Review: What to say...?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 6, 2014
The writing is supperb. The descriptions are wonderful. I hate the subject matter and that one would write a book where healing through sex is touted as fact disturbs me. The situations faced by young Adenine are horrific, yet they are not described with vulgarities nor are they salaciously  graphic. They are NOT glorified or esteemed as anything but acts of terror against this poor girl.We see the motivations for these acts...we revile the actions, and understand the unholy reasoning of the entire story.A true story: We lived in CA. One block away lived a woman, her husband and two daughters. The woman believed herself to be the latest High Priestess in a line of High Priestesses going back to Cleopatra - the original High Priestess of this ... organization? She espoused the belief that she was the only person who could take away the 'sins' of men by...You take it from there. Her husband was the "eunich" of the "court" and the "guardian" over the act of "forgiving" .She boasted of "forgiving" one thousand men. But the worst was that she was grooming her daughters to one day take her place. Suffice it to say, it's now all over, thank Heaven.This book is the story of a society gone horribly wrong...and the people who turn a blind eye so they don't have to stand up against this alternate, and now more powerful, group.I paraphrase - Evil succeeds when good men do nothing.If you read...be warned...and let it be a wake-up call. No, I won't be reading any of the rest of this series, nor any other book by this author. It's a shame...the writing is well done.