A review by maric83ava
Prayers the Devil Answers by Sharyn McCrumb, Candace Thaxton

3.0

I wondered if Sharyn McCrumb actually wrote this, or allowed an aspiring author to ghost-write this entry in the Ballad series. The general "feel" was there -- ordinary, salt-of-the-earth folk dealing with the biggest and tiniest of life's complications. And the plot, when we finally got there, was a stellar choice. But this novel suffered from a glacial pace and repetitionrepetitionrepetition. As if she came up with three or four great sentences to say the same thing and couldn't decide which one to use, so she used them all. I will read anything by McCrumb; she's one of my favorite authors but the workmanship of this one disappointed me.