We meet Demeter, a mother who will go to any lengths, no matter the cost, to retrieve her daughter Persephone from Hades’ clutches. Now, don’t get it twisted, I don’t mean I cringed because the genre has outlived its popularity and no longer appeals to me. The most recent time he beat her, she decided that she could no longer stay with him, and sought out help at one of Mary’s shelters. Everyone in this book either conveniently is in love with Electa or conveniently is aware of the Sparatca ploy.

Now she believes it’s her mission in life to share her story with others to help them find redemption, too. For a decade, between the ages of roughly ten and twenty, Mary’s life was filled with abuse and other bad things happening to her, some of which were a result of bad choices she made.

The author invents a number of statistics that are completely unrealistic about Abstinence only education at a senate hearing and rambles on for an extended period concerning the politics surrounding it.

I am a strong believer and do agree with the previous statement, but the way it was applied seemed naive. The one thing Kingsbury did well in this book is tell a horrific story of sexual abuse clearly, but without any graphic details.It's Terry Hong, from The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center blog, wrote: "can’t-turn-away riveting [. Shannon’s magic sleep gift sends her dreaming of worlds and the events all around her that will send her on a mission to rescue Rhiannon’s father and bring salvation to the people of Partholon from the wrath of Fomorians.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Telling her life tory to Emma, a young, suicidal mother in her shelter, and leading her to a spirtual and lovinving relationship with Jesus is definitely a "Divine" read! It was interesting and really easy to read but not because of the vocabulary but more of the quick pace of the storyline. I found this whole book pretty farfetched and kind of hoky, not because it was very much Christian fiction but because of how stupid Mary and Emma both were when they should have known better and learned from their mistakes.She carries you through the life of Mary Madison with such feeling as it is converyed to a young mother struggling to find her way though a similar lifestyle until she finds her way with the love of the Lord. Ideas of justice and defence are explored in the figures of Athena, Sekhmet and Kali, and the final chapter on compassion and salvation uncovers links between Isis, Mary, Tara and Guanyin. However, a case of mistrust between Alanna’s fiancé Carolan and Lady Rhiannon results into her confessing her true identity to her closest friends. Lysander was the only one I enjoyed reading about because we had a singular sprinkling of character development, then he went and married 17-year-old Electa as a 30-YEAR-OLD MAN and I felt my last dregs of hope die violently.

The protagonist Electa steel is strong willed and her flaws are clear and well thought out unlike so many protagonists in YA novels these days. The map was all well and good (although isolated “havens” where one has defected from a totalitarian society - it becomes excruciatingly obvious Woodman has a love for THG), but it’s just. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In the beginning I thought I wasn’t going to enjoy this book as it seemed a lot like The Selection only with the Roman Empire twist on it.sense, but it's all wrapped just too awfully darned tidily for my I-was-an-English-major self: and then the love of Jesus saved them!