Eliza Wood

This is a difficult book for me to review. I wanted to love it. I have great respect for the in-depth research Eliza Wood put into the facts. But, for me, it just didn't work as fiction.

The characters lacked development. They were very one-dimensional, used more as pawns to convey facts than to lead us on an adventure. The fictional story was buried beneath endless pages of the type of text you'd expect in nonfiction. For me, the fictional aspect felt like an afterthought, something contrived as a way to convey the author's intended argument.

I do think, if the attempt at fiction was eliminated, this would work beautifully as nonfiction. I was far more captivated by the facts and the author's spotlight on problematic religious text than I was by the attempt to create a fiction thriller.… (mehr)