Negative Positive
Title: This is one strange book.
Review: Although this book is sympathetic to women, poor and homeless people and critical of anti-women, patriarchal church leaders, showing what they're really all about, it's a weird book. Paretsky makes some very good points showing a lot of the contradictions in today's society, the problems of the homeless and of poor women and the lack of decent shelters, funding, decent health care and mental health care--but the points are almost lost in the strange story and weird religious allegories. The reader gets bogged down in all of this while Paretsky is making good points about society today and the need for solutions to these very real social problems.
Is the review positive or negative? 