Reviews - Heretics Anonymous

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With clever balancing of characters with extremely diverse ideas about god & religion, this YA novel delights with teenage angst, young love, and coming-of-age themes. Entertaining & a quick read. 4.5 stars

akiha's review against another edition

3.0

Rhaaaa. Un peu déçue dans l'ensemble, je mettrais un 2,5 arrondi à 3 car j'ai appris un peu plus de trucs sur l'aspect religieux de l'utilitarisme. En fait, je m'attendais à plus de discussions théologiques je crois et au final ça reste juste un YA lambda d'ados colériques. Les autres religions du club sont quasiment toutes survolées. Et même le coup de foudre me semble un peu mal présenté. Puis tout se passe trop bien, les personnages secondaires ne sont vraiment pas assez développés (Max par exemple avait du potentiel comique à fond, mais rien n'est fait) et même le angry teenager c'est bon, on le connait quoi. Bref, pas convaincue du tout par le bouquin, je m'attendais à mieux '-'. Peut-être un peu trop teen encore une fois.

brandie_shanae's review against another edition

5.0

This was a book that was hard to put down. The main character "Michael" is an atheist who was pretty much forced to go to a Catholic school. I know what your thinking an atheist attending a catholic school???? What the heck... But when he goes to school he meets multiple people who are not Catholic at all. Like Avi for instance is Jewish, but he is also gay. There is also a girl named Eden who believes in multiple gods. So a group start a society call Heretics Anonymous. This book was definitely a page turner that challenges certain facts about faith and rules that contradict themselves. The Heretics Anonymous group were playing devils advocate in majority of the book, which was awesome because reading this book it makes you wonder and want to find out more about your religion and seeing certain aspects that do not seem to add up and leaves questions in your head that completely blows your mind. I am so glad I read this book it was a breath of fresh air and also it displays how even though in this world there are many religions....we as a people are still connected regardless on what we believe and do not believe.

gracemessi's review against another edition

4.0

This was a really fun read, and I loved that it also dealt with serious topics! The diversity in it made it more interesting, and the messages in it are well portrayed. However, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Michael as the narrator, and I do wish Max and Eden had been fleshed as characters a bit more.

brianna_4pawsandabook's review against another edition

3.0

3.5 Stars!

Full review to come. This was a slow start for me. I didn't really like the main character at the beginning, but growing up really conservative (not catholic, but a lot of the same principles),I quickly related to what the kids were going through. I really liked Eden, but a lot of the characters I didn't really like, and I feel like Max showed a lot of the signs of someone who was Autistic, but it didn't come right out and say that.