisdom and anti-Semitism of the age, not long after similar events in Lincoln caused a child to be martyred and sainted, get them whipped up into a similar frenzy. Enter Brother Toby. And then the story stops again and we get chapter and chapter and verse about the life of the mother of the girl. Why? No idea. More religion. Oh look, the girl that died has a twin sister who's living in Paris with her biological father, who became a monk since he fathered the children. He didn't know about the children, but the minute he did, he came and took one back with him. You know what's going to happen next of course. And it had a very Bobby Ewing like ending. Was it all a dream or not? It makes me feel like the author must have rediscovered her religion, a born again Catholic, and frankly, i felt like the book was more about that than the thin thread of story. Bleh.
