A review by kdhanda
The Devoted by Blair Hurley

3.0

Intriguing premise: the loss of one's faith, in this case, Catholicism, and conversion to Zen Buddhism. However, the narrator falls for her Zen master who exploits her trust as a means to his control. Read this novel since I wanted to know what happens to those who lose their faith. The novel structure starts at the present and then we learn about what got the narrator to this point. The high point of the book were the passages and koans from Zen texts.