Stan Blackburn’s Reviews > Peace Like a River > Status Update

Interesting story and characters, but the religious parallelism and prose are tiresome. Enger writes using a western dialect that I find annoying and cumbersome to read at times. His sentence construction slows the narrative. For instance he often writes like this: "This lovely warlike anthem Dad sang . . . ", giving many of his sentences a passive voice feel. I do not agree with all the praise this book receives.