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A review by krisz
Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins by James Runcie
1.0
I'm sorry, but no. I didn't like it. It irritated me no end.
I was surprised that it's not a novel but a short story collection, but that's no deal breaker of course.
What surprised me more is that by description this priest seemed 50+ (I guess like the writer). Slow to move, slow to think. Then the name... sigh... Sidney, like the mouse in the Amelia Jane children's story. Now that was difficult not to consider. Correction: impossible.
Then the romance... no, the priest and priestess are not in love. Neither of them. They pretend, and they talk about it. But this isn't enough :(
And the plots. Well, who hasn't heard them? Honestly. Who didn't see any of them coming?
I see that there is a TV series based on the stories, I guess that sells the books too, otherwise there's really no reason for anyone to waste precious time on these scribbles. Seriously. Go read Dickens, Austen, Dostoevsky, whatever.
I was surprised that it's not a novel but a short story collection, but that's no deal breaker of course.
What surprised me more is that by description this priest seemed 50+ (I guess like the writer). Slow to move, slow to think. Then the name... sigh... Sidney, like the mouse in the Amelia Jane children's story. Now that was difficult not to consider. Correction: impossible.
Then the romance... no, the priest and priestess are not in love. Neither of them. They pretend, and they talk about it. But this isn't enough :(
And the plots. Well, who hasn't heard them? Honestly. Who didn't see any of them coming?
I see that there is a TV series based on the stories, I guess that sells the books too, otherwise there's really no reason for anyone to waste precious time on these scribbles. Seriously. Go read Dickens, Austen, Dostoevsky, whatever.