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Summary: Potential shows but this book doesn't quite meet the mark.
Review: I think the Good Sister is a writer for sure and posessing talent. This book however is lacking while it has intriguing and suspensful places - it focuses on frankly too much on the weight of one of the prime characters and fills in the usual stereotypical view. I believe Sister will produce better work as she goes along but this isn't a book I could feel good about reccomending.
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Summary: If you're fat or love someone who is, avoid this book.
Review: I'm fat (212 pounds) and I found the author's attitude toward fat people, as revealed by her treatment of Angela Bowers, deeply offensive. Sister Carol Anne O'Marie was kinder to the rapist than to this abused fat woman! I found the author's evident hatred of fat people all the more sickening because I'm Catholic and she's a nun. This was my 5th Sister Helen mystery and it's going to be my last.
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Summary: One of the best in the series!
Review: I've read all of the Sister Mary Helen stories and feel that this is one of her best. Even though we know who the killer is up front all of the characters are so interesting i just wanted to continue reading to learn more about them (esp. Angelica Bowers and her mother; i would have liked the book to focus more on that relationship, but that's only a very minor criticism). The writing style is very easy to read, the story was very interesting, excellent character study, and a pretty good mystery. All in all, this book is a winner! Im looking forward to the next Sister Mary Helen mystery!
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Summary: I don't need poles or boots
Review: This was my first and only reading of the series. I am compelled to give this book 3 stars lest the author, SISTER Carol Anne O'Marie, come after my knuckles with a ruler or talk to her "friends in high places" regarding lengthening my Purgatory time (& I'm not talking here about the ski resort in Colorado! ;)What we have here is a pair of inquisitive (note that I did not say "busy-body") nuns of a certain age wandering around San Francisco in the middle of an investigation into serial murders of similarly aged women. The core "mystery" of the book is really no mystery. What is mysterious is why Sr. Carole Anne employed the silly riddle of "Hound Dog." If a recovering man can say "Hound" he most certainly could say "Elvis!" But the book has its moments. The reference to Ozanian liquidation is clever: "Tillie seemed to sputter and shrivel like Oz's Wicked Witch of the West into a sobbing heap." And so is the prayer for some "Divine interception" during a 49'ers football game.
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