Goodreads Book Review - Faith For Beginners

Faith for Beginners: A Novel by Aaron Hamburger

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


At first this book went really slow and I had a hard time catching its rhythm, but as I got it I grew to really like it. I really got into it although I felt detached somewhat from the characters, but I thought that you would get to know them better. However, you didn't. To me it felt disconnected and like a skipping record. There wasn't any impacting change in the main characters. The ended left much to be desired. I actually thought there was to be some big revelation and that is why the chapters were dwindling down, but there wasn't. I don't know if the writing style was so different I missed something or if it just failed as a book. I will admit however that I was compelled enough to try to figure out what was going on that I read more than half of the book in one sitting. Instead of my usual mourning of the end of a book and the end of my relationship with the characters, I was just confused. I tried to sleep on it before writing this, due to my agitation, but it is fired up by writing this. I just feel like I missed the point of the book and if it is what I think it is, there was too much deviation for my tastes to make that point and not enough color. Oh, and the players in this, they were almost fleshed out to be real people, but they didn't make it over the line and the characters stayed just that, characters. You didn't feel for them. I actually felt more for the homos Jeremy screwed with like they were toys because they were fleshed out enough to get hooked without conflicting detail. You also gained more insight into their being due to others' treatment of them than from the interaction of the major players. The organization too. Giving a chapter or two to other characters like the last one, really? I'm so agitated that I bought this. It had such great reviews in my old book club and I need to buy a full priced selection to meet requirements. Never again with the book clubs! Sticking to Amazon.com. I wouldn't normally go on like this, but I'm really irritated.



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