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reasonpassion's review
5.0
even virtue can turn horrific
The beauty of Dalglish's writing is his ability to take huge ideas and deliver them through fiction so the reader isn't overwhelmed. He also isn't shy about going places that are just plain messed up. Taking heroes and turning them into villains, taking villains and turning them heroes, these may sound like tropes but in the hands of Dalglish they become incredible journeys of discovering the limits and depths of human imagination and faith. This is a story of values twisted by ego into caricatures of goodness. And through it all the characters we've loved continue to push forward in hope.
The beauty of Dalglish's writing is his ability to take huge ideas and deliver them through fiction so the reader isn't overwhelmed. He also isn't shy about going places that are just plain messed up. Taking heroes and turning them into villains, taking villains and turning them heroes, these may sound like tropes but in the hands of Dalglish they become incredible journeys of discovering the limits and depths of human imagination and faith. This is a story of values twisted by ego into caricatures of goodness. And through it all the characters we've loved continue to push forward in hope.
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