Title: Religion Wars
Product review: I have read a good twenty Cookson books at this point and all except one have warranted at least three stars till now. I had a hard time with this one. The subject matter did not really interest me as much as Cookson's usual choices. Besides being about a very poor, struggling family on Fifteen Streets, it focuses on the late 1800s/ early 1900s religious tensions between Catholics and Pentecostals.It has the usual dramatic twists that Cookson is famed for, but in this case they were predictable. There is the "upstart" struggling to better himself, good sibling versus bad, and a woman attempting to saddle a poor fellow with a bairn that isn't his.Unlike most Cookson stories, I never felt any rapport or kinship with any of the characters, However, in the end, one can read a bit of a moral in the story. Be careful what you wish for. It can often come true, but with strings attached.
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