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This is the story of Beaulyn deFaux, a defrocked priest on the last night of his long death thirty years in coming. Like Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, he is essentially alone, tortured by his personal demon, Azra, appearing to him as a vulture and vague memories of a pivotal moment in his childhood, which has made it impossible for him to be anything but what he has become, the miracle priest of the BaUtuu, and what he is to be, the beast of revelation.
Revered as Christ, as the Second Coming of the son of God, Père deFaux is accused of heresy by the Holy Mother Church. Specifically charged with attempting to duplicate the full complement of Jesus’s miracles (which the grand inquisitor’s investigation reveals he actually accomplished not by acts of magic or sleight of hand, but by opening the hearts of sinners to God), Faux is pronounced an apostate and, by papal decree, is laicized. Relieved of his ministry, he disavows his mystic past and drifts through the remainder of his life in a haze of drunken debauchery.
Years went by, and on the last night of his earthbound soul, that pivotal moment in his childhood comes back to haunt him and to demand redress. At first, appearing as a little more than a parish visit by a triumvirate of church ladies, each of whose story is told in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the horrible truth of what happened to him is laid bare in a parallel tale of Hansel stewing in a witch’s pot. And therein is the beast soon to be released on mankind, riffling through the pages of this book.
Revered as Christ, as the Second Coming of the son of God, Père deFaux is accused of heresy by the Holy Mother Church. Specifically charged with attempting to duplicate the full complement of Jesus’s miracles (which the grand inquisitor’s investigation reveals he actually accomplished not by acts of magic or sleight of hand, but by opening the hearts of sinners to God), Faux is pronounced an apostate and, by papal decree, is laicized. Relieved of his ministry, he disavows his mystic past and drifts through the remainder of his life in a haze of drunken debauchery.
Years went by, and on the last night of his earthbound soul, that pivotal moment in his childhood comes back to haunt him and to demand redress. At first, appearing as a little more than a parish visit by a triumvirate of church ladies, each of whose story is told in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the horrible truth of what happened to him is laid bare in a parallel tale of Hansel stewing in a witch’s pot. And therein is the beast soon to be released on mankind, riffling through the pages of this book.
595 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 19, 2017
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October 10, 2017
Warning: I accepted a copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review (below). He retaliated by giving my stuff one-star reviews. Beware before accepting copies if you are an author.
I only made it 50% of the way through this book and was completely repulsed. During the parts that I read, a grown woman had an orgasm while having very graphic thoughts about this boy, this little boy was molested, there is a female character that was raped takes revenge and seduces and then uses a strap on to take her revenge. It was hard to follow, and hard to understand at times because some of the sentences are either in French or are all "X"s. I would not recommend this book. If this book does become a movie, it would be rated XR.
I only made it 50% of the way through this book and was completely repulsed. During the parts that I read, a grown woman had an orgasm while having very graphic thoughts about this boy, this little boy was molested, there is a female character that was raped takes revenge and seduces and then uses a strap on to take her revenge. It was hard to follow, and hard to understand at times because some of the sentences are either in French or are all "X"s. I would not recommend this book. If this book does become a movie, it would be rated XR.
October 18, 2017
I found this book very difficult to read . . . not because of the subject matter but, because it was hard to follow all the twists and turns between characters and times. After awhile, I had to re-read parts and then keep notes on who was who and where in place and time they were.
I actually gave up reading before the half-way mark.
I actually gave up reading before the half-way mark.
November 1, 2017
Thank you Goodreads for sending me this book. I must admit I did find this book heavy going. It is a long and complex story about the life of one man. Covering religion and sexual themes the book is often intense and graphic. It will not be to everyone’s taste, but there will be many who enjoy it.
August 12, 2017
Couldn't have asked for more. This book is excellent. Every scene ends with a climactic moment, always moving the story forward in a slightly different direction than previously expected. I've never seen this done before or so cleverly.
October 31, 2017
From the start of receiving this book, the cover stands out. Great art work and this would draw your eye on a display.
I managed about 20% of the book.
Unfortunately I just got lost as to what,where and who I was following in the story.
I felt it was too jaunted with no flow.
Please don’t let this put you off as it may be for you.
I managed about 20% of the book.
Unfortunately I just got lost as to what,where and who I was following in the story.
I felt it was too jaunted with no flow.
Please don’t let this put you off as it may be for you.
April 5, 2017
“PrimoDeus” Considerant,
How could I get you to read “PrimoDeus”? On the surface, it appears a simple story about a 1987 parish visit by three church ladies: two middle-aged, with one skinny to bone and the other lush to fat, while the third is a sexy vamp just recently arrived into her maturity, if not years behind her sexuality.
“PrimoDeus” is more than just a meeting of a church triumvirate around the kitchen table of the duQuesne household, there to sniff out a foster mother’s rearing of a toddling boy, whom she has recently molested. In the process of unraveling this secret, each triumvir reveals her own unresolved traumas with childhood flirtation, molestation and frustration in a complex of flashbacks that fill out the spare 30 minutes of their parish visit. But that’s just the surface.
As they discuss the child’s welfare, the toddler’s own story over the subsequent 30 years of his life is also revealed, disgorged by his personal demon in the guise of a vulture on the eaves of a dilapidated desert home. Unbeknownst to him in 2017, the youngest of the church ladies (the 20-year-old now grown into her 50's) has accompanied him into the desert, there to resolve the open-ended questions of her own life, with both of them accompanied by the teenaged granddaughter of his foster mother and the bone-thin church lady. Yeah, it all very cleverly wraps around.
Beneath it all, another important story evolves, based on a child’s interpretation of events within the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, as it relates to his own molestation. Are rape in dark places, incest in lonely places and molestation in safe places enough to get you to read this book? Well, there’s more, an unconventional climax that travels throughout the story ~ well underneath the surface, hardly noticeable and never suspected ~ until it erupts across the page and leaves you feeling The End.
Most Sincerely,
John LaChance
Author “PrimoDeus”
How could I get you to read “PrimoDeus”? On the surface, it appears a simple story about a 1987 parish visit by three church ladies: two middle-aged, with one skinny to bone and the other lush to fat, while the third is a sexy vamp just recently arrived into her maturity, if not years behind her sexuality.
“PrimoDeus” is more than just a meeting of a church triumvirate around the kitchen table of the duQuesne household, there to sniff out a foster mother’s rearing of a toddling boy, whom she has recently molested. In the process of unraveling this secret, each triumvir reveals her own unresolved traumas with childhood flirtation, molestation and frustration in a complex of flashbacks that fill out the spare 30 minutes of their parish visit. But that’s just the surface.
As they discuss the child’s welfare, the toddler’s own story over the subsequent 30 years of his life is also revealed, disgorged by his personal demon in the guise of a vulture on the eaves of a dilapidated desert home. Unbeknownst to him in 2017, the youngest of the church ladies (the 20-year-old now grown into her 50's) has accompanied him into the desert, there to resolve the open-ended questions of her own life, with both of them accompanied by the teenaged granddaughter of his foster mother and the bone-thin church lady. Yeah, it all very cleverly wraps around.
Beneath it all, another important story evolves, based on a child’s interpretation of events within the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, as it relates to his own molestation. Are rape in dark places, incest in lonely places and molestation in safe places enough to get you to read this book? Well, there’s more, an unconventional climax that travels throughout the story ~ well underneath the surface, hardly noticeable and never suspected ~ until it erupts across the page and leaves you feeling The End.
Most Sincerely,
John LaChance
Author “PrimoDeus”
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