Review: Thoroughly Enjoyable Until the Last Chapter
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2013
PRAY FOR US SINNERS is a nice, tight little mystery with what I found to be a quite unexpected climax, which I certainly appreciated.  I purchased this Kindle book because I especially enjoyed its prequel, SAINTS PRESERVE US, and the very flawed--like all of us!--Catholic family which are its central characters.  Unfortunately, in PRAY FOR US SINNERS' very last chapter, an epilogue of sorts, the reader learns that the main character, Ronnie, has unapologetically made a particularly poor decision which includes behavior inappropriate from a Catholic standpoint, not to mention its being a rather illogical development according to the story's details up to that point.  This ruins the book for Catholic readers who often search high and low for recreational reading that respects a Catholic lifestyle as something normal, instead of something psychologically and/or socially deranged.  (The disappointing bits of the final chapter may be the inspiration for the book's title, though, I suppose.)  I guess the author simply couldn't once again resist the pressure to cater to the whims of the secular culture.I am especially unhappy that, because of the last chapter's inclusion of new details concerning Ronnie's lifestyle decision, I cannot in good conscience recommend this book to any of my close friends (or their teen-aged children), as I so enthusiastically did SAINTS PRESERVE US.There were a few copy and continuity errors, but otherwise, I don't think there is anything to excite the grammar police.