The whole \”it\’s not a religious or historical novel\” excuse simply doesn\’t work here. This is the equivalent of a fiction novel taking place in 1950s Soviet Moscow, and all the inhabitants of the Kremlin are Libertarian Capitalists and attend Muslim Mosques on their lunch breaks. This isn\’t one of those \”slight details\” that only anal people care about. It\’s such a drastically erroneous oversight that it hugely impacts the believability of the fictional world the author is trying to immerse us in. He literally could have read ONE single paragraph from any article or encyclopedia entry on religion in this era and culture and avoided this. This is just insultingly lazy on the part of the author. Catholics? With Rosaries? And who say \”Mass\”? And have the sacrament of Confession…? All things that would have caused a person in the United Provinces to be severely punished, banished, or burned at the stake. I wish I could list them all… - The unbearable Sherlockinsh psychic cliches (\”I see there\’s yellow on your shoe… clearly you had a sandwich, which means you and therefore you must be a professional boxer.\” \”What? wow! how did you know that!\”) - Apparently the totally protestant and Calvinist United Provinces who outlawed and banished all Catholicism is now filled with…. There are SO many horribly bad things about this book. Clearly Turton was a one hit wonder, with his 7 1/2 Deaths success (which was a very good book, but mainly because of it\’s novelty). This book was one of the worst I\’ve ever read.
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