Review: Too many extremely involved subplots
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2012
I have revised my review after making myself go back to finish reading the book.There were still way too many extremely involved subplots, but the character development was a little more believeable.  As I said originally, the premise of this book is intriguing, I was all set and determined to love this book.  Some of the character development was a little jerky and the constant waffling by the Maria character was just downright annoying.  She is the main reason that I originally stopped reading the book, but there were other decisions made with characters that were puzzling or overly sterotyped: did we really need another athiest/pedophile priest?I have seen other reviewers say that reading the other books in the series brings everything together and that they were happier after seeing the work as a whole, so I will go on to the next book and see how it goes from there.  I am one of those people who HAS to finish a book, so the fact that I was ready to give up on it at 80% of the way though says a lot.  The last 20% of the book was much better than the middle of it was!I do have to say that I didn't notice very many typos, as another reviewer stated, though there were some statements that had me stuck for a while.  At one point, a woman is said to have a "thick African-American accent."  What the heck is that?  As an African-American, I wasn't aware of us having our own accent, we tend to go with the accent of the region we live in, so maybe the author meant African, or West African or something like that.  My Facebook friends and I have been pondering that for a couple of days now, lol.