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THE END

Review to come.

It's crazy how this priest is SO against believing in demons. He is willing to believe in ANYTHING: telekinesis, pyrokinesis, ESP, etc. etc. etc. as if it is ABSOLUTE scientific fact, rather than demons.

Watching them steadily ascending the staircase, Chris felt deeply and strangely moved. Here comes my big brother to beat your brains in, creep! It was a feeling, she thought, much like that. She could feel her heart begin to beat faster.

And now your urge is to hide your children when priests come around. This book's biggest weakness, IMO. Looking at it with 2023 eyes is doubly disturbing.

He unbuttoned the right sleeve of his starched white shirt and rolled it up, exposing a matting of fine brown hairs on a bulging, thickly muscled forearm.

She nodded and started opening the door, and it was then that Karras felt it: a chill, tugging warning. It scraped through the bloodstream like particles of ice.

His voice was cradling, stripping her of burden, as his powerful hands clasped gently together. They were large and yet sensitive: veined Michelangelos. Chris felt her gaze somehow drawn to them instantly.

Uh-huh.

Well, here's the scene where she masturbates with the crucifix, or probably it's more accurate to say she is raped with it, and she turns her head fully around.

I have to say the combination of The Catholic Church and sex/rape involving children in this book, in 2023, is making me sickened and probably not in the way Blatty was intending. This priest/child/rape combo is not a good look in hindsight.

Oh, yes, the murderous, dangerous potheads. LOL

More meat to this book than I thought.

Karras glanced up and felt aching dismay, felt the soft crushing weight, press of lead, press of bone, as he recognized the priest who had come to him recently for counseling, the one who could not make friends.