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PrimoDeus
AMERICAN REVIEWS What if the Anti-Christ is more to be pitied than feared? That is the question raised by the central character in this transcendent novel. No less than an in-depth character study of eccentrics (each of whom is stripped bare, lie by lie, from when the reader first meets them to when each of them dies), “PrimoDeus” is a spellbinding tale of sexual tension and biblical portent, as well as a vehicle for some ‘eerie heebie-jeebies’ regarding the life of Beaulyn deFaux, a defrocked priest on the last night of his long death, thirty years in coming. – Burlington Arts Review (January, 2017) Ambitious in scope and sweeping in inclusion, “PrimoDeus” is a gripping, exploratory character drama with biblically high stakes. The text features many literary devices that give the writing an epic feel. Imagery is vivid and fully realized, allowing for vacillations in scenes and time jumps. Chapters are structured in a play-like format, with different acts and interludes breaking up particularly difficult moments of tension and exposition. This arrangement adds to the epic nature of the work and allows the text to grow and develop naturally. Both hugely epic and inherently relatable, “PrimoDeus” is a thrilling exploration regarding the ravages of time. – Kirkus Reviews (June, 2017) “PrimoDeus” is gratifyingly complex, akin to a mystery novel, such as “The Da Vinci Code.” The manner each scene is presented ensures that the ultimate climax is unpredictable, even to the best deductive minds. The story has short arcs, medium to long-range arcs, and an arc that spins itself into an epiphany, that moment when the reader satisfactorily resolves the central theme in his own mind. This novel is a thinking-man’s book, where virtually all the characters are women, sad and besotted creatures who live and love in the evolution of one Beaulyn deFaux, the Miracle-Priest, Son of God, the Anti-Christ. – Amazon Book Reviews (May, 2018) Buckle down for a wild ride. “PrimoDeus” explores the mental state of the Anti-Christ before the End of Days. Is Beaulyn deFaux the Anti-Christ, or isn’t he? Is the Anti-Christ our own creation? Long-buried secrets in the lives of the major characters, depleted by their own anguish and self-serving denials, distort their present realities and thrust them in bizarre interactions that, eventually, allow the readers to gauge for themselves the truth surrounding the defrocked priest. Some of the themes cover sensitive subjects and may trigger a sense of revulsion, anger or powerlessness in introspective readers. By the same token, empathetic and insightful narration on those scenes will help the reader understand that the ordeals, experienced by these characters, can make it possible for them to grieve and recover from their own comparable traumas. - The L.A. Chronicle (May, 2018)
560 pages, Paperback
Published September 20, 2019
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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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