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I'M ONLY A THIRD OF THE WAY THROUGH THIS BOOK.

Will this horror ever end?

Good thing I'm snarking this for my fans, otherwise I'm not sure I'd be able to stick it out. The characters in this are far more horrible and loathsome than in Quest for Forgiveness, and the main character is set up as a Mary Sue while being A PUSHY, OBNOXIOUS, TERRIBLY-BEHAVED CHILD.

I'M ONLY A THIRD OF THE WAY THROUGH THIS BOOK.

Will this horror ever end?

Good thing I'm snarking this for my fans, otherwise I'm not sure I'd be able to stick it out. The characters in this are far more horrible and loathsome than in Quest for Forgiveness, and the main character is set up as a Mary Sue while being A PUSHY, OBNOXIOUS, TERRIBLY-BEHAVED CHILD.

So far, this book is fascinating. It's one of those books that is just good reading. Good stories, good characters, solid writing. It's a joy to read.

Part 3, in which we get our first moment of sermonizing and Morgan continues to be a really unpleasant person: http://unpublishedforareason.blogspot...

After reading Quest for Forgiveness and HATING it, I am going to have some fun with this one. I'm snarking it chapter by chapter on my blog. Every week I'll post a link on here to the week's blog. Feel free to follow along.

First two:
http://unpublishedforareason.blogspot...
and
http://unpublishedforareason.blogspot...

Well, as far as trashy true crime books, this is pretty boring and poorly written so far. I mean, we're not talking Quest for Forgiveness poorly written, but it's pretty sloppy.

Some people read trashy romance novels. I read trashy true crime books.

While this is more *interesting* than my previous novel, it's not terribly enjoyable. The character's distinct voice somehow does nothing to tell us about him, and I'm floundering a little bit for meaning in the whole thing. Maybe it'll pick up.

Oh, thank God for something interesting to read after like a week of that awful awful book.

Thank goodness I'm near the end of this. This book just gets more and more ridiculous. Apparently an American pop star can stroll into an Iraqi home full of people who openly want to murder her, with a single bodyguard, insult their religion and their country, HIT THEM IN THE FACE, and then leave with absolutely zero consequences, personally or politically.

This author is completely incapable of thinking from anyone else's point of view or giving any character a unique voice.

What's worse than a terrible writer writing a courtroom scene? A terrible writer writing flirty jokes.

OK, we're out of the trial part, which is nice. Favorite line so far: "Robert wanted to help him, but he realized Ethan was mentally ill." This revelation came to us out of the blue, as Ethan had been perfectly healthy up until that point. Nor is Robert really basing this on anything but the fact that Ethan seems sad.

I keep reading parts of it out loud to my siblings and we laugh about it together.

So far this may be one of the worst Christian books I have ever read. I'm in the middle of a section about a trial right now and it is hilariously awful, clearly written by somebody who has no idea how impartiality works or that it could be a good thing.