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Great plot - Rated
I loved the story line of this book. Sister Ria has escaped from her unpleasant home life to become a nun some years ago. But now she hears that her father has been found guilty of the murder of a prostitute and sentenced to execution, and feels bound by the promise she made to her mother to return home to look after her father. By the time she gets there the execution is only 8 days away. We follow Sister Ria as she tries to unravel the truth around the prostitute's death and struggles to come to terms with her resentment of her father.
I thought the storyline was imaginative and well crafted with a couple of nice twists at the end. I also found Sister Ria's personal journey through hatred and resentment to eventual understanding and support for her father interesting. But overall, I wasn't as impressed with the quality of the writing. I didn't get a feeling of being in Los Angeles in the 1880's (if it hadn't told you on the first page I wouldn't have known the book was set in this era), nor did I really feel that I got to know the other characters. Sister Ria herself isn't a very interesting character; other main characters (her father, Aba the housekeeper) behave in erratic and/or bizarre ways, but we don't get to understand why.
What a disappointment! - Rated
Having waited for so long for the next Thomas Eidosn novel to appear I was thrilled when it finally became available (albeit with a different title). Reading it however was a huge disappointment. I could not empathise with the main character and the reason for Don Lugo's eccentric behaviour was never made clear. If you want to read a Thomas Eidson novel try any of them but this one. The others are great, this one is not.
Thoroughly Disappointed - Rated
I have read all of Thomas Eidson's previous novels. In fact I had just re-read all of them and found them as captivating as I had the first time. Each of them were read in a matter of a couple of days as the stories race along with good character development etc and I at least find myself pulled into the stories. I was expecting the same from this book but just did not get it. The character of Sister Ria was uninteresting and uninspiring, Don Lugo was just a bizarre nothing character who the reader never really understood or had any empathy at all with. Rather than the hard to put down book I was expecting I found it the opposite - it was hard to pick up. I perserved with it to the end hoping it would turn round and get back to the high standards of its predecessors. Unfortunately not and I was, and am, thoroughly disappointed by it
