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A review by pbanditp
The Undertaker's Daughter: A Novel of Supernatural Horror by John James Minster
4.0
Anna lives in the family funeral home and dead bodies is something she has grown up with and is used to. What she isn’t used to is all the attention she gets when her best friend Naomi gives her a complete style makeover. Timmy has always found Anna special and writes a song about her for the band that he plays in.
New love leads to jealousy, assault and punishment which spirals downwards to revenge. Bullies can not be easily dissuaded so Anna and Naomi take extreme measures with an ancient religious ritual. Is it God that answers their prayer or something much darker?
The story is heavy on the romance and religious history with the last quarter of the book getting brutally and graphically violent. I felt that the characters were exceptionally religious and having not grown up in that type of environment I found it fascinating yet hard to swallow. Anna is Christian and Naomi is Jewish and they both are incredibly knowledgeable on their faith.
While the story got out of my comfort zone into romance and religion, the overall plot was compelling and I had to see where this ended up.
New love leads to jealousy, assault and punishment which spirals downwards to revenge. Bullies can not be easily dissuaded so Anna and Naomi take extreme measures with an ancient religious ritual. Is it God that answers their prayer or something much darker?
The story is heavy on the romance and religious history with the last quarter of the book getting brutally and graphically violent. I felt that the characters were exceptionally religious and having not grown up in that type of environment I found it fascinating yet hard to swallow. Anna is Christian and Naomi is Jewish and they both are incredibly knowledgeable on their faith.
While the story got out of my comfort zone into romance and religion, the overall plot was compelling and I had to see where this ended up.