Review: Unforgiving Almighty
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 27, 2014
<i>E-Galley provided by Author for review purposes.  No remuneration was exchanged and all opinions presented herein are my own except as noted.</i>I really liked the characters of Lucy and Sawyer, or at least their potential.  As characters in a short story they can’t be terribly well-developed. Everyone else is kind of sketched in.I felt the story’s religious undertones were a little pushy.  If you are sensitive to religious issues this might bug you.  I am not a big fan of angels as paranormal characters — what and who they are is too confusing, too wrapped up in religion.Yes, there’s sex and swearing but they are presented as sinful acts.  Also, a merciless “almighty” who refuses to extend a hand to save one of  “his” angels (all of whom seem to be men) because of a technicality doesn’t seem very worship worthy to me.  This aspect of the story really kept me from enjoying it.Giving up your safety for that of someone you love is an important theme in the novel.  But, it should lead to some sort of redemption, right? I guess whether it does is a matter of interpretation.This is an interesting idea, but I get the impression that the writer is skirting what she rally wants to express and timidly approaching her story.  I just didn’t get the zing I have experienced with Marisa’s other work.  She is certainly a writer to keep an eye on!