Garden of Faith: A Novel

I reckon this book is not bad. . . considering that it was written by a priest (or "pastor" or something like that). Obviously, with those author credentials you would expect overt religiosity, and indeed it's there. However, unless you object to that sort of thing (and lots of people would), the story is otherwise reasonably well done. It really concludes that the relationships among a group of women can provide a support that is far stronger than many other forces. It's a good book in the sense that it doesn't give simple answers to all the difficult questions.
The one thing that annoyed me was the author's frequent use of a persons role to refer to them rather than their name, e.g. the young preacher went into the room. . This book show more is a sequel to what reviewers seem to think is a better book: Friendship Cake. I think I'd like to read that one too. show less

Not great, not bad. Somewhat repetitive in its themes.