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Title: Feel diminished after reading this book
Review: Received the book for Christmas. Should have read these reviews and then regifted it. Instead I wasted hours of my life that I will never get back. As an insipid harlequin romance it's bad enough, but the shallow, ignorant, cavalier way the author presumes to depict matters of faith repelled me. And I'm an ATHEIST. I can only imagine what a CATHOLIC would feel about monks assisting in mercy killings and committing adultery with the winking "disapproval" of the other monks. WTF?!?! And as a 41yo woman in a committed marriage who is mature enough to realize that struggling with boredom and disillusionment is part of the growth process and should be embraced, I squirmed in embarrassment at Jessie's immature, impulsive, selfish, completely vacuous manner of dealing with those same issues. Come on! This book feels like it was written by a 20yo trying to imagine what life will be like at 40.
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