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dadof4kids's review against another edition
3.0
I liked the concept of the book - an historical novel about a priest with doubts who befriends the “heretic” John Milton in the 1600s - but until the last 30 pages, I couldn’t get all that interested. However, the ending of the book was really good.
ashleyyll's review
5.0
I LOVED this book. Kinda my ideal - richly detailed and imagined historical fiction coupled with earnest wrestling with God and encounters with inexplicable grace. Ah, if only all Christian fiction (or fiction with Christian over/undertones) were like this!
"Was this, too, what is called providence? Was this the secret - might I say underhanded - workings of God? That in spite of the good that was in me, for the sake of some yet greater good I should do evil? Words blur, lose their meaning, come out their opposite as soon as you invoke the terrible name of providence... I was - dear, dear God, still am! - all stuck with thorns... With no answer anywhere that does not make me bleed out another question."
"Was this, too, what is called providence? Was this the secret - might I say underhanded - workings of God? That in spite of the good that was in me, for the sake of some yet greater good I should do evil? Words blur, lose their meaning, come out their opposite as soon as you invoke the terrible name of providence... I was - dear, dear God, still am! - all stuck with thorns... With no answer anywhere that does not make me bleed out another question."