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Review title: Very disappointing
Product review: LIke many other reviewers, I had high hopes for this book. The theological/historical fiction genre is my favorite. I kept pushing through this book in hopes that at some point, I would fall in love with it. No such luck. I have a hard time believing that The Eight went through a rigorous editing process. There were so many irrelevant details and characters introduced that the plot got lost along the way. Every so often there would be a paragraph where I knew I was supposed to have an "a-ha!" moment, but they always fell flat. The author kept alluding to upcoming intensity ("if I had only known that the next 24 hours would bring such and such") so I'd keep reading and never find the shocking twist that was supposedly right around the corner. I really think this could have been a good book, but only if it was about 200 pages shorter and more efficiently told.
