Carol’s review of Shame the Devil > Likes and Comments

I recently recommended this book (and the author's other books) to a friend who loves reading reviews on GR before diving in! She read your comment and asked me if the book was homophobic. I told her, Absolutely not!!

I agree with so much of your review, but you lost me on the second half.

(cont.) If I remember correctly, the character, Stephen was NOT gay. He was a sexual predator who looked for victims, who—for whatever reason—could be easily manipulated. He even says at one point that gay men were easier than widows because they were so afraid of being killed for their sexual orientation at the time that when they found someone who identified with them, they would cling to that person. I remember this because it was the first chapter that was in Stephen’s point of view and it truly shocked me. I got the complete opposite feeling about the author. She seemed to be making a strong argument against the Puritans and their hypocritical religious ways (as you suggested), but also an argument for the injustices that were done against anyone who was not heterosexual. Just my opinion. That was one of the reasons I really loved this book.